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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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Altair Steps up to Azure Cloud with Inspire Unlimited
Altair software is now part of the Inspire Unlimited software-as-a-service offering available on the Azure cloud. "Unlike the HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance, where...
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Using Ai to detect Gravitational Waves with the Blue Waters Supercomputer
NASA researchers are using AI technologies to detect gravitational waves. The work is described in a new article in Physics Review D this month. "This article shows...
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Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu wins 2018 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Today PRACE announced that Prof. Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, is the winner of the 2018 PRACE...
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Intel FPGAs Goes Mainstream for Enterprise Workloads
Today Intel announced top-tier OEM adoption of Intel’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration in their server lineup. This is the first major use ofIntel...
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Reduce Costs with Adaptive Computing’s NODUS Cloud Bursting Solution
"HPC organizations that utilize cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, etc.) in conjunction with Adaptive Computing’s NODUS Cloud Bursting Solution...
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ISC 2018 Launches Travel Grant Program for Students
Today the ISC Group rolled out their new ISC High Performance Travel Grant Program to enable university students and young researchers to attend the conference...
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Supermicro RSD 2.1 Pools All-Flash NVMe Composable Storage
Today Supermicro announced their new Rack Scale Design (RSD) 2.1 with pooled all-flash NVMe composable storage support for applications like high throughput ingest...
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Accelize Launches App Store for FPGAs
While FPGAs have been renowned for how hard they are to program, help may be on the way. Today Acceliz launched an App Store marketplace called AccelStore for FPGA...
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Women in HPC Workshop Returns to ISC 2018
The eighth international Women in HPC Workshop will be held June 28 at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. This workshop provides leaders and managers in the HPC community...
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Jon Bashor Retires After 27 Years of Service to National Labs
LBNL Communications Manager Jon Bashor has announced his retirement after 27 years with the national lab system. "As communications manager, Jon has been key to...
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Researchers Tune HPC Codes for Intel Xeon Phi at Brookhaven Hackathon
"The goal of this hands-on workshop was to help participants optimize their application codes to exploit the different levels of parallelism and memory hierarchies...
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Video: Thomas Sterling on the Current State of HPC
In this video from the Supercomputing Frontiers Europe conference, Prof. Thomas Sterling describes how the National Strategic Computing Initiative will help keep...
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Ohio Supercomputing Center Hosts User Group Meeting
At the Ohio Supercomputer Center Statewide Users Group spring conference this week, OSC clients in fields spanning everything from astrophysics to linguistics gathered...
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New Pointwise Release Adds Mesh Automation and Adaptability for CFD
Pointwise has released Version 18.1, a major update to its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh generation software. With its origins in a multiyear development...
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Barbara Chapman Joins Board of OpenMP ARB
Today the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) announced the appointment of Barbara Chapman to its Board of Directors. "We are delighted to have Prof. Chapman...
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Let’s Talk Exascale: Developing Low Overhead Communication Libraries
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, Scott Baden of LBNL describes the Pagoda Project, which seeks to develop a lightweight communication and global addressLet...
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IBM brings in Startups to Accelerate Quantum Computing
Over at the IBM blog, Jeff Welser writes that nearly 100 startups, venture capitalists, and industry thought leaders are gathering today at the first IBM Q Summit...
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Pawsey Supercomputing Centre teams with NSCC Singapore to Accelerate Science
The National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate in the fields...
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HPC Pioneer Burton Smith passes away
Burton J. Smith has passed away. An internationally recognized leader in HPC architecture, Smith was a co-founder of Tera Computing (later renamed Cray, Inc) and...
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