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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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Surrogate Machine Learning Models: Revolutionizing HPC Simulation Run-times
Physics-based simulations, that staple of traditional HPC, may be evolving toward an emerging, AI-based technique that could radically accelerate simulation runs...
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Add UK to Nvidia-Arm Acquisition Snags
On the heels of potential regulatory problems in China and Europe for Nvidia’s planned Arm acquisition, another press report, from Bloomberg, states that UK regulators...
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Nvidia’s Arm Acquisition May Be Hitting Snags in China, Europe
Tea leaf reading regarding Chinese regulators’ decision on Nvidia’s intended takeover of Arm may have taken a negative — or at least a time consuming — turn. ANvidia...
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NGD Joins Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 2, 2021– As the HPC community enters an era in which computation can be offloaded to storage devices, it is important to explore the mechanisms...
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NSF Partnerships Expand National AI Research Institutes to 40 states
WASHINGTON — July 29, 2021 –Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced the establishment of 11 new NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes...
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Drop in Intel Earnings Expected Today
Pat Gelsinger’s got one foot on a tiger, the other on an aircraft carrier – one side is a rough, volatile ride; the other plows a course set years ago, hard toDrop...
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Double-precision CPUs vs. Single-precision GPUs; HPL vs. HPL-AI Benchmarks; Traditional vs. AI Supercomputers
If you’ve wondered why GPUs are faster than CPUs, in part it’s because they’re asked to do less – or, to be more precise, to be less precise. Next question: OK,...
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Report: Intel Weighing Acquisition of GlobalFoundries
New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s vow earlier this year to move the company into the foundry business – making chips not just for itself but also for others – may take...
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HPC in the News: Data Management Automation and Faster Processor Gates; Intel and TSMC in Arizona, Europe
The everlasting rat’s nest that is scientific computing data management, the permanent quest for more advanced-level processing power, and investments in new fabs...
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HPC Integral to DoD’s Post-JEDI Cloud Strategy; Early Co-favorites: AWS and Azure
The Pentagon’s cancellation of the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract won in 2019 by Microsoft – the biggest tech story of the week and surely one of the...
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New Supermicro Servers Featuring NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPUs
San Jose, June 28, 2021 — Super Micro Computer, Inc., a maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking and green computing technology, announced SupermicroNew...
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insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: HPC Experts on Conference Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews
insideHPC offers a rich lineup of video events and interviews for virtual ISC 2021, including off-hours events designed to enlighten and entertain along with ainsideHPC...
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Fugaku Stays on Top of Top500 Supercomputer List – But Is China Hiding Something?
The 56th edition of the Top500 saw the Japanese Fugaku supercomputer solidify its number one status in a list that the list organizers said shows a somewhat static...
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Lenovo at ISC: ‘Exascale to Every Scale’
For at least four years, Lenovo has been vocal about its high ambitions in high performance computing, and by all appearances the company is progressing towardLenovo...
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Atos Comes into ISC off Strong Year in HPC
Atos, with its BullSequana line of supercomputers, will no doubt be a prominent player at this year’s ISC conference. While ISC is an international HPC event, it...
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HPE at ISC: ‘Perform Like a Supercomputer, Run Like a Cloud’
Since we last saw HPE at ISC a year ago, the company embarked on a strong run of success in HPC and supercomputing – successes the company will no doubt be happy...
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XTREME-D Launches First Server Product, AXXE-L One
Tokyo — June 24, 2021 – Award-winning Platform as a Service Provider XTREME-D Inc. today announced the launch of AXXE-L One, the company’s first server product....
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SiPearl Opens Site in Barcelona
Maisons-Laffitte,France and Barcelona, June 22, 2021 – SiPearl, the company that is designing the high-performance, low power microprocessor for the European exascale...
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Ayar Labs Demos Terabit Optical Link for Co-Packaged Optics and Chip-to-Chip Connectivity
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Ayar Labs announced today that it has successfully demonstrated what is said is the industry’s first terabit per second Wavelength Division...
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