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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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Frontier Testing and Tuning Problems Downplayed by Oak Ridge
Everything about the Frontier supercomputer, the world’s first exascale system residing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is outsized: its power, its scale andFrontier...
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At ISC 2022: Microsoft Talks HPC-AI and AMD Chips in the Azure Cloud
We visited with Microsoft Azure during ISC – here is our conversation with two HPC-AI specialists, Alex Jean and Dr. Lukasz Miroslaw, for an update on Azure’s line...
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Aurora on (Revised) Schedule? Intel Says it’s Shipping Ponte Vecchio-Sapphire Rapids Blades to Argonne
The rumors had begun to cirulate – October is near, that kicks off the fourth quarter, 2023 isn’t far behind, all of which means Intel is coming up against a hard...
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How the HPC-AI Rocky Linux Server Operating System Rose from the CentOS Ashes
[SPONSORED CONTENT] CentOS disappeared in the dead of winter. On December 8, 2020, the day with the earliest sunset of the year in northern latitudes, Red HatHow...
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DOE Awards $178M for Bioenergy Technology
Sept. 13, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awards totaling $178 million for bioenergy research projects intended to advance sustainable technology...
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Dell Technologies Interview: At the Univ. of Bristol’s Advanced Computing Research Centre ‘Typical Doesn’t Exist’
In this interview, part of our series done on behalf of Dell Technologies, we spoke with Simon Atack, HPC team leader of the Advanced Computing Research CentreDell...
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OLCF’s Doug Kothe on Pushing Frontier Across the Exascale Line and the Future of Leadership Supercomputers
Everyone involved in the Frontier supercomputer project got a taste of what a moonshot is like. Granted, lives were not on the line with Frontier as they were when...
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Sylabs and Anchore Collaborate to Bring SBOM Support for Singularity Containers
Reno, NV – August 24, 2022 – Sylabs, a provider of container technology and services for performance-intensive workloads, today announced it has collaborated with...
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Frontier Exascale Unveiling: ‘Breathtaking…, a Huge Leap Forward for Science, for Our Country”
It was a day of high pride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a day to stop and take stock of the successful completion of a project based on an idea – exascaleFrontier...
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Lenovo Brings a Decade of Liquid Cooling Experience to the Faster, Denser, Hotter HPC Systems of the Future
[SPONSORED CONTENT] HPC systems customers (and vendors) are in permanent pursuit of more compute power with equal or greater node density. But with that comesLenovo...
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Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) Meeting July 21-22
July 21, 2022 — The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the U.S. Department of Energy...
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At ISC 2022: Vik Malyala Puts the Spotlight on Supermicro’s AMD-based Servers
In this interview with Supermicro’s Vik Malyala, he discusses the company’s latest editions of its AMD-based server products, the third generation of AMD processors...
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At ISC 2022: DDN’s James Coomer Talks Storage and Data Management That Simplifies HPC/AI at Scale
At ISC 2022 in Hamburg, we sat down with DDN Senior Vice President Products James Coomer to discuss the company’s evolving mission as more customers move toward...
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At ISC: Dion Harris on NVIDIA’S HPC/AI and Quantum Strategies; LANL’s Upcoming ‘Venado’ 10 Exaflops HPC/AI System; and GPU Distinctions
We spoke at ISC 2022 with NVIDIA’s Head of Technical Marketing for HPC/AI and Quantum Dion Harris across a range of topics, including: The 10 exaflop (HPL-AI benchmark)...
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DOE Document Reveals Next-Gen Supercomputing Strategy: A Move to More Modular, Rapid Upgrade Cycles
Less than a month after its Frontier supercomputer broke the exascale performance barrier and was named the no. 1 system in the world, the U.S. Department of Energy...
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Registration Open for Aug. 2-4 RMACC HPC Symposium
June 28, 2022, BOULDER, CO – Registration is underway for the 12th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium...
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AMD Appoints Mathew Hein Chief Strategy Officer
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June, 22, 2022 — AMD today announced that Mathew Hein is joining the company as chief strategy officer and senior vice president of corporate...
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@HPCpodcast: Parallel Processing Systems Pioneer Dr. Thomas Sterling on the State of HPC
Following his highly anticipated and always-insightful closing night keynote at the recent ISC conference, we caught up with Prof. Thomas Sterling to discuss the...
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At ISC 2022: Cornelis Networks’ New Hardware, Software for Omni-Path High-Performance Fabric
We sat down with Doug Fuller, director of software development at high-performance fabric provider Cornelis Networks, to discuss new hardware developments within...
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