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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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Penguin Computing Adds Support for Singularity Containers on POD HPC Cloud
Today Penguin Computing announced support for Singularity containers on its Penguin Computing On-Demand (POD) HPC Cloud and Scyld ClusterWare HPC management software...
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Mellanox InfiniBand to Power Science at University of Waterloo
Today Mellanox announced that the University of Waterloo selected Mellanox EDR 100G InfiniBand solutions to accelerate their new supercomputer. The new supercomputer...
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Gauss Centre in Germany Awards 2.1 Billion Core Hours for Science
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany approved 30 large-scale projects as part of their 17th call for large-scale proposals. Combined, these...
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Intel Omni-Path Architecture: What’s a Supercomputer App Want?
The Intel Omni-Path Architecture is the next-generation fabric for high-performance computing. In this feature, we will focus on what it takes for for supercomputer...
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IBM’s New PowerAI Software Speeds Deep Learning
IBM PowerAI on Power servers with GPU accelerators provide at least twice the performance of our x86 platform; everything is faster and easier: adding memory, setting...
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Living Computers Museum Adds Two Iconic Cray Systems
Today the Living Computers: Museum + Labs added a pair of Cray supercomputers to its permanent collection. The Cray-1 supercomputer went on display at Living Computers...
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Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 Release Sets New Standard for Automation
Today Bright Computing announced the release of Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 and Bright OpenStack 8.0 with advanced, integrated solutions to improve ease-of use and...
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BSC and NVIDIA Showcase Interactive Simulation of Human Body
This week at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia and Barcelona Supercomputing Center demonstrated an interactive visualization of a cardiac computational model...
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DOE to Fund HPC for Manufacturing
Today, DOE announced nearly $3.9 million for 13 projects designed to stimulate the use of high performance supercomputing in U.S. manufacturing. The Office of Energy...
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SkyScale Announces “World’s Fastest Cloud Computing Service”
Today SkyScale announced the launch of its world-class, ultra-fast multi-GPU hardware platforms in the cloud, available for lease to customers desiring the fastest...
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One Stop Systems Showcases High-Density GPU Appliances at GTC 2017
One Stop Systems announced plans to exhibit a wide array of its high-density GPU appliances at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. "One Stop Systems offers...
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AI Technology from China Helps Radiologists Detect Lung Cancer
Today Infervision introduced its innovative, deep learning solution to help radiologists identify suspicious lesions and nodules in lung cancer patients fasterAI...
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MapD Open Sources High-Speed GPU-Powered Database
Today MapD Technologies released the MapD Core database to the open source community under the Apache 2 license, seeding a new generation of data applications.MapD...
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IBM Supports New Faster Protocols for NVMe Flash Storage
Today IBM announced its development of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solutions to provide clients the ability to significantly lower latencies in an effort...
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Sixteen Teams to Compete in SC17 Student Cluster Competition
Today SC17 announced that 16 teams will take part in the Student Cluster Competition. Hailing from across the U.S., as well as Asia and Europe, the student teams...
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Podcast: PortHadoop Speeds Data Movement for Science
In this TACC Podcast, host Jorge Salazar interviews Xian-He Sun, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Computer Scientists...
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Nvidia Funds AI Startup Fastdata.io
Today Fastdata.io announced it has raised a total of $1.5 million from NVIDIA and other investors. The company is introducing "the world’s fastest and most efficient...
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Comet Supercomputer Doubles Down on Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs
The San Diego Supercomputer Center has been granted a supplemental award from the National Science Foundation to double the number of graphic processing units,Comet...
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One Stop Systems Announces SkyScale HPC as a Service
Today One Stop Systems (OSS) annouced the launch of SkyScale, a new company that provides HPC as a Service (HPCaaS). For years OSS has been designing and manufacturing...
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