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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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Coposky and Russell Tapped to Lead iRODS Consortium
Industry veterans Jason Coposky and Terrell Russell have taken lead roles at the membership-based foundation that leads development and support of the integrated...
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Allinea Updates Code Optimization Tools Across Platforms
Today Allinea Software launched the first update to its well-established toolset for debugging, profiling and optimizing high performance code since being acquired...
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CoolIT Systems Issued U.S. Patent for Modular Heat-Transfer Solutions
“U.S. Patent 9,496,200 protects the invention of utilizing a modular, building block approach for datacenter cooling with direct contact liquid cooling,” said Geoff...
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Tachyum Startup Looks to Break Performance and Cost Barriers to Intelligent Information Processing
Today Silicon Valley startup Tachyum Inc. launched, announcing its mission to conquer the performance plateau in nanometer-class chips and the systems they power...
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Oak Ridge steps up to Active Archive Solutions
Today the Active Archive Alliance announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has upgraded its active archive solutions to enhance the integrity and accessibility...
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Kathy Yelick Joins Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame
Kathy Yelick, the Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences at LBNL, has been named to the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame for her leadership in science...
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Mellanox Ships 100,000+ Cables for Next-Gen 100 Gb/s Networks
Today Mellanox announced that it has shipped more than 100,000 units of its Direct Attach Copper Cables (DACs) to serve the growing demand of hyperscale Web 2.0...
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Supermicro Deploys 30,000+ MicroBlade Servers for 1.06 PUE Datacenter
A technology-leading Fortune 100 company has deployed over 30,000 Supermicro MicroBlade servers, at its Silicon Valley data center facility with a Power Use Effectiveness...
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NVIDIA Rolls Out New Quadro Pascal GPUs
"Professional workflows are now infused with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and photorealism, creating new challenges for our most demanding users," said...
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Over 10,000 Users and Counting for Comet Supercomputer at SDSC
Today the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced that the comet supercomputer has easily surpassed its target of serving at least 10,000 researchers across...
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Spectra Logic Celebrates Ten Years of Profitability
Today Spectra Logic announced its tenth consecutive year of profitability at the close of calendar year 2016. Spectra Logic’s success is rooted in investing inSpectra...
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Hexagon to Acquire MSC Software
Today Hexagon AB from Sweden announced an agreement to acquire MSC Software, a leading provider of computer-aided engineering solutions, including simulation software...
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Microsoft Releases Batch Shipyard on GitHub for Docker on Azure
"Available on GitHub as Open Source, the Batch Shipyard toolkit enables easy deployment of batch-style Dockerized workloads to Azure Batch compute pools. AzureMicrosoft...
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ANSYS Enterprise Cloud goes with Cycle Computing for HPC
“Our collaboration with Cycle Computing enables the ANSYS Enterprise Cloud to meet the elastic capacity and security requirements of enterprise customers,” said...
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Asetek Achieves 200 Million Hours of Fault-Free Pump Operations at DataCenters
Today Asetek announced that its server pump has achieved 200 million hours of reliable operation in real world use. Installed at end-user locations as diverse as...
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Digital Human Software Added to Altair Partner Alliance
“At Altair, we believe human-centered design is more than just mechanical fit; rather, it’s an exploration of the entire experience of users with a product, including...
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Univa Unisight 4.1 Software Informs IT Purchasing Decisions
Today Univa announced the general availably of its Unisight v4.1 product, providing simple and extensible metric collection for all types of Univa Grid Engine data...
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Cheyenne Supercomputer Triples Scientific Capability at NCAR
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is launching operations this month of one of the world's most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputers,Cheyenne...
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25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium Validates Multi-Vendor Interoperability
"In order to handle the increasing amount of data, server architectures all too often require multiple 10G ports. 25G Ethernet arrives just in time and has started...
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