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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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WINS Program Selects Seven Women to Help Build SCinet at SC16
Seven women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the country have been selected to help build and operate the high performance SCinet conference...
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SCinet Preps World’s Fastest Network Infrastructure at SC16
Over at the SC16 Blog, JP Vetters writes that planning for the SCinet high-bandwidth conference network is a multiyear process. The post SCinet Preps World’s Fastest...
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Report: Using HPC for Public Policy Analysis & Water Resource Management
Researchers from the RAND Corporation and LLNL have joined forces to combine HPC with innovative public policy analysis to improve planning for particularly complex...
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Phytium from China Unveils 64-core ARM HPC Processor
This week at the Hot Chips conference, Phytium Technology from China unveiled a 64-core CPU and a related prototype computer server. "Phytium says the new CPU chip...
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Nor-Tech to Offer Clusters with Intel HPC Orchestrator
Today Nor-Tech announced the imminent rollout of clusters integrated with the Intel HPC Orchestrator. HPC Orchestrator is a licensed, value-add version of OpenHPC...
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Spack Tool Eases Transition to Next-Gen Scientific Simulations
"Spack is like an app store for HPC,” says Todd Gamblin, its creator and lead developer. “It’s a bit more complicated than that, but it simplifies life for users...
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Finalists Announced for Gordon Bell Prize in HPC
"High performance computing continues to underwrite the progress of research using computational methods for the analysis and modeling of complex phenomena,” said...
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Mellanox Open New Singapore Headquarters to Strengthen HPC in Asia
Today Mellanox announced the opening of its new APAC headquarters and solutions centre in Singapore. The Company’s new APAC headquarters will feature a technology...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel Alliance Delivers New Centers of Excellence for HPC
Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have recently created two new Centers of Excellence (CoE) to help customers gain hands-on experience with High Performance...
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Avere Systems Teams with Cycle Computing for High Performance Multi-cloud Orchestration
Today Avere Systems and Cycle Computing announced a technology integration that enables hybrid high-performance computing (HPC) in popular public cloud computing...
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SimScale Integrates with Autodesk Fusion 360
Today SimScale in Germany announced a partnership with Autodesk, a leader in 3D design and fabrication software. The SimScale add-in for Autodesk Fusion 360 aims...
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NERSC Dungeon Session Speeds Code for Cori Supercomputer
Six application development teams from NERSC gathered at Intel in early August for a marathon “dungeon session" designed to help tweak their codes for the next-generation...
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IIT in Bombay Opens the First OpenPOWER Research Facility
Today IBM announced the opening of the first OpenPOWER Research Facility (OPRF) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The OPRF will help drive the country's...
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Making Life Easier with Altair Data Center GPU Management Tool
Altair's new Data Center GPU Management Tool is now available to Nvidia HPC Customers. With the wide adoption of Graphics Processing Units, customers are addressing...
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Supercomputers Power NOAA Flood Forecasting Tool
NOAA and its partners have developed a new forecasting tool to simulate how water moves throughout the nation’s rivers and streams, paving the way for the biggest...
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Making it Easy to Introduce Liquid Cooling to the Data Center
With the release of high wattage processors liquid cooling is becoming a necessity for HPC data centers. Liquid cooling’s ability to provide the direct removalMaking...
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Supermicro to Unveil RSD Rack Scale Design at IDF
"Supermicro RSD is architected to dramatically improve CPU and storage utilization rates, agility and efficiency in the datacenter,” stated Charles Liang, President...
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OSS Introduces Flash Appliances
Today One Stop Systems (OSS) introduced a pair of high-speed networked storage appliances that supports high-performance, shared storage services. "The OSS approach...
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Ethernet Alliance Technology Forum Looks to 2026
Today the Ethernet Alliance unveiled the agenda for its 2016 Technology Exploration Forum (TEF 2016). At the center of the day’s agenda is Ethernet’s quickening...
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