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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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Spectra Logic Enhances BlackPearl Deep Storage
Today Spectra Logic announced updates and enhancements to its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway that allow data to move seamlessly into deep tape storage in a new...
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LBNL to Help Create Standard 3D Neuron Model
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are contributing to the BigNeuron project, a community effort to define and advance the state of the art of...
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Women in HPC to Teach Supercomputing at PRACE Days15
As part of PRACE Days15 next month, the Women in HPC Network will conduct a general introduction session on High Performance Computing.The post Women in HPC toinsideHPC...
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Removing Bottlenecks in Next Generation Sequencing
This is the 4th installment of a 6 article series on the trends and technologies impacting the application of HPC in Life Sciences. Here we explore how companies...
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SGI to Boost Pangea Supercomputer to 6.7 Petaflops
"When we began our relationship with Total more than 15 years ago, our goal was to continually provide the capacity and power required for the company to pursue...
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EPFL Unleashes Deneb, a Scalable HPC Architecture for Researchers and Students
EPFL launches Denab: a scalable HPC architecture for researchers and students. "Working with ClusterVision and Intel has proved to be a wise and productive decision...
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Lenovo Opens HPC Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Readies SuperMUC Phase 2
Today Lenovo announced the opening of the company’s first global HPC innovation center, offering a permanent R&D and application benchmarking site as well as aLenovo...
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Going from the Lab to the Data Center
In the late 1980s, genomic sequencing began to shift from wet lab work to a computationally intensive science; by end of the 1990s this trend was in full swing....
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How Supercomputers Give Universities a Competitive Edge
In an NSF-funded study, a Clemson University team found that universities with locally available supercomputers were more efficient in producing research in critical...
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Is Europe Leading the Energy Efficiency Race?
Europe is notorious for its high energy costs. In the first of three articles on energy efficiency in high-performance computing, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing...
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Mellanox Demonstrates Next-Gen 100Gb/s LinkX Cables & Silicon Photonics Transceivers
Today Mellanox introduced three new LinkX 100Gb/s solutions with a live demonstration at the OFC 2015 Conference (Booth 2419).
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Nvidia Pascal GPU is Just One Year Away
According to comments made at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) last week, the Pascal, next generation GPU is now just a year away.
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Nvidia Showcases Deep Learning Technology
Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), being held in San Jose California this week, showcased a combination of hardware and software aimed at driving the development...
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Genomics and Big Data
Advances in computational biology as applied to NGS workflows have led to an explosion of sequencing data. All that data has to be sequenced, transformed, analyzed...
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Cavium Adds GPU Support to 64-bit ARMv8-A ThunderX Processor Family
Today Cavium announced support for Nvidia Teslas GPUs in its ThunderX ARM processor family.
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E4 Rolls Out ARM-based ARKA Servers for HPC and Big Data
Today E4 Computer Engineering from Italy announced a new series of ThunderX ARMv8-A enabled ARKA dense computing sever product line.
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World’s Most Energy Efficient Supercomputer Powered by AMD FirePro™
AMD powers the L-CSC cluster at the GSI research facility which achieved the number one position for most energy efficient supercomputers on the latest Green500...
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IBM Platform Computing Delivers New HPC Cloud Offerings
Clusters that are purchased for specific applications tend not to be flexible as workloads change. What is needed is an infrastructure that can expand or contract...
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Earthquake Researchers at SDSC Win Nvidia Global Impact Award
Today Nvidia announced that researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center have won the inaugural Global Impact Award and its $150,000 prize. The researchers...
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