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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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Bill Gropp to Receive Ken Kennedy Award
Today ACM and IEEE Computer Society named Bill Gropp from NCSA as the recipient of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for highly influential contributions...
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AI & Robotics Front and Center at GTC Japan
Robotics and Deep Learning applications were front and center at GTC Japan this week, where 2600 attendees lined up to hear the latest on GPU technologies. TheAI...
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Parallella Tapes Out 1024-core Epiphany-V Chip
Over at the Parallella Blog, Andreas Olafsson from Adapteva writes that the company has reached an important milestone on its next-generation Epiphany-V chip. "Thanks...
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Video: Sustainable High-Performance Computing through Data Science
Ozalp Babaoglu from the University of Bologna presented this Google Talk. "At exascale, failures and errors will be frequent, with many instances occurring daily...
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ORNL Creates Programming System for NVM Main Memory Systems
Researchers at the Future Technologies Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a novel programming system that extends C with intuitive, language...
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Preview: SC16 Tutorial on How to Buy a Supercomputer
"This tutorial, part of the SC16 State of the Practice, will guide attendees through the process of purchasing and deploying a HPC system. It will cover the whole...
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Mellanox Deploys Standard Linux Operating Systems over Ethernet Switches
Today Mellanox announced the availability of standard Linux kernel driver for the company Open Ethernet, Spectrum switch platforms. Developed within the large Linux...
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Registration Opens for Dell HPC Community Event at SC16
Registration is now open for the Dell HPC Community event at SC16. The event takes place Nov. 12 at the Radisson Hotel in Salt Lake City. "The Dell HPC Community...
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Video: Azure – the Cloud Supercomputer for AI
"We are still in the first minutes of the first day of the Intelligence revolution. In this keynote, Dr. Joseph Sirosh will present 5 solutions (and their implementations)...
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Video: Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) Processor Overview
Adrian Jackson from EPCC at the University of Edinburgh presented this tutorial to ARCHER users. "We have been working for a number of years on porting computational...
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SC16 Tutorial to Focus on Node-Level Performance Engineering
Sure, your code seems fast, but how do you know if you are leaving potential performance on the table? Recognized HPC experts Georg Hager and Gerhard Wellein will...
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Video: Experiences in eXtreme Scale HPC
In this video from the 2016 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, Mark Miller from LLNL leads a panel discussion on Experiences in eXtreme ScaleVideo...
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Video: Analysis of SSDs on SGI UV 300
Nikos Trikoupis from the City University of New York gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Austin. "We focus on measuring the aggregate throughput delivered by...
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SC16 Plenary Session to Focus on HPC and Precision Medicine
SC16 will continue its HPC Matters Plenary session series this year with a panel discussion on HPC and Precision Medicine. "The success of all of these research...
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E4 Computer Engineering Rolls Out GPU-accelerated OpenPOWER server
Today Italy’s E4 Computer Engineering announced generalavailability of the E4OP206, a GPU-accelerated OpenPOWER system designed to propel deep learning, artificial...
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Nvidia Releases Cuda 8
Today Nvidia announced the general availability of CUDA 8 toolkit for GPU developers. "A crucial goal for CUDA 8 is to provide support for the powerful new Pascal...
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Video: Nvidia Unveils ARM-Powered SoC with Volta GPU
Today at GTC Europe, Nvidia unveiled Xavier, an all-new SoC based on the company's next-gen Volta GPU, which will be the processor in future self-driving cars.Video...
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Video: An Optimized Entry Level Lustre Solution in a Small Form Factor
In this video from LUG 2016 in Australia, Chakravarthy Nagarajan from Intel presents: An Optimized Entry Level Lustre Solution in a Small Form Factor. "Our goal...
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Registration Opens for HP-CAST at SC16
Registration is now open for HP-CAST at SC16. The event takes place Nov. 11-12 in Salt Lake City. The post Registration Opens for HP-CAST at SC16 appeared first...
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