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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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Interview: John Gustafson on the Evolution of Supercomputing
In this MacObserver podcast, John Martellaro discusses the evolution of HPC with John Gustafson, Visiting Professor at NUS in Singapore. “Known by many as the father...
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Supercomputing RNA Structure at Argonne
Over at ALCF, Joan Koka writes that researchers at the National Cancer Institute are using Argonne supercomputers to advance disease studies by enhancing our understanding...
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Asetek Announces Regional OEM HPC installation
Today Asetek announced an order from a new European OEM customer to service demand for an HPC (High Performance Computing) installation. "The order is for Asetek...
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SKA and CERN Sign Big Data Agreement
Today the SKA Organization and CERN signed an agreement formalizing their growing collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing. The agreement establishes...
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Teradata Acquires StackIQ
Today Teradata announced the acquisition of StackIQ, developers of one of the industry’s fastest bare metal software provisioning platforms which has managed the...
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WekaIO Unveils Industry’s First Cloud-native Scalable File System
Today WekaIO, a venture backed high-performance cloud storage software company, today emerged from stealth to introduce the industry's first cloud-native scalable...
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Alan Turing Institute to Acquire Cray Urika-GX Graph Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Company will provide a Cray Urika-GX system to the Alan Turing Institute. “The rise of data-intensive computing – where big data analytics...
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Silicon Mechanics steps up with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Today Silicon Mechanics announced immediate availability of Intel's new family of processors, the Intel Xeon Scalable platform, formerly code-named Purley. Intel's...
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New Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Accelerate HPC Systems
Intel outlines the highlights and features of the company's new Intel Xeon Scalable processors designed to accelerate HPC systems. The Intel Xeon processor Scalable...
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New Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Boost HPC Performance
The new Intel Xeon Scalable Processors provide up to a 2x FLOPs/clock improvement1 with Intel AVX-512 as well as integrated Intel Omni-Path Architecture ports,New...
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Developing a Software Stack for Exascale
In this special guest feature, Rajeev Thakur from Argonne describes why Exascale would be a daunting software challenge even if we had the hardware today. “The...
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Penguin Computing Announces Transition to Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Today Penguin Computing announced completion of the company’s major technology transition to the Intel Xeon Scalable platform for all Penguin Computing productPenguin...
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RCE Podcast Looks at Shifter Containers for HPC
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Shane Canon and Doug Jacobsen from NERSC, the authors of Shifter. "Shifter is a prototype implementation...
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Testing Brain-Inspired Chips for Big Data Problems at Berkeley Lab
"The von Neumann design has also led computing to its current limits in efficiency and cooling. As engineers built increasingly complex chips to carry out sequential...
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Deep Learning in the Spotlight at ISC
This year the ISC conference dedicated an entire day to deep learning, Wednesday, June 21, to discuss the recent advances in artificial intelligence based on deep...
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Supercomputing DNA Packing in Nuclei at TACC
Aaron Dubrow writes that researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch are exploring DNA folding and cellular packing with supercomputing power from TACC...
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Mellanox Unveils Spectrum-2 400 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch
"Spectrum-2 Open Ethernet switch enables our customers and partners to meet the voracious demands of data speed, data processing and real time data analytics, and...
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Red Hat Debuts Multi-Architecture Solutions for HPC at ISC 2017
In this video, Yan Fisher from Red Hat describes the company's multi-architecture solutions that were on display at ISC 2017. "Historically, HPC workloads haveRed...
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European Supercomputing Centers Adopt Joint Procurement Process
Some of Europe’s leading supercomputing centers have joined forces to create a buyers group that will enable joint public procurement of new HPC systems. "The new...
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