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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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China to Develop Exascale Prototype in 2017
The Xinhua news agency reports that China is planning to develop a prototype exascale supercomputer by the end of 2017. "A complete computing system of the exascale...
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Cray to Develop ARM-based Isambard Supercomputer for UK Met Office
“This is an exciting time in high performance computing,” said Prof Simon McIntosh-Smith, leader of the project and Professor of High Performance Computing at the...
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DDN and Inspur Sign Agreement for Joint Sales & Marketing
Today DataDirect Networks announced a joint sales and marketing agreement with Inspur, a leading China-based, cloud-computing and total-solution-and-services provider...
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Bull Atos to Build for HPC Prototype for Mont-Blanc Project using Cavium ThunderX2 Processor
Today the Mont-Blanc European project announced it has selected Cavium’s ThunderX2 ARM server processor to power its new HPC prototype. The new Mont-Blanc prototype...
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IA Optimized Python Rocks in Production
"Intel recently announced the first product release of its High Performance Python distribution powered by Anaconda. The product provides a prebuilt easy-to-install...
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Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing Returns to Chicago in July
"As a bridge to that future, this two-week program fills many gaps that exist in the training computational scientists typically receive through formal education...
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Upgraded Bridges Supercomputer Now in Production
"Bridges’ new nodes add large-memory and GPU resources that enable researchers who have never used high-performance computing to easily scale their applications...
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IBM Rolls Out All-flash Storage for Cognitive Workloads
"The DS8880 All-Flash family is targeted at users that have experienced poor storage performance due to latency, low server utilization, high energy consumption...
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D-Wave Releases Open Quantum Software Environment
"Just as a software ecosystem helped to create the immense computing industry that exists today, building a quantum computing industry will require software accessible...
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017 – Call for Sessions Open
Each year the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) hosts an annual workshop devoted to advancing the state of the art in networking. "One secret to the enduring success of...
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HDR InfiniBand Technology Reshapes the World of High-Performance and Machine Learning Platforms
"The recent announcement of HDR InfiniBand included the three required network elements to achieve full end-to-end implementation of the new technology: ConnectX...
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Exascale Computing: A Race to the Future of HPC
In this week’s Sponsored Post, Nicolas Dube of Hewlett Packard Enterprise outlines the future of HPC and the role and challenges of exascale computing in thisExascale...
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Penn State Institute for CyberScience to Host HPC Workshops
The Penn State Institute for CyberScience (ICS) is hosting a series of free training workshops on high-performance computing techniques. These workshops are sponsored...
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Barry Bolding from Cray Shares Four Predictions for HPC in 2017
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Cray's Barry Bolding gives some predictions for the supercomputing industry in 2017. "2016 saw the...
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Supercomputing Sheds Light on Leaf Study
A new study led by a research scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) highlights a literally shady practice...
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AMD Unveils Vega GPU Architecure with HBM Memory
Today AMD unveiled preliminary details of its forthcoming GPU architecture, Vega. Conceived and executed over 5 years, Vega architecture enables new possibilities...
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New ReRAM Memory Can Process Data Where it Lives
A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors like thoseNew...
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Asia’s First Supercomputing Magazine Launches from Singapore
Singapore-based publisher Asian Scientist has launched Supercomputing Asia, a new print title dedicated to tracking the latest developments in high performanceAsia...
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Penguin Computing Releases Scyld ClusterWare 7
"The release of Scyld ClusterWare 7 continues the growth of Penguin’s HPC provisioning software and enables support of large scale clusters ranging to thousands...
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