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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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Call for Participation: HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2016
The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2016 has announced their Call for Participation. Hosted by the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, the event will...
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Video: SGI Looks to Zero Copy Architecture for HPC and Big Data
In this video from SC15, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI describes how the company is embracing new HPC technology trends such as new memory hierarchies. With the convergence...
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Job of the Week: HPC Modeling and Optimization Postdoc at LANL
Los Alamos National Lab is seeking an HPC Modeling and Optimization Postdoc in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Modeling and Optimization Postdoc...
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OpenACC 2.5 Includes Support for ARM and x86 Processors
The OpenACC Standards Group released the 2.5 version of the OpenACC API specification. The post OpenACC 2.5 Includes Support for ARM and x86 Processors appeared...
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Earth Core Simulation Awarded Gordon Bell Prize
Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, IBM Research, New York University and the California Institute of Technology have been awarded the 2015 GordonEarth...
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New HPCG Benchmark List Goes Beyond LINPACK to Compare Supercomputers
The High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) Benchmark list was announced this week at SC15. This is the fourth list produced for the emerging benchmark designed...
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Video: OpenHPC Community Launches at SC15
In this video from SC15, Karl Schulz from Intel and Michael Miller from SUSE describe the all-new OpenHPC Community. "The use of open source software is central...
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Radio Free HPC Reports Live from SC15
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares their thoughts from SC15 in Austin. Henry is impressed by the increasing presence of FPGAs on the show floor. Dan...
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Video: Intel Debuts Omni-Path at SC15
In this video from SC15, Barry Davis from Intel describes the ecosystem for the newly launched Intel Omni-Path fabric and Scalable System Framework. "Intel OPAVideo...
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Video: IBM Showcases Data-centric Computing at SC15
In this video from SC15, Matt Drahzal from IBM describes the company's comprehensive approach to data-centric computing. "IBM is speeding up innovation throughVideo...
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Video: Seagate Rolls out All New ClusterStor Lineup for HPC Storage
In this video, Torben Kling-Petersen from Seagate describes new storage innovations for high performance computing. At SC15, Seagate announced a major expansion...
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Video: Early Evaluation of IME as a Burst Buffer and Application Accelerator
Dirk Pleiter from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre presented this talk at the DDN User Group at SC15. “IME unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough...
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Intel Unveils Omni-Path for Scalable System Framework
Intel Corporation today announced several advancements to its Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel SSF) that promise to bring high performance computing capabilities...
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USA Has a Shrinking Share of the TOP500
The latest TOP500 list was published today in conjunction with SC15 in Austin. For the sixth consecutive time, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer in China has retainedUSA...
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LANL Looks to Aeon Computing for Lustre
Today Aeon Computing announced that the company will provide two Lustre file systems to enhance LANL’s technical and supercomputing capabilities in support of its...
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New OpenPOWER Technologies to Break Big Data Speed Barriers
Today IBM and a set of fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members unveiled new technologies, collaborations and developer resources to enable clients to analyze data more...
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Video: Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Team Up with Scalable System Framework at SC15
In this video from SC15, Intel's Barry Davis and and Scott Misage from Hewlett Packard Enterprise describe how their two company's are driving HPC innovation with...
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SC Perennials Keep Coming Back
SC15 will the 28th supercomputing event in the conference series, a long tradition that brings some 10,000 HPC professionals to Austin this week. While many ofSC...
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PGI and NNSA to Open Source Fortran Compiler
Today the NNSA and its three national labs announced they have reached an agreement with Nvidia’s PGI software to create an open-source Fortran compiler designed...
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