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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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Radio Free HPC Looks at the European Processor Initiative
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the European Processor Initiative, an effort to design a build an exascale computer based around European technology...
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First Experiences with Parallel Application Development in Fortran 2018
Damian Rouson from the Sourcery Institute gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "This talk will present performance and scalability results of the mini...
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Linac Coherent Laser Source (LCLS-II): Data Transfer Requirements
Les Cottrell from SLAC gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Scientists use LCLS to take crisp pictures of atomic motions, watch chemical reactions unfold...
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GPU Technology Conference Returns to San Jose March 26-29
NVIDIA will host thousands of the world’s leading AI experts at its ninth annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on March 26-29 in San Jose, California. "GTC is...
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Outlook on Hot Technologies
Shahin Khan from OrionX gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "We will review OrionX's predictions for 2018, the technologies that are changing the world...
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Job of the Week: Senior Linux System Administrator at Michigan State University
The Michigan State University Institute for Cyber Enabled Research is seeking a Senior Linux System Administrator/Information Technologist in our Job of the Week...
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BSC Adopts Supergeek Mascot to get kids into Supercomputing
Getting young people interested in STEM careers is a big concern for the HPC community. Maybe what we really need is a superhero. "A new mascot at the Barcelona...
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Living Heart Project: Using HPC in the Cloud to Save Lives
Burak Yenier and Francisco Sahli gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Cardiac arrhythmia can be a potentially lethal side effect of medications. Before...
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Call for Proposals: International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems in New Zealand
The 12th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2018) in New Zealand has issued their Call for Proposals. The event takes place...
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Sharing High-Performance Interconnects Across Multiple Virtual Machines
Mohan Potheri from VMware gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Virtualized devices offer maximum flexibility. This session introduces SR-IOV, explains...
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HPCG Benchmark offers a alternative way to rank Top Computers
“The LINPACK program used to represent a broad spectrum of the core computations that needed to be performed, but things have changed,” said Sandia researcher Mike...
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Announcing the 2018 HPC-AI Competition in APAC
Today the HPC AI Advisory Council announced the 2018 APAC HPC-AI Competition. Co-sponsored by National Supercomputing Centre in Singapore, the 2018 APAC HPC-AIAnnouncing...
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Mid-career Women help build SCinet with WINS Apprenticeship at SC17
In this special guest feature, Alisa Alering from ScienceNode writes that a team of women engineers helped build SCinet as part of the WINS program at SC17. “AMid...
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The Mont-Blanc project: Updates from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Filippo Mantovani from BSC gave this talk at the GoingARM workshop at SC17. "Since 2011, Mont-Blanc has pushed the adoption of Arm technology in High Performance...
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How Spectre and Meltdown Could Affect Future Processors
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Adrian Giordani reports on recent vulnerabilities found in many modern CPUs. "These problems areHow...
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High Availability HPC: Microservice Architectures for Supercomputing
Ryan Quick from Providentia Worldwide gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Microservices power cloud-native applications to scale thousands of timesHigh...
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HPC Carpentry Learning Portal Offers an Intro to HPC
The good folks at HPC Carpentry have posted a new set of teaching materials designed to help new users take advantage of high-performance computing systems. NoHPC...
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Video: Intel Ships Stratix 10 TX FPGAs for Multi-Terabit Network Infrastructure
Today Intel announced it has begun shipping its Intel Stratix 10 TX FPGAs, the industry’s only field programmable gate array (FPGA) with 58G PAM4 transceiver technology...
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SpaRC: Scalable Sequence Clustering using Apache Spark
Zhong Wang from the Genome Institute at LBNL gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Whole genome shotgun based next generation transcriptomics and metagenomics...
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