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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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South Africa’s CHPC Builds a Better Infrastructure with Altair PBS Works
At the Centre for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) in South Africa, the mission is to enable cutting-edge research by supporting the highest levels of HPC available...
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DDN Boosts Object Storage with WOS 360 2.0
Today DataDirect Networks announced the latest release of its advanced WOS object storage platform. WOS 360 2.0 includes a new, low-cost capacity node, increased...
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Solar Superstorms Documentary Powered by Blue Waters
A new high-resolution science documentary about the dynamics of the Sun will feature data-driven supercomputer visualizations produced by NCSA. Narrated by Benedict...
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Sandia’s Z machine Helps Pinpoint Age of Saturn
How old is Saturn? Researchers are using Sandia's Z machine to find out. The post Sandia’s Z machine Helps Pinpoint Age of Saturn appeared first on insideHPC....
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Mellanox Benchmarks Ceph on 100Gb Ethernet
Today Mellanox announced a set of 100Gb/s network storage performance benchmark results for Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage. The post MellanoxinsideHPC...
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Caterpillar & NCSA Expand Collaboration for Realistic Simulations
Today Caterpillar Inc. announced it will expand its collaboration with NCSA to develop more realistic simulations that can lead to improved product designs. The...
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Supercomputing Flow of Carbon Emissions in Deep Oceans
A new computer model developed by scientists at LANL increases global climate simulation accuracy through a better representation of the vast eddies that swirlSupercomputing...
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Asetek’s Liquid Cooling to Enable Highest Performance on POWER Based Systems
Today Asetek announced that the company has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the POWER microprocessor architecture. The post...
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Altair Launches PBS Pro 13
Today Altair announced the general availability of PBS Professional 13.0, the latest version of the market-leading software product for high-performance computing...
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New HP Apollo 4000 Systems Fulfill Booming Big Data Analytics & Object Storage Requirements
High Performance Computing and Big Data analytics touch us every day. We each rely on daily weather forecasts, banking and financial information, scientific and...
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D-Wave Breaks 1000 Qubit Quantum Computing Barrier
Today D-Wave Systems announced that it has broken the 1000 qubit barrier, developing a processor about double the size of D-Wave’s previous generation. The post...
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Mellanox Announces ConnectX-4 Lx 25/50 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Today Mellanox announced its ConnectX-4 Lx 10/25/40/50 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, delivering optimal cost-performance and scalable connectivity for Cloud, Web 2.0...
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SGI Ships 2.65 Petaflop ICE XA Supercomputer to ISSP in Japan
Today SGI announced its latest win at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the University of Tokyo. Scheduled to start operation on July 1 of this year...
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HPC on Windows – Does It Still Make Sense?
Could there still be a place for Windows in HPC environments? To find out, we caught up with Jan Wender from German IT service provider science+computing, who will...
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DTU Denmark Chills Computerome with CoolIT Systems
Today CoolIT Systems announced it has successfully deployed its Rack DCLC liquid cooling solution at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS) at the Technical...
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Mellanox Spectrum: World’s First 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch
Today Mellanox announced the industry’s first 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Open Ethernet-based, non-blocking switch. Spectrum, the next generation of its Open Ethernet...
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Contrasting how Japan and Europe Promote the Use of HPC
Europe and Japan have come to the same conclusion; HPC resources must be shared and not monopolized by the individual owners of the computer systems themselves....
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Satoshi Matsuoka to Chair ISC 2016 Conference Program
Today ISC Events announced that Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka of Tokyo Institute of Technology will be the program chairman for ISC 2016. "As the program chair, Dr...
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Supercomputing the Interior Dynamics of Stars and Giant Exoplanets
Over at the NASA Ames Research Center, Michelle Moyer writes that the agency is using supercomputer simulations to explore the interior dynamics of stars and giant...
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