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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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The US-China Supercomputing Race, Post-Exascale HPC Government Policy and the ‘Partitioning of the Internet’
All over the world, HPC has burst into geopolitics. HPC – broadly defined here as advanced supercomputing combined with big AI – is at the fault lines of national...
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IBM Doubles Down on 1000+-Qubit Quantum in 2023
As expectation-setting goes in the technology, this is one of the boldest we’ve ever seen. At IBM’s annual Think conference, a senior systems executive reiterated...
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AI Demand Pushes against Skills Shortage, Lack of IT Infrastructure – IBM
As with other areas of the economy (chips, workforce), demand isn’t the problem in the AI market, it’s supply: supply of knowledge and skills, and supply of technology...
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2 Seconds of Hair Growth: IBM Claims World’s First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology
IBM today unveiled what it said is with the development of the first chip announced with 2 nanometer (nm) nanosheet technology. Though still more than two years...
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Quantum Launches Video and Unstructured Data Solutions with StorNext Converged Architecture and Appliances
SAN JOSE, Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) has announced a new StorNext architecture and line of StorNext appliances that simplify how organizations manage, store...
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Rice Univ. Researchers Claim 15x AI Model Training Speed-up Using CPUs
Reports are circulating in AI circles that researchers from Rice University claim a breakthrough in AI model training acceleration – without using accelerators....
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Super-expensive Supercomputers: UK Met Office in £1B+ Deal for Microsoft Weather System; $3B System in China on Way
As widely reported in February, the UK Met Office and Microsoft have come to an agreement to provision a £1.2 billion (over 10 years) supercomputer the Met Office...
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Carleton Univ. and IBM Partner in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science for Workforce Development
OTTAWA — April 15, 2021 — Carleton University and IBM Canada today announce a five-year multimillion-dollar collaboration agreement to enhance Carleton’s Institute...
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OpenFive Tapes Out SoC for Advanced HPC / AI Solutions on TSMC 5nm Technology
SAN MATEO, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – OpenFive, a provider of customizable, silicon-focused solutions with differentiated IP, today announced the successful tape...
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Cloudera and NVIDIA Accelerate Data Analytics and AI in the Cloud
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 12, 2021 — Cloudera, (NYSE: CLDR), the enterprise data cloud company, today announced that Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) will integrate...
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7 Chinese HPC Organizations Added to Entity List for Supporting China’s Military
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has added seven Chinese supercomputing organizations to the Entity List “for conducting7...
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Semtech Expands 5G Wireless Front Haul Portfolio With 50Gbps Tri-Edge CDR IC Solution
CAMARILLO, Calif., Apr. 7, 2021 – Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms...
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MinIO Enables Management of Kubernetes-native Object Storage with Console, Operator and SUBNET Health
PALO ALTO — April 7, 2021 — MinIO, a high performance, Kubernetes-native object storage, today announced the addition of Console, Operator and SUBNET Health toMinIO...
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Univ. of Buffalo’s Paul DesJardin Elected Fellow of ASME
Paul DesJardin of the University of Buffalo has been elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in recognition of his exceptional achievements...
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‘Ice Lake’ Launch: Intel Impresses with 3rd Gen Xeon Chips
In its cage-match struggle with AMD, Intel responded this morning to its rival’s vaunted EPYC 7003 Series CPUs, announced two weeks ago, with its 3rd Gen Intel‘Ice...
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Seeqc’s Naples Team Claims 2-Qubit Gate Quantum Milestone
Naples, Italy–April 6, 2021– Digital quantum computing company Seeqc today announced its Naples team, lead by Marco Arzeo, Ph.D., has developed and measured a two...
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Silicon’s Successors: 2-D Materials Aim to Carry the Post-Moore’s Law Torch
Even as a flurry of new silicon has been launched recently by AMD and Arm, with more to come this week from Intel, silicon’s five decades of microprocessor dominance...
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PLDA Joins ETP4HPC to Share High Speed Interconnect IP with European HPC Ecosystem
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — PLDA, the leading developer of high-speed interconnect silicon IP, is joining ETP4HPC, an association that gathers leading European players...
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Peptone Scales Protein Engineering System with Nvidia and Verne Global
March 30, 2021 – Molecular computational physics company Peptone, focused on protein drug discovery and engineering tools, has installed an Nvidia DGX A100 system...
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