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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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TACC Podcast Looks at AI and Water Management
It's about letting the AI help us be better decision makers. And it helps us move towards answering, discussing, and exploring the questions that are most important...
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Updating the SC18 Technical Program to Inspire the Future
In this special guest feature, SC18 Technical Program Chair David Keyes from KAUST writes that important changes are coming to the world's biggest HPC conference...
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Supercomputing Better Tools for Long-Term Crop Prediction
Researchers are using the Blue Waters supercomputer to create better tools for long-Term crop prediction. “We built this new tool to bridge these two types of crop...
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MIT helps move Neural Nets back to Analog
MIT researchers have developed a special-purpose chip that increases the speed of neural-network computations by three to seven times over its predecessors, while...
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HPC Processor Competition Heats Up
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World explores efforts to diversify the HPC processor market. "With the arrival of Arm and now...
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Gen-Z Consortium Announces the Public Release of Its Core Specification 1.0
Today the Gen-Z Consortium released the Gen-Z Core Specification 1.0 on its website. As an open systems interconnect, Gen-Z is designed to provide memory semantic...
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HPC System Management: Scheduling to Optimize Infrastructure
Whether the application is floating-point intensive, integer based, uses a lot of memory, has significant I/O requirements, or its widespread use is limited byHPC...
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TACC and DOD to Co-Develop Novel Computational Approaches
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide researchers with access to advanced computing resources...
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Google Cloud TPU Machine Learning Accelerators now in Beta
John Barrus writes that Cloud TPUs are available in beta on Google Cloud Platform to help machine learning experts train and run their ML models more quickly. "Cloud...
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Optalysys Optical Processing Achieves 90 percent energy savings for DNA Sequence Alignment
The GENESYS project applied Optalysys’s unique optical processing technology to perform large-scale DNA sequence alignment. "The collaboration with EI has beenOptalysys...
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CPU 24/7 Acquired by IAV GmbH for Automotive HPC Managed Services
HPC managed services provider CPU 24/7 has been acquired by IAV GmbH, a leading engineering services firm for the automotive industry. "We are very happy we found...
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Nominations open for PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2018
PRACE is once again seeking nominations for the Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2018. The award recognizes women in Europe who are breaking new barriers in science and...
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Reconstructing Nuclear Physics Experiments with Supercomputers
For the first time, scientists have used HPC to reconstruct the data collected by a nuclear physics experiment—an advance that could dramatically reduce the time...
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Big 3 Cloud Providers Join with Nsf to Support Data Science
"NSF’s participation with major cloud providers is an innovative approach to combining resources to better support data science research," said Jim Kurose, assistant...
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John Elmer Joins Nag Board of Directors
Today the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) in the UK announced the appointment of John Elmer to its Board of Directors. "I am delighted that John Elmer is joining...
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One Stop Systems Rolls Out High Bandwidth Nvme Ion Flash Storage Array
Today One Stop Systems introduced the new 2U Ion Accelerator Flash Storage Array. The new array offers flexible capacity while maintaining the high-bandwidth and...
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Dell Emc Steps up with Amd Epyc Servers For Hpc, Sdn, and the Edge
Today Dell EMC announced three new servers powered by AMD EPYC processors. "The Advanced High-Performance Computing Center at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville...
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Lightmatter Startup Funded to Accelerate AI with Optical Chip
Today and AI chip startup called Lightmatter announced that it has received $11 million in Series A funding to accelerate development of the industry’s first chip...
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Podcast: Supercomputing Better Semiconductors For Solar Energy
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to develop better semiconductors for solar engery. "Dr. Levine models the behavior caused by defects in materials, such...
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