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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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ISC 2019 Recap from Glenn Lockwood
In this special guest feature, Glenn Lockwood from NERSC shares his impressions of ISC 2019 from an I/O perspective. "I was fortunate enough to attend the ISC HPC...
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Baidu Collaborates on Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training
Intel is collaborating with Baidu on development of the new Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor for training (NNP-T). The two companies will team up on hardware...
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FPGAs and the Road to Reprogrammable HPC
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe writes that FPGAs provide an early insight into possibile architectural specialization...
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Rigetti Computing Named Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
Today Rigetti Computing announced that the company has been named as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”. Rigetti Computing was founded in 2013...
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SC19 Announces Lineup of Invited Speakers
"Complementing the SC19 conference theme, “HPC is Now!”, the SC19 Invited Talks program brings together 12 leading researchers whose talks will highlight the translational...
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D-Wave Announces Largest-Ever Quantum Cloud-Access Contract
Today D-Wave Systems announced largest-ever global quantum cloud contract with Sigma-i, a company in Japan formed to optimize the world with quantum computing technologies...
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Summit Supercomputer Triples Performance Record on new HPL-AI Benchmark
"Using HPL-AI, a new approach to benchmarking AI supercomputers, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit system has achieved unprecedented performance levels ofSummit...
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Supercomputing Asteroid Impacts for Planetary Defenses
In support of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, researchers are creating 3-D models and using one of NASA’s most powerful supercomputers to produceSupercomputing...
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Qumulo Delivers new All-Flash Platforms for Unstructured Data
Today Qumulo announced comprehensive software and hardware advancements that will help enterprises to capitalize on dynamic market conditions, including rapidly...
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StorONE and Seagate Partner to Maximize SSD Performance Specs
Today StorONE announced record speeds using Seagate SSD drives and StorONE’s TRU S1 Software Defined Storage solution. In recent performance testing, StorONE combined...
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Dell EMC Powers Innovation with AI and HPC at ISC 2019
At ISC 2019, Dell Technologies announced a series of new solutions, reference designs, customer collaborations, and partnerships designed to advance and simplify...
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Advancing manufacturing with simulation-based digital twins
The concept of a digital twin—the mirroring of a physical object with a virtual object created by simulation-based engineering—has been around since NASA beganAdvancing...
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Supermicro steps up with EDSFF All-Flash NVMe Optimized Storage
Today Supermicro launched the industry’s first family of server and storage systems that support EDSFF (Enterprise and Datacenter Storage Form Factor) NVMe drives...
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ISC19 Student Cluster Configurations: Less is More, GPUs Rule
In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX shares first-hand coverage of the Student Cluster Competition at the recent ISC 2019 conference. "I’m constantly...
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D-Wave Releases of D-Wave Hybrid Workflow Platform to Open Source
Today D-Wave Systems announced the general availability of D-Wave Hybrid, a simple open-source hybrid workflow platform for building and running quantum-classical...
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Intel Optimized Libraries Accelerate Deep Learning Applications on Intel Platforms
Whatever the platform, getting the best possible performance out of an application always presents big challenges. This is especially true when developing AI and...
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MeteoSwiss to Improve Weather Forecasting with Cray CS-Storm Supercomputer
At ISC 2019, Cray announced that CSCS in Switzerland is adding a third Cray CS-Storm supercomputer to support the development of cutting-edge weather service products...
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Cray to Deliver First Exabyte HPC Storage System for Frontier Supercomputer
At ISC 2019, Cray announced plans to deliver the worlds first Exabyte HPC storage system. As part of the Frontier CORAL-2 contract DOE and ORNL, the next generation...
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Hyperion Research Announces Winners of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
At ISC 2019, Hyperion Research announced the newest recipients of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award at ISC 2019 in Frankfurt. "The program's main goals are to...
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