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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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Google Compute Engine offers VMs with 96 Skylake CPUs and 624GB of Memory
Google Compute Engine now offers new VMs with the most Skylake vCPUs of any cloud provider. "Skylake in turn provides up to 20% faster compute performance, 82%Google...
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Accelerating Quantum Chemistry for Drug Discovery
In the pharmaceutical industry, drug discovery is a long and expensive process. This sponsored post from Nvidia explores how the University of Florida and University...
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Podcast: Intel Omni-Path adds Performance and Scalalability
"Intel OPA, part of Intel Scalable System Framework, is a high-performance fabric enabling the responsiveness, throughput, and scalability required by today's and...
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Future HPC Leaders Gather at Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
Over at ALCF, Andrea Manning writes that the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing brought together HPC practitioners from around the world...
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PRACE Awards 1.7 Million Core Hours for Research Projects in Europe
Today the European PRACE initiative announced that 46 Awards from their recent 15th Call for Proposals total up to nearly 1.7 thousand million core hours. The 46...
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COMSOL Conference Showcases Next-Gen Multiphysics
Attendees of the COMSOL Conference in Boston this week were treated to a sneak preview future developments of the popular multiphysics software from Svante Littmarck...
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Advanced Clustering Technologies Deploys Lawrence Supercomputer at University of South Dakota
Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced the deployment of a new supercomputer at the University of South Dakota. cluster. The machine is named "Lawrence"...
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Call For Research Papers: ISC 2018
ISC 2018 has issued their Call for Research Papers. "Submissions are now open for the ISC 2018 conference research paper sessions, which aim to provide first-class...
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SC17 Highlights Nobel Prize Winning LIGO Collaboration
In this video from SC17, researchers discuss the role of HPC in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gravitational waves, originally theorized 100 years ago bySC17...
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Clemson to complete $1 million upgrade of Palmetto HPC Cluster
A $1-million upgrade to Clemson University’s Palmetto Cluster is expected to help researchers quicken the pace of scientific discovery and technological innovation...
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Argonne’s Data Science Program Doubles Down with New Projects
Today Argonne announced that the ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP) has awarded computing time to four new projects, bringing the total number of ADSP projects for...
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Jonathan Poggie from Purdue Wins DoD Computing Award
Associate Professor Jonathan Poggie and his team from Purdue have received a large research grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for supercomputing resources...
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Engility To Provide NOAA With HPC Expertise
Today Engility announced $14 million in task order awards from NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Engility scientists will conduct HPC software development...
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Supporting Diverse HPC Workloads on a Single Cluster
High Performance Computing is extending its reach into new areas. Not only are modeling and simulation being used more widely, but deep learning and other high...
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FPGAs Power New Intel Programmable Acceleration Cards
Today, Intel announced a comprehensive hardware and software platform solution to enable faster deployment of customized field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based...
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IEEE Recognizes Three Early Career Researchers in HPC
Today the IEEE Computer Society announced the winners of the IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on HPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance...
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How Can We Bring Apps to Racks?
In this special guest feature, Rosemary Dr Rosemary Francis from Ellexus describes why the customized nature of HPC is not a sustainable path forward for the next...
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HPC4Mfg Program Seeks New Projects
The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program in the Energy Department’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) announced today their intent to...
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Bringing Diversity to Computational Science
"Computing is one of the least diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, with an under-representation of women and minorities, including...
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