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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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Atos to Deploy 12 Petaflop Supercomputer at Jülich in Germany
Today Atos announced has a contract to deliver its a 12 Petaflop supercomputer to Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. The BullSequana X1000 machine will be Germany...
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Consumer GPUs Power 2 Petaflop Deep Learning Cluster at ASTRON
Today ClusterVision announced the successful deployment of a new high performance computing GPU cluster system for the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy...
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Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast looks at the GAMESS Project for Computational Chemistry
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Mike Bernhardt from ECP discusses the GAMESS project with Mark Gordon from Ames Laboratory. Gordon is the principal investigator...
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Apply Now for 2018 International HPC Summer School
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the ninth International HPC...
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NASA Goddard Boosts Discover Supercomputer to 5 Petaflops
CSRA Inc. has acquired another compute expansion under its High Performance Computing contract with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. "This HPC expansion brings...
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New HPC for Energy White Paper looks at Exascale Architectures for Greener Combustion Systems
The use of new Exascale architectures and the corresponding advances in codes to fully exploit new chip capabilities will help address challenges for combustion...
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Call for Proposals: Aurora Early Science Program for Deep Learning
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is seeking proposals for data and learning projects to help prepare for Aurora, the nation’s first exascale system...
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India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences Deploys two Cray XC40 Supercomputers
Today Cray announced that the Ministry of Earth Sciences in India has deployed a pair of Cray XC40 supercomputers with Cray ClusterStor storage systems. The combined...
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Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem been Solved?
Today a company called Bounded Floating Point announced a breakthrough patent in processor design, which allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last...
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How Integrators Ensure Top Performance for HPC Clusters
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe looks at the role of integrators to deliver and support HPC systems. "There is an increasing...
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Rescale Offers ANSYS Software On Demand
Today Rescale announced that ANSYS Elastic Licensing can now be purchased directly through Rescale’s ScaleX, a SaaS platform purpose-built for solving the world...
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HiPEAC18 Conference to Focus on Performance and Security Next Week in Manchester
Coming up next week in Manchester, the HiPEAC 2018 conference will once again bring together the best minds in computer architecture and compilation to exploitHiPEAC18...
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ClusterVision White Paper Looks at HPC Performance Impact of Spectre and Meltdown
While various kernel patches are already out for the Spectre and Meltdown, the performance impact of these patches on HPC performance has been a big question. Now...
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HPC4Mfg Program Selects New Industry Projects
Today the DOE announced $1.87 million for seven projects to advance innovation in U.S. manufacturing through HPC. "The HPC4Mfg program leverages world-class technical...
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Dark Energy Survey Releases First Three Years of Data
Today scientists from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) released their first three years of data. This first major release of data from the Survey includes information...
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Using the Titan Supercomputer to Accelerate Deep Learning Networks
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has married artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to achieve...
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ECP Launches “Let’s Talk Exascale” Podcast
The DOE's Exascale Computing Project has launched a new podcast channel. In this episode, Danny Perez from Los Alamos National Laboratory discusses The Exascale...
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NVIDIA races to patch GPU Drivers for Spectre and Meltdown
A new security bulletin from NVIDIA reveals that GPUs are not immune to the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that affect nearly every modern CPU. This is bad newsNVIDIA...
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Survey shows how AI Could Revolutionize Life Sciences
Some 44 per cent of life science professionals are using or experimenting with AI and deep learning, while 94 per cent expect an increase in use of machine learning...
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