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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Veteran Argonne Supercomputers Help Convert CO2 into Ethanol
By supercomputing standards, Argonne National Lab’s Bebop (1.75 terflops, stood up in 2017, bumped off the Top500 list after the June 2019 ranking) and Blues (stood...
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I Really Don’t Care About TCO … It’s RCO I am Worried About
In this sponsored post by Adam Marko, Director of Life Science Solutions – Panasas, Inc., we look at what we are calling Research Cost of Ownership (RCO) and the...
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Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast – ECP Leadership Discusses Highlights, Challenges, Impact
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is tasked with guiding the U.S. effort to build a “capable exascale ecosystem” by the early to...
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UCSD’s Dr. Larry Smarr Named Tech Evangelist at Kazuhm
August 19, 2020—Kazuhm, a developer of technology and tools for maximizing IT efficiency, today announced that Dr. Larry Smarr will provide support to the Kazuhm...
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Brightskies Deploys Open Source RTM Application for Easy Optimization across Multiple Architectures
In this sponsored post on behalf of Intel, we see that in today’s high-performance computing applications, many different pieces of hardware can perform data-centric...
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IBM Launches 7nm POWER10 CPU
IBM today announced a new IBM POWER10 CPU family, its first 7nm form factor platform, built with Samsung, designed for enterprise hybrid cloud computing with up...
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An Adaptive Platform for Converged HPC/AI Workloads
In this sponsored post from our friends over at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), we see that from many years of experience working with numerous customers, the company...
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AWS Announces GA of Quantum Development Environment
Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a development environment for exploring and designing quantum algorithms. AWS said...
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Panasas PanFS 8: Architectural Overview
Panasas has released this timely new white paper “Panasas PanFS 8: Architectural Overview.” The report takes a “breadth-first” tour of the architecture of the PanFS...
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MVAPICH, Altair, Arm DevSummit Announce Conference Agendas
Several organizations have released updates on upcoming conferences and user group meetings. Here’s a summary with links to further information. The MVAPICH User...
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Intel Optane Persistent Memory Tops IO500 List
Intel announced today that its Optane persistent memory (PMem), in combination with Intel’s open-source distributed asynchronous object storage (DAOS) solution,...
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Nissan Shifts to Oracle Cloud for CFD, 3D Visualization HPC Design Workloads
Oracle announced today that Nissan Motor Co. is migrating its on-premises engineering simulation HPC workloads to run on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Nissan...
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1st Student Cluster Competition Focusing on Racial Inclusion Slated for January
The inaugural Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition to include historically black and minority universities in the supercomputing challenge arena...
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Hyperion Research Invites Submissions for HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Hyperion Research is accepting submissions for the 16th round of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, to be announced at the SC20 (virtual) conference in November...
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Summit Takes Center Stage in GE Wind Power Study
Scientists at GE Research have been authorized by the U.S. Department of Energy to access Oak Ridge National Lab’s (ORNL) Summit supercomputer, the world second...
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Unify Your Analytics, and Keep Your Data Where It Suits You
In this sponsored post, Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing, believes that we need to stop our fixation with “data in one place.” The days...
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RadioFreeHPC: HPC Market Growth; Student Cluster Competition — Winter Classic Invitational
by RadioFreeHPC Podcast HPC Market Projected Growth It’s a few weeks since we recorded this episode so maybe things have changed, but as of the recording the HPC...
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Inspur NF5488A5 Breaks AI Server Performance Record in Latest MLPerf Benchmarks
San Jose, Aug. 5 – In the results released last week of MLPerf AI benchmark, Inspur NF5488A5 server set a new AI performance record in the Resnet50 training task...
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Panasas Offering Takes on Tiered HPC Storage Headaches, Automatically Adapts to Workload Changes
High performance storage vendor Panasas today released Dynamic Data Acceleration on its new PanFS parallel file system, a software feature designed to overcome...
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