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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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Job of the Week: Education and Training Specialist at OSC
The Ohio Supercomputer Center is seeking an Education and Training Specialist in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: Education and Training Specialist...
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Podcast: Geoffrey Hinton on the Rise of Deep Learning
"In Deep Learning what we do is try to minimize the amount of hand engineering and get the neural nets to learn, more or less, everything. Instead of programing...
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Students Win ASC15 Competition with K80 GPUs
Over at the Nvidia Blog, George Middleton writes that Tesla K80 GPUs powered the winning team from Tsinghua University at the recent ASC15 International Student...
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Will Europe be First to Exascale?
"The strengths and the limitations of Europe’s supercomputing strategy were laid out at the PRACEDdays15 conference in Dublin at the end of May, with the mindsWill...
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Video: From Megaflop to Petaflop and Beyond
Arden Bement from Purdue University presented this keynote at the NCSA Blue Waters Symposium. "Over the three decades supercomputer throughput rates have increased...
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HPC News Bytes for June 11, 2015
While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Global HPC news items from this week include updates from Cray, Dell,...
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Video: Towards Exascale Simulation of Turbulent Combustion
"Exascale computing will enable combustion simulations in parameter regimes relevant to next-generation combustors burning alternative fuels. The first principles...
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Video: Computational Challenges in Macroeconomics
"Modern macroeconomic theory has provided many qualitative insights into the functioning of financial and labor markets in our complex modern economies. But determining...
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Artemis Cluster Powers Research at University of Sydney
The University of Sydney in Australia has deployed a new Dell supercomputer. Known as "Artemis," the 1512-core system is powered by Intel Haswell processors, 10...
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Idaho National Lab Deploys SGI ICE X Supercomputer
Today Idaho National Laboratory (INL) announced that the lab has deployed an SGI ICE X supercomputer to power nuclear reactor simulations. Supplied through SGI's...
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Video: Towards Inevitable Convergence of HPC and Big Data
Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology discusses Big Data at the NCSA Blue Waters Symposium. "The trend towards convergence is not only strategic...
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Petascale Research in Earthquake Science on Blue Waters
"SCEC’s multi-disciplinary research team is using NCSA Blue Waters to develop physics-based computational models of earthquake processes. During the past year,Petascale...
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DDN User Group Comes to ISC 2015 July 14
The DDN User Group meeting will take place July 14 at ISC 2014 in Frankfurt. The post DDN User Group Comes to ISC 2015 July 14 appeared first on insideHPC.
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Video: First Galaxies and Quasars in the BlueTides Simulation
"BlueTides has successfully used essentially the entire set of XE6 nodes on the Blue Waters. It follows the evolution of 0.7 trillion particles in a large volume...
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Interview: Workshop on Euro/Latin American HPC Collaboration Coming to ISC 2015
The ISC 2015 conference will feature a day-long workshop on European/Latin American HPC Collaboration. To learn more, we caught up with workshop organizer Dr. Carlos...
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Why Hardware is Leaving Software Behind
In the first report from last week’s PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World considers why so much Exascale software will be...
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Video Preview of the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition
In this video, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting and Brian Sparks from the HPC Advisory Council discuss the competitors in the upcoming ISC 2015 Student ClusterVideo...
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Call for Posters: New York Scientific Data Summit
"This annual meeting aims to accelerate data-driven discovery and innovation by bringing together researchers, developers and end-users from academia, industry,...
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Video: Parallel Algorithms Reconsidered
"Parallel algorithms have been a subject of intensive algorithmic research in the 1980s. This research almost died out in the mid 1990s. In this paper we argueVideo...
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