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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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IBM Platform Computing Delivers New HPC Cloud Offerings
Clusters that are purchased for specific applications tend not to be flexible as workloads change. What is needed is an infrastructure that can expand or contract...
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Earthquake Researchers at SDSC Win Nvidia Global Impact Award
Today Nvidia announced that researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center have won the inaugural Global Impact Award and its $150,000 prize. The researchers...
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ANSYS Modernizes Code for Intel Xeon Phi
Today ANSYS and Intel announced a collaboration to speed structural code on x86 processors.
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Geophysicist Marianne Walck named VP of Sandia’s California laboratory
Today Sandia National Laboratories announced the appointment of Marianne Walck as vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory.
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Correct and Efficient Code – HYDRO2D
Simulation of physical processes such as the waves in an ocean or the wake behind a boat, although similar in a number of ways, require different approaches. With...
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IBM Platform Computing – Ready to Run Clusters in the Cloud
Demands by users that are running applications in the scientific, technical, financial or research areas can easily outstrip the capabilities of in-house clusters...
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The insideHPC Guide to HPC in Life Sciences
The term next generation sequencing (NGS) is really a misnomer. NGS implies a single methodology, but the fact is that over the past 10 to 15 years there have...
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IEEE is Rebooting Computing for What Comes Next
IEEE has launched something it calls Rebooting Computing (RC), "an initiative that proposes to rethink the computer through a holistic look that addresses all aspects...
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NSF Grant to Expand Indiana University GlobalNOC in Asia-Pacific
Today the Indiana University Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) today announced the award of a major new five-year, $4.8 million grant from the...
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Code Modernization – Why it is so Important
For about 40 years, developers and users could count on an increase in CPU performance that would make applications run faster. However, with the slowdown in constant...
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Clusters For Dummies
Clusters FOR DUMMIES is an excellent read for both experienced and novice administrators, users, purchasing departments, and developers who are considering purchasing...
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DownUnder GeoSolutions Dives Into Liquid Submersion Cooling
Today Green Revolution Cooling announced the latest installation of its CarnotJet System at the Australian geosciences company DownUnder GeoSolutions.
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Mellanox Shows Record Performance with ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Interconnect Adapters
Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand adapters.
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DDN Powers Fight Against Ebola at VBI
Today DDN announced that the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute is using the company's GRIScaler storage solutions to perform rapid, accurate Ebola outbreak modeling...
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Cray XC30 Powers LS-DYNA at Stalprodukt
Today Cray announced that Stalprodukt S.A., a leading global steel processor, purchased a Cray XC30 supercomputer for structural analysis modeling used in the testing...
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New Algorithm Real-Time Simulations in Materials Research
Researchers at LBNL have have developed a new algorithm that opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research.
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OpenPOWER Summit Announces Speaker Lineupfor March Conference
This week the OpenPOWER Foundation announced their lineup of speakers for the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, March 17-19...
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Optalysys to Power Genomics with Optical Computing
Today the TGAC Genome Analysis Centre and Optalysys announced a collaboration to develop and implement an energy-efficient optical processing device for large-scale...
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ARCHER Scales 118K Cores with Allinea MAP
Today the ARCHER national supercomputing service in the U.K. announced that it has deployed the Allinea MAP profiling tool to enable computational scientists and...
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