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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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Gartner Positions SGI in “Visionaries” Quadrant for Modular Servers
SGI has been positioned by Gartner in the "Visionaries" quadrant of the May 2016 Magic Quadrant for Modular Servers. "Visionaries have an ambitious vision of the...
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Call for Participation: Women in IT Networking at SC16
"The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program was developed as a means for addressing the prevalent gender gap that exists in Information Technology particularly...
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SGI Sets New SPEC OMP World Record with Intel Xeon E7 V4
Over at SGI, Gabriel Broner writes that the company's big memory SGI UV 300 and SGI UV 30EX servers are now available with the Intel Xeon processor E7-8800 v4 and...
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IDC to Host a Pair of Special Events at ISC 2016
IDC will hold a pair of simultaneous events on Tuesday, June 21 at 7:30am - 10:00am at ISC 2016 in Frankfurt. "IDC cordially invites you and other HPC community...
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Dell Builds 1 Petaflop Lengau Supercomputer for CHPC in South Africa
"Dell is proud to collaborate with South Africa’s CSIR on the delivery of the fastest HPC system in Africa. The Lengau system will provide access and open doors...
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Video: Adoption Trends for Solid State in Big Data Sites
Bret Weber from DDN presented this talk at the 2016 MSST Conference. "SSDs and all flash arrays are being marketed as a panacea. This may be true if you’re a small...
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Intel Ramps up HPDA with New Xeon E7 v4 Family of Processors
Today Intel announced the new Intel Xeon processor E7-8800/4800 v4 processor family for High Performance Data Analytics. Designed with the enterprise in mind, the...
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Video: Using GPUs for Electromagnetic Simulations of Human Interface Technology
Chris Mason from Acceleware presented this talk at GTC 2016. "This session will focus on real life examples including an RF powered contact lens, a wireless capsule...
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Call for Presentations: MVAPICH User Group (MUG) Meeting
The MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting has issued its Call for Presentations. The event takes place August 15-17 in Columbus, Ohio. The post Call for Presentations...
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Video: Computational Physics with Python
"Newton's explanation of planetary orbits is one of the greatest achievements of science. We will follow Feynman's approach to show how the motion of the planets...
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HSA 1.1 Specification Adds Multi-Vendor Architecture Support
The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation has released the HSA 1.1 specification, significantly enhancing the ability to integrate open and proprietary...
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Supercomputing Supernova Explosions on Mira
Researchers from Michigan State University are using the Mira supercomputer to perform large-scale 3-D simulations of the final moments of a supernova’s life cycle...
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Video: Will AI & Robotics Make Humans Obsolete?
"IBM has developed new scale-up and scale-out systems — with 16 million neurons — that will be presented in Dr Modha's pioneering research talk. Watson wins atVideo...
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Dell Unveils Triton Liquid Cooling Technology
"Because water can transport heat 25 times more efficiently than air, ‘Triton’ can run high performing components faster and more efficiently than traditional air...
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New TPCx-BB Benchmark Compares Big Data Analytics Systems
Today the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today announced the immediate availability of the TPCx-BB benchmark. The benchmark is designed to measure...
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Stampede 2 Supercomputer at TACC to Sport 18 Petaflops
Over at the Dell HPC Community, Jim Ganthier writes that TACC is planning to deploy its 18 Petflop Stampede 2 supercomputer based on Dell servers running IntelStampede...
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Singularity 2.0 Software
Today LBNL released version 2.0 of its innovative Singularity container software. Mobility of Compute is the encapsulation of an environment in such a manner to...
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Interview: Ken Claffey on Seagate HPC Innovation On Deck at ISC 2016
"One of the benefits of our ClusterStor modular architecture is its flexibility - we can deliver a very comparable performance with either Lustre or Spectrum Scale...
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Platform Rebrands as IBM Spectrum Computing with Focus on HPDA
Today expanded its portfolio of software-defined infrastructure solutions with cognitive features to help clients improve the management of computing resourcesPlatform...
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