Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 …
From insideHPC
NSF Sponsors EPiQC ‘expedition’ for Practical Quantum Computing
University of Chicago computer scientists will lead a $10 million “expedition” into the burgeoning field of quantum computing, bringing applications of the nascent...
From insideHPC
New Intel Movidius AI Program Enables Developers to Go To Market
Today Intel unveiled “AI: In Production,” a new program that makes it easier for developers to bring their artificial intelligence prototypes to market. Since its...
From insideHPC
Intel’s Advanced Webinar Series for Understanding HPC Fabrics and Intel Omni-Path Architecture
To help prospective customers understand Intel OPA capabilities and inform new customers of how to take advantage of all that Intel OPA has to offer, Intel began...
From insideHPC
HPE wins supercomputer contract for DoD Modernization Program
Today HPE announced it has been selected to provide new supercomputers for the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) to accelerate the development...
From insideHPC
Resource Management Across the Private/Public Cloud Divide
This is the final entry in a insideHPC series of features that explores new resource management solutions for workload convergence, such as Bright Cluster Manager...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Graphene Applications in Nanoscale Electronics
Researchers at North Carolina State University are using the Blue Waters Supercomputer to explore graphene’s applications, including its use in nanoscale electronics...
From insideHPC
Intel Rolls out new 3D NAND SSDs
Today, Intel announced the Intel SSD DC P4510 Series for data center applications. As a high performance storage device, the P4510 Series uses 64-layer TLC Intel...
From insideHPC
TACC Podcast Looks at AI and Water Management
It's about letting the AI help us be better decision makers. And it helps us move towards answering, discussing, and exploring the questions that are most important...
From insideHPC
Updating the SC18 Technical Program to Inspire the Future
In this special guest feature, SC18 Technical Program Chair David Keyes from KAUST writes that important changes are coming to the world's biggest HPC conference...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing Better Tools for Long-Term Crop Prediction
Researchers are using the Blue Waters supercomputer to create better tools for long-Term crop prediction. “We built this new tool to bridge these two types of crop...
From insideHPC
MIT helps move Neural Nets back to Analog
MIT researchers have developed a special-purpose chip that increases the speed of neural-network computations by three to seven times over its predecessors, while...
From insideHPC
HPC Processor Competition Heats Up
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World explores efforts to diversify the HPC processor market. "With the arrival of Arm and now...
From insideHPC
Gen-Z Consortium Announces the Public Release of Its Core Specification 1.0
Today the Gen-Z Consortium released the Gen-Z Core Specification 1.0 on its website. As an open systems interconnect, Gen-Z is designed to provide memory semantic...
From insideHPC
HPC System Management: Scheduling to Optimize Infrastructure
Whether the application is floating-point intensive, integer based, uses a lot of memory, has significant I/O requirements, or its widespread use is limited byHPC...
From insideHPC
TACC and DOD to Co-Develop Novel Computational Approaches
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide researchers with access to advanced computing resources...
From insideHPC
Google Cloud TPU Machine Learning Accelerators now in Beta
John Barrus writes that Cloud TPUs are available in beta on Google Cloud Platform to help machine learning experts train and run their ML models more quickly. "Cloud...
From insideHPC
Optalysys Optical Processing Achieves 90 percent energy savings for DNA Sequence Alignment
The GENESYS project applied Optalysys’s unique optical processing technology to perform large-scale DNA sequence alignment. "The collaboration with EI has beenOptalysys...
From insideHPC
CPU 24/7 Acquired by IAV GmbH for Automotive HPC Managed Services
HPC managed services provider CPU 24/7 has been acquired by IAV GmbH, a leading engineering services firm for the automotive industry. "We are very happy we found...
From insideHPC
Nominations open for PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2018
PRACE is once again seeking nominations for the Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2018. The award recognizes women in Europe who are breaking new barriers in science and...
From insideHPC