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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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CIARA steps up to High Frequency Trading and Blockchain with AMD
CIARA just announced new AMD-based systems for ultra-low latency, high Frequency Trading and Blockchain solutions. "With the adoption of new technologies such as...
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AI Podcast Looks at Recent Developments at NVIDIA Research
In this episode of the AI Podcast, Bryan Cantanzaro from NVIDIA discusses some of the latest developments at NVIDIA research. "The goal of NVIDIA research is to...
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New Update Speeds eXtremeDB Financial Edition for HPC
Today McObject announced a new version of its eXtremeDB Financial Edition for HPC database management system. Designed for speed and efficiency, the new version...
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Neurala Reduces Training Time for Deep Neural Network Technology
Today Neurala announced a breakthrough update to its award-winning Lifelong Deep Neural Network (Lifelong-DNN) technology. The update allows for a significant reduction...
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PASC18 Panel to Focus on Fast and Big Data, Fast and Big Computation
Today the PASC18 conference announced that this year’s panel discussion will focus on the central theme of the conference: “Fast and Big Data, Fast and Big Computation...
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XTREME-D to Launch Gateway Appliance for Secure HPC Cloud Access
"XTREME-Stargate is a small set-top linux appliance that can easily connect to HPC cloud with basic setup over a web portal using the XTREME-DNA interface. It functions...
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ArrayFire Releases v3.6 Parallel Libraries
Today ArrayFire announced the release of ArrayFire v3.6, the company's open source library of parallel computing functions supporting CUDA, OpenCL, and CPU devices...
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Let’s Talk Exascale: Transforming Combustion Science and Technology
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, Jackie Chen from Sandia National Laboratories describes the Combustion-Pele project, which uses predictive simulation for...
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Intel FPGAs Power Realtime AI in the Azure cloud
At the Microsoft Build conference held this week, Microsoft announced Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models powered by Project Brainwave integrated...
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Viking Technology Introduces NVMe Persistent Memory Drives
Today Viking Technology announced its new VT-PM8 and VT-PM16 persistent memory drives that deliver performance and unlimited write endurance similar to that ofViking...
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Gauss Centre in Germany Allocates 1 Billion Computing Core Hours for Science
"With the 19th Call for Large-Scale Projects, the GCS steering committee granted a total of more than 1 billion core hours to 17 ambitious research projects. The...
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MareNostrum provides 470 million core hours to European scientists
The PRACE initiative continues to sponsor ground-breaking research in Europe. "In the 16th PRACE Call for Project Access, Spain has allocated 470 million core hours...
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D-Wave Launches Quadrant Business Unit for Machine Learning
Today D-Wave Systems launch its new Quadrant business unit, formed to provide machine learning services that make state-of-the-art deep learning accessible to companies...
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Univa Navops Launch powers Cloudbursting for Mellanox Hybrid Cloud
Today Univa announced that Mellanox has selected Univa’s Navops Launch to extend its on-premise EDA cluster to the cloud, providing Mellanox with cost-effective...
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ClusterVision to build Scandinavia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
Today Sweden's National Supercomputing Centre (NSC) at Linköping University announced it has awarded ClusterVision a contract to build its new flagship cluster,...
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Lustre 2.11.0 Released
Today OpenSFS announced the release of Lustre 2.11.0, the fastest and most scalable parallel file system. OpenSFS, founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development...
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New AI Performance Milestones with NVIDIA Volta GPU Tensor Cores
Over at the NVIDIA blog, Loyd Case shares some recent advancements that deliver dramatic performance gains on GPUs to the AI community. "We have achieved record...
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Cavium ThunderX2 Processor goes GA for HPC and Beyond
Today Cavium announced the General Availability of ThunderX2, Cavium's second generation of Armv8-A SoC processors. "Integrating ThunderX2 into the HPE Apollo 70...
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Video: Benchmarking as the Answer to HPC Performance and Architecture Questions
"This presentation offers an impartial look at benchmarking of HPC systems by Andrew Jones (@hpcnotes), NAG VP Strategic HPC Consulting & Services. This is described...
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