Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2025
From insideHPC
atNorth Leaders Recognized for Digital Infrastructure
Reykjavík, Iceland – March 21st, 2025 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced that two of their senior executives have received industry recognition…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: A New Explanation of Squid Camouflage
New research:
An associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, Deravi’s recently published paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C sheds new light on how squid use organs that essentially…From Schneier on Security
My Writings Are in the LibGen AI Training Corpus
The Atlantic has a search tool that allows you to search for specific works in the “LibGen” database of copyrighted works that Meta used to train its AI models. (The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but not the search…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Live from GTC 2025, Among the Crowds for the New AI Compute Landscape
In what is becoming an annual tradition for the @HPCpodcast, we present "Live from Nvidia GTC 2025," covering highlights from the Nvidia extravaganza with an AI-everywhere theme.
We review the conference, discussing everything…
From Schneier on Security
NCSC Releases Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline
The UK’s National Computer Security Center (part of GCHQ) released a timeline—also see their blog post—for migration to quantum-computer-resistant cryptography.
It even made The Guardian.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Responds to White House Request for Information to Inform a National AI Action Plan
In early February, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) published a Request for Information (RFI) on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence Action…
From insideHPC
SEEQC and Nvidia Report First Digital Quantum QPU-GPU Interface
During quantum day at Nvidia's GTC 2025 conference in San Jose, SEEQC and NVIDIA announced they have completed an end-to-end fully digital quantum-classical interface protocol demo between a QPU and GPU. The comppanies said this…
From Schneier on Security
Critical GitHub Attack
This is serious:
A sophisticated cascading supply chain attack has compromised multiple GitHub Actions, exposing critical CI/CD secrets across tens of thousands of repositories. The attack, which originally targeted the widely…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Ancient Egyptian Numerals
How data is represented is an important part of computer science. There are lots of ways numbers can be represented. Choosing a good representation can make things easier or harder to do. The Ancient Egyptians had a simple way…
From insideHPC
Writer Survey: 42% of C-Suite Say Gen AI Is Tearing Their Companies Apart
March 18, 2025, SAN FRANCISCO –Writer, a generative AI platform for the enterprise, today announced the release of its 2025 AI Survey: “Generative AI Adoption in the Enterprise.” The study, conducted in partnership with independent…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Expands Enterprise AI Portfolio with Blackwell Servers
San Jose, GTC 2025 – March 18, 2025 – Supermicro announced support for the new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on a range of workload-optimized GPU servers and workstations. Specifically optimized for the NVIDIA…
From insideHPC
Vertiv Unveils 4 AI Digital Infrastructure Systems
Columbus, Ohio [March 18, 2025] – Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a rovider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today announced the launch of four new systems designed to address challenges driven by the rapid growth of AI…
From Computational Complexity
A Failure to Communicate
With care you can explain major ideas and results in computational complexity to the general public, like the P v NP problem, zero-knowledge proofs, the PCP theorem and Shor's factoring algorithms in a way that a curious non-scientist…
From insideHPC
Crusoe Expands AI Data Center Campus in Abilene to 1.2 GW
SAN FRANCISCO / ABILENE, TX / March 18, 2025 / – Today Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, announced construction has begun on the next phase of its AI data center at the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene…
From insideHPC
Vultr Announces Early Availability of NVIDIA HGX B200
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced it offers early access to the NVIDIA HGX B200. Vultr Cloud GPU, accelerated by NVIDIA HGX B200, will provide training and inference…
From insideHPC
World Wide Technology Debuts oding Assistant, Digital Humans and Agents with NVIDIA AI
ST. LOUIS (March 18, 2025)– World Wide Technology (WWT), a technology solutions provider, today announced the launch of new AI solutions developed in collaboration with NVIDIA designed to enable faster, more secure adoption of…
From insideHPC
Luminary Cloud and nTop Announce Integraton with NVIDIA Physics AI
SAN MATEO, CA (March 18, 2024) – Luminary Cloud and nTop today announced a new integration with NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo that the companies say reduces physics-based AI design optimization from weeks or months to mere hours. By connecting…
From insideHPC
VAST Data Announces Enterprise-Ready AI Stack with NVIDIA DGX
SAN JOSE – March 18, 2025 – AI data platform company VAST Data today announced the availability of VAST InsightEngine starting with NVIDIA DGX systems and expanding to NVIDIA-Certified Systems from server providers. This combination…
From insideHPC
NetApp Announce Agentic AI Reasoning Solutions with NVIDIA
SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 18, 2025– Data infrastructure company NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today made an agentic AI announcement that taps the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. By collaborating with NVIDIA, NetApp intends to…
From Schneier on Security
Is Security Human Factors Research Skewed Towards Western Ideas and Habits?
Really interesting research: “How WEIRD is Usable Privacy and Security Research?” by Ayako A. Hasegawa Daisuke Inoue, and Mitsuaki Akiyama:
Abstract: In human factor fields such as human-computer interaction (HCI) and psychology…From Schneier on Security
Improvements in Brute Force Attacks
New paper: “GPU Assisted Brute Force Cryptanalysis of GPRS, GSM, RFID, and TETRA: Brute Force Cryptanalysis of KASUMI, SPECK, and TEA3.”
Abstract: Key lengths in symmetric cryptography are determined with respect to the brute…From Computational Complexity
My Post-Covid Post
I had been meaning to write a post-COVID post for a while, but
a) Are we finally post COVID? (I think so)
b) Are the long term affects of COVID (society not health) known yet?
However, Lance wrote a post-COVID post (see here)Random…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Speeding up C++ code with template lambdas
Let us consider a simple C++ function which divides all values in a range of integers: void divide(std::span<int> i, int d) { for (auto& value : i) { value /= d; } } If the divisor d is known at compile-time, this function can…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: SQUID Band
A bagpipe and drum band:
SQUID transforms traditional Bagpipe and Drum Band entertainment into a multi-sensory rush of excitement, featuring high energy bagpipes, pop music influences and visually stunning percussion!
From insideHPC
Will Programmers Become Unnecessary? HPC-AI Researchers at MIT Report Programming Advance
We hear talk of AI’s growing programming prowess to the point that it could, extrapolating things out, come to dominate base-level ....
The post Will Programmers Become Unnecessary? HPC-AI Researchers at MIT Report Programming…
From insideHPC
Pasqal Quantum Available on Azure
Paris – March 13, 2025 – Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, today announced an integration with Microsoft’s services for cloud-based access to Pasqal’s technology. Microsoft Azure Quantum cloud service customers…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
From insideHPC
HPC: ISC 2025 Registration Is Now Open
March 14, 2025 — Early bird registration is now open for the annual ISC conference, to be held Tuesday-Friday, June 10-13 in Hamburg. The conference organizations announced discounted fees are available until April 23. Here’s…
From insideHPC
ISC 2025 Midweek Keynote Explores New Climate Forecasting Paradigms
HAMBURG, Germany, March 14, 2025 – The ISC 2025 conference has announced that climate scientist and meteorologist Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens will deliver a keynote address for ISC’s midweek keynote on Wednesday, June 11. In his
…
From insideHPC
Agenda Update for HPC User Forum, April 8-9 in Santa Fe
March 14, 2025 — Registration is open for the spring HPC User Forum, to be held in Santa Fe, NM and hosted by HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research: https://www.hpcuserforum.com or directly at: https://www.hpcuserforum…