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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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Register Now for SC18 Housing in Dallas – Rooms will run out
Housing registration is now open for SC18 in Dallas. Unlike previous years, you should register now because the conference hotels expected to run out of rooms sometime...
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New Paper: A Survey of Techniques for Dynamic Branch Prediction
Branch predictor (BP) is an essential component in modern processors since high BP accuracy can improve performance and reduce energy. However, reducing latency...
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Podcast: TACC Powers Deep Earth Imaging
"In this TACC Podcast, Ross Maguire and Jeroen Ritsema of the University of Michigan describe how supercomputer simulations of volcanos show how mantle plumes form...
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Nlyte Sofware Taps IBM Watson for Optimization of Workload Infrastructure
Today Nlyte Software announced the company has partnered with the IBM Watson IoT group to offer its first cognitive DCIM solution – Nlyte Machine Learning. TheNlyte...
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Unversity of Cambridge Receives £10 million in funding for new AI supercomputer
The UK’s fastest academic supercomputer, based at the University of Cambridge, will be made available to artificial intelligence (AI) technology companies fromUnversity...
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Seagate Storage Devices Achieve Common Criteria Certification for GDPR Security
Today Seagate announced that it has achieved Common Criteria (CC) certification across a broad portfolio of its Hard Disc Drives and SSDs, expanding on its existing...
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Intel Saffron AI Speeds Issue Resolution for Manufacturing
Today Intel released the Intel Saffron AI Quality and Maintenance Decision Support Suite – a suite of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software applications...
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Exploring the Possibilities of Deep Learning Software
This is the second post in a five-part series from a report that explores the potential of unified deep learning with CPU, GPU and FGPA technologies. This postExploring...
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Video: Big Data Assimilation Revolutionizing Weather Prediction
In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Miyoshi Takemasa from RIKEN presents: Big Data Assimilation Revolutionizing Weather Prediction. "A new projectVideo...
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Call for Proposals: ALCF Data Science Program at Argonne
Argonne is now accepting proposals for the ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP). "The program, which currently supports eight projects, allocates computing time and...
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Pawsey Centre receives $70 Million for Supercomputing Down Under
Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announced it has received $70 million in funding for a new supercomputing infrastructure. "This is a reflection of the government...
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RStor Startup Launches Multicloud Platform for Enterprise Performance Computing
Today the RStor startup launched a "hyper-distributed multicloud platform" that enables organizations to compute, connect, and operate above the cloud. " The legacy...
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Solarflare X2 NICs Deliver Super Low Latency
Solarflare has announced the general availability of X2, its second generation of XtremeScale NICs. "For modern data centers, X2 lays a new foundation for NIC-based...
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Daniel Reed to Keynote Internet2 Global Summit in San Diego
Today the 2018 Internet2 Global Summit announced that Daniel Reed from the University of Iowa will keynote the conference with a talk on the convergence of academic...
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Hyperion Research Posts Interactive Map of 765 U.S. HPC Sites
Today Hyperion Research today launched an information-rich, interactive map of 765 HPC sites in the United States. "The mapped sites include government, academic...
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Altair Releases PBS Works 2018 for Cloud Friendly Secure Workload Management
Today Altair released PBS Works 2018. Built around the company's PBS Professional core HPC workload manager and scheduler, the new PBS Works user environment streamlines...
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ScaleMP Powers Largest Shared-Memory Systems in Canada
ScaleMP announced that the government of Canada has extended the contract for its large shared memory systems acquired from Dell. These SMP systems use vSMP Foundation...
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ISC 2018 is Now Open for Registration
Registration is now open for ISC 2018 at Early Bird discounted rates. The event takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt. "Various topical and interest-specific Birds...
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Fireside Chat: Jensen Huang from NVIDIA on how AI will revolutionize Medicine
In this video from the World Medical Innovation Forum, Jensen Huang from NVIDIA discusses the revolution of AI and Medicine with Keith Dreyer, Chief Data Science...
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