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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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Supercomputing the Mystery of Old Faithful
Over at Science Node, Lance Farrell writes that researchers are using XSEDE supercomputer resources to solve the mysteries of the Old Faithful geyser. “If you look...
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Advanced Hands-On OpenCL Tutorial To Kick-Off IWOCL 2016
Registration is now open for the Advanced Hands-On OpenCL Tutorial at the IWOCL 2016 conferernce. The tutorial focuses on advanced OpenCL concepts and is an extension...
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Changes Afoot from the HPC Crystal Ball
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Andrew Jones from NAG looks ahead at what 2016 has in store for HPC and finds people, not technology...
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Sony Acquires Altair Semiconductor
Today Sony Corporation announced that it has reached an agreement with Altair Semiconductor to acquire the company. The purchase price is $212 million U.S. dollars...
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Bright Computing Names Bill Wagner as CEO
Today Bright Computing announced that Bill Wagner has been appointed as its Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. As Bright Computing’s CEO, Bill succeeds...
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Cray Hits Record $724 Million Revenue for 2015
Today Cray announced financial results for the year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2015. The company reported total 2015 revenue of $724.7 million, which...
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OSC to Deploy New Dell Supercomputer in Ohio
Today the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) announced plans to boost scientific and industrial discovery and innovation with a powerful new supercomputer from Dell...
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New CFD and Geometry Interfaces in Pointwise Meshing Software
Today Pointwise announced the latest release of its meshing software featuring updated native interfaces to computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and geometry codes...
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HPE to Deliver SGI UV Technology for Mission Critical Solutions
Today, SGI and Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced an agreement in which HPE will OEM the SGI UV technology as the foundation for an 8-socket system – the HPEHPE...
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Ellexus Launches Mistral Software for Balancing Shared Storage across HPC Clusters
Today Ellexus in the UK announced the release of Mistral, a "ground breaking" product for balancing shared storage across a high performance computing cluster.Ellexus...
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Auburn University Launches Hopper Supercomputer from Lenovo
Today Auburn University unveiled its new $1 million supercomputer that will enhance research across campus, from microscopic gene sequencing to huge engineering...
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Saving East African Crops with Supercomputing
"Because the silverfly species are identical to look at, the best way to distinguish them is by examining their genetic difference, so we are deploying a mix of...
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Registration Opens for Inaugural Nimbix Developer Summit in Dallas
Registration is now open for the inaugural Nimbix Developer Summit. With an impressive lineup of speakers & sponsors from Mellanox, migenius, Xilinx, and more,Registration...
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Anton 2 Supercomputer to Speed Molecular Simulations at PSC
Today the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) announced a $1.8-million National Institutes of Health grant to make the next-generation Anton 2 supercomputerAnton...
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CCRT in France Acquires 1.4 Petaflop “Cobalt” Supercomputer from Bull
Today Atos announced that the French CEA and its industrial partners at the Centre for Computing Research and Technology, CCRT, have invested in a new 1.4 petaflop...
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LLNL Teams with Industry to Advance Energy Technologies using HPC
Today Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced the selection of six industry projects for the advancement of energy technologies using high performance...
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High Performance Computing for Energy Project Kicks off at BSC
High Performance Computing for Energy (HPC4E) project officially launched this week with a kick-off meeting for partners at the Barcelona Supercomputing CenterHigh...
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John Zannos to Chair OpenPOWER Foundation
Today the OpenPOWER Foundation announced the election of John Zannos from Canonical as Chair and Calista Redmond from IBM as President of the OpenPOWER Foundation...
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Seismic Processing Places High Demand on Storage
Oil and gas exploration is always a challenging endeavor, and with today's large risks and rewards, optimizing the process is of critical importance. A whole range...
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