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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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Exascale Computing Project’s Doug Kothe to Be Named Oak Ridge Associate Lab Director
Last month, we reported on management changes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), including the upcoming...
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Google Cloud Says TPU-Powered Machine Learning Hub Delivers 9 Exaflops Aggregate Power
As HPC enters the exascale era, watchers of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers will look to see if the updated list, to be released this...
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IBM Quantum Promises 4,000-Qubit Processor in 2025, Envisions ‘Quantum-Centric Supercomputing’
At its Think 2022 conference this week, IBM declared its intent to deliver a 4,000+ qubit processor (“Kookaburra”) built with multiple clusters of scaled quantum...
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Tesla: Cooling Tech Engineer Stole Dojo Exascale Supercomputer Secrets
Theft of secret information about Tesla’s in-house supercomputer, the exascale-class “Project Dojo” system due to be up and running this year, are at issue inTesla...
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@HPCpodcast: Jack Dongarra Talks Turing Award, the TOP500 and the Past and Future of Supercomputing
At @HPCpodcast we’ve been fortunate to host some highly distinguished computer scientists and HPC thinkers, people who have shaped supercomputing as the technology...
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Dell Technologies Interview: Univ. of Liverpool’s Hybrid HPC Strategy Boosts Scientific Computing with a Burst
[SPONSORED CONTENT] In a recent Dell Technologies interview on this site, we talkied about HPC-as-a-Service with R Systems, provider HPC-on-demand resources and...
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Changes Afoot at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Exascale Computing Project
Change is afoot at the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). Those who listened to Jeff Nichols’ appearance...
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Exascale in China? 40 Million Cores Used for Many-Body Quantum Simulation
For several years, some in the HPC community have suspected China of sandbagging the world on its true supercomputing capabilities. Those suspicions may have been...
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World Quantum Day: Bank of Canada in Quantum Simulation of Cryptocurrency POC with Multiverse
Toronto – April 14, 2022 – The Bank of Canada, a G7 central bank, and Multiverse Computing, a developer of quantum computing solutions for the financial industry...
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MANTA Launches Release 36 of its Data Lineage Platform
April 13, 2022 — ТАMPA, Fla.– Data lineage platform MANTA today announced the launch of Release 36 of its data lineage platform. New features are designed to give...
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Facial Recognition, Video Analytics, Geospatial and Other AI Techniques Aiding Ukraine’s Investigations of Russian War Crimes
When war crimes are committed on a large enough scale, there’s too much evidence for retreating armies that committed them to hide. The Nazis left evidence of the...
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Ohio Supercomputer Center Acquires Dell HPC
April 12, 2022 — The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) will launch Ascend, a Dell Technologies-based high performance computing cluster with NVIDIA GPUs and AMDOhio...
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Former Intel HPC Leader Trish Damkroger Joins HPE as Chief Product Officer for HPC and AI
HPE has hired former Intel senior HPC executive Trish Damkroger as Chief Product Officer of the HPC & AI Organization. Damkroger left Intel last year after theFormer...
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San Diego Supercomputer Center to Offer Two Summer Institutes
April 7, 2022 — The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has planned summer institutes for June and August, one focused on cyberinfrastructure-enabled...
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Habana Labs and Grid.ai Collaborate for Training on Gaudi with PyTorch Lightning
April 7, 2022 — The Habana team announced it is collaborating with Grid.ai to make it easier for developers to train on Gaudi processors with PyTorch LightningHabana...
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Founder of STEM-Trek to Keynote RMACC’s 12th annual HPC Symposium
BOULDER, CO; April 5, 2022 – Elizabeth Leake, Director of Research Computing at Boise State University and founder of the global nonprofit STEM-Trek, has been selected...
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Exascale Computing Project Releases New Version of Extreme-Scale HPC Scientific Software Stack
The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) high-performance computing (HPC) software ecosystem—an ongoing broad collection of software capabilities continually...
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Q-CTRL Partners with Paul Scherrer Institute to Support Quantum Computing Scale-up
SYDNEY, March 30, 2022 – Q-CTRL, a developer of quantum technologies, today announced a partnership with The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), a research institute...
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Oak Ridge: Frontier Exascale to Deliver ‘Full User Operations’ on Jan. 1, 2023; ‘Crusher’ Test System Now Running Code
“Crusher,” a partial form of the planned 100+-cabinet Frontier supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is now running principal...
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