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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 Posit Computing
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the problems with IEEE Floating Point. “As described in a recent presentation by John Gustafson, the flaws and...
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HPC Speeds NASCAR at OSC
In this video, Ray Leto from Total Sim LLC describes how his firm uses supercomputing resources at OSC to speed NASCAR simulations. "Designers and engineers utilizing...
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Supercomputing Ocean Currents at NASA
A team from the NASA has developed a new visualization tool that is being used by researchers from the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO)...
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Beating Floating Point at its own game: Posit Arithmetic
"Dr. Gustafson has recently finished writing a book, The End of Error: Unum Computing, that presents a new approach to computer arithmetic: the unum. The universal...
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Video: HPE Powers 1 Petaflop QURIOSITY Supercomputer at BASF
"In today’s data-driven economy, high performance computing plays a pivotal role in driving advances in space exploration, biology and artificial intelligence,”...
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Video: I/O Challenges in Brain Tissue Simulation
"Blue Brain Project simulations use mathematical models of individual neurons and synapses to compute the electrical activity of the network as it evolves overVideo...
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E4 Computer Engineering Demonstrates OpenPOWER Servers at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Fabrizio Magugliani from E4 Computer Engineering describes the company's innovative OP205 OpenPOWER server for HPC applications. "Our...
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WINS Program Sponsors Six Women to Help Build SCinet at SC17
SC17 has chosen six women from IT departments around the United States to participate in the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program, helping to build and operate...
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Podcast: Introducing Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Intel Select Solutions
In this Chip Chat podcast, Lisa Spelman, Manager of Intel Xeon Products and Data Center Marketing, discusses the launch of two pivotal advances for the data center...
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Video: Building a GPU-enabled OpenStack Cloud for HPC
Blair Bethwaite and Lance Wilson from Monash University gave this talk at OpenStack Australia. "M3 is the latest generation system of the MASSIVE project, an HPC...
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Video: Scalable Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK)
"Microsoft AI researchers are striving to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and enrich human experiences and capabilities. At the core...
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Job of the Week: Research Scientist at LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is seeking a Research Scientist in our Job of the Week. "For more than 60 years, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
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Video: Technical Challenges in Complex Bioinformatics Environments
In this video from the 2017 DDN User Group meeting at ISC, Dean Flanders, Head of Informatics/CIO at Friedrich Miescher Institute presents: Technical Challenges...
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Interview: Hot Interconnects Conference to Focus on Next-Generation Networks
The Hot Interconnects Conference is coming up Aug. 28-30 in Santa Clara. To learn more, we caught up with Program Chairs Ryan Grant and Jitu (Jitendra) Padhye.Interview...
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Podcast: Andrew Ng on why AI is the New Electricity
In this AI Podcast, Andrew NG from Deeplearning.AI describes why he thinks Artificial Intelligence is the new electricity. "Just as today I see a lot of S&P 500...
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Seagate ClusterStor Employees Move to Cray in Strategic Transaction
Is Seagate getting out of the HPC business? That would appear to be the case with news that Cray has signed a definitive agreement with Seagate to complete a strategic...
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DOE Helps Tackle Biology’s Big Data
Six proposals have been selected to participate in a new partnership between two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) user facilities through the “Facilities Integrating...
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Supercomputing by API: Connecting Modern Web Apps to HPC
In this video from OpenStack Australia, David Perry from the University of Melbourne presents: Supercomputing by API - Connecting Modern Web Apps to HPC. "OpenStack...
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Gabriel Broner Joins Rescale as VP & GM of HPC
Today HPC Cloud provider Rescale announced that Gabriel Broner has joined the company as Vice President and General Manager of High Performance Computing. "Rescale...
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