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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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Andrew Jones wraps up ISC 2017
In this special guest feature, Andrew Jones from NAG offers his perspective on ISC 2017. How he came to know such things is a mystery as Mr. Jones did not attend...
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Supercomputing the Secrets of the Snake Genome at TACC
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are using TACC supercomputers to study the unique traits of snake evolution. Led by assistant professor of biology...
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Intel Omni-Path Architecture: Incredible Momentum for a New Technology
This is the last of four articles on Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) next-generation fabric for high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. Intel OPA is...
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HPC Capacity Doubles on Irish Supercomputer List
The 8th Irish Supercomputer List was released last week, featuring two new Top500-class machines. The new entrants, from an undisclosed software company, feature...
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AFRL Taps IBM to Build Brain-Inspired AI Supercomputer
Today IBM announced they are collaborating with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing system poweredAFRL...
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One Stop Systems Showcases GPU and Flash Appliances at ISC
This week in Frankfurt, One Stop Systems showcased all-new HPC Appliances at ISC 2017. "One Stop Systems offers a wide variety of GPU and Flash appliances to support...
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HPC Vendors showcase plans for ARM products
Are you ready? ARM-based HPC systems will be available by the end of 2017. At ISC 2017, Penguin Computing and Bull both announced that they will deliver products...
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NASA’s Develops SAFEGUARD Safety Net Technology for Drones
Flying drone aircraft are no longer rare sightings these day. In fact, their may be one above you somewhere taking pictures at this very moment. This begs the question...
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Simply Beautiful: MareNorstum4 Supercomputer Sports 13.7 Petaflops
Over at Lenovo, Gavin O'Hara writes that the world's most beautiful supercomputer center now sports a 13.7 Petaflop system so novel in design that it has captured...
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Inspurs Unveils GX4 Ai Accelerator
Today Inspur unveiled GX4, a new flexible and high scalability AI accelerating box at ISC 2017. The GX4 is able to achieve the decoupling coprocessor resourcesInspurs...
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Cavium’s ThunderX2 Processors coming to Penguin Computing Tundra OCP Platform
Today Penguin Computing, a provider of high-performance computing, enterprise datacenter and cloud solutions, announced availability of its Tundra Extreme Scale...
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Univa Contributes Universal Resource Broker to Open Source Community
Today Univa announced the contribution of its Universal Resource Broker (URB) technology to the open-source community. "Open source software is critical in theUniva...
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CoolIT Systems Teams with Dell EMC as Liquid Cooling Supplier to Enable Greener Datacenters
Today CoolIT Systems announced a collaboration with Dell EMC to provide a factory-installed Direct Contact Liquid Cooling solution to address power and coolingCoolIT...
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Intel® HPC Orchestrator and OpenHPC: Trends and Directions
Sharing a common architecture, Intel® HPC Orchestrator and OpenHPC are changing the face of HPC by providing a cohesive and comprehensive system software stack....
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Lustre Moves Forward: A Wrapup of LUG 2017
In this special guest feature, Sarp Oral from ORNL writes that the recent LUG Lustre User Group meeting in Indiana has set a new course for the popular parallel...
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NVIDIA Powers Top 13 Most Energy Efficient Supercomputers
Today Nvidia announced that the NVIDIA Tesla AI supercomputing platform powers the top 13 measured systems on the new Green500 list of the world’s most energy-efficient...
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ISC 2017 Announces Record Attendance
Today ISC 2017 announced that a record 3200 HPC enthusiasts from 60 countries have registered for the conference. The event also received an international media...
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OpenACC Takes Off at ISC17
Today the OpenACC standards group announced plans to showcase new advancements and increasing momentum for their programming model at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt. "OpenACC...
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Podcast: Spectra Logic Report looks at the State of Data Storage
Today Spectra Logic their annual review of the data storage industry. The report provides insight for storage and media manufacturers, application developers and...
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