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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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Apply Now for the SC17 Student Cluster Competition
Team applications are now being accepted for the SC17 Student Cluster Competition. "SC17 is excited to hold another nail-biting Student Cluster Competition, orApply...
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Job of the Week: Senior System Administrator for HPC at WHOI Institute
The WHOI Information Services Department is looking for a Senior Systems Administrator to join their team. This is a regular, full-time position, and is eligible...
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PRACE Posts Best Practice Guide for Intel Xeon Phi
The European PRACE initiative has published a new Best Practice Guide for Intel Xeon Phi, Knights Landing Edition. "This best practice guide provides information...
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Radio Free HPC Looks at How Bosch Helped Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at recent developments in the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal. According to reports, auto parts supplier Bosch wrote...
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IBM Collaborates with FDA on Blockchain Health Data
"The healthcare industry is undergoing significant changes due to the vast amounts of disparate data being generated. Blockchain technology provides a highly secure...
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Video: Tianhe-1A Supercomputer at Work
In this video, researchers describe how the Tianhe-1 supercomputer supports scientific research. "Currently #43 on the TOP500, the 2.56 Petaflop Tianhe-1A carries...
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HudsonAlpha to expand Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project
Today the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, a nonprofit genomics and genetics research institute, has been awarded a four-year, $6.7 million grant from the...
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John Gustafson presents: Beyond Floating Point – Next Generation Computer Arithmetic
"A new data type called a "posit" is designed for direct drop-in replacement for IEEE Standard 754 floats. Unlike unum arithmetic, posits do not require interval...
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Dr. William Vanderlinde on Computing Beyond Moore’s Law
In this video from the IEEE Rebooting Computing Workshop, Dr. William Vanderlinde, Chief Scientist at Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA),Dr...
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Video: A Look at the National Strategic Computing Initiative
In this video, Dr. Carl J. Williams, Deputy Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology within the United...
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Call for Papers: Workshop on HPC in a post Moore’s Law World
"The impending end of traditional MOSFET scaling has sparked research into preserving HPC performance improvements through alternative computational models. ToCall...
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Agenda Posted for Next Week’s HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference
"Over two days we’ll delve into a wide range of interests and best practices - in applications, tools and techniques and share new insights on the trends, technologies...
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Figen Ulgen From Intel Champions Women in HPC
In this video from SUSECON 2016, Jo Harris from SUSE sits down with Dr. Figen Ulgen, GM HPC Software and Cloud at Intel to discuss women in Open Source and HPC,...
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Call for Papers: ROSS Workshop on International Runtime Operating Systems on Supercomputers
The International Runtime Operating Systems on Supercomputers (ROSS) workshop has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 27 in Washington, D.C.Call...
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Exascale Computing Project Announces ECP Industry Council
Today the Exascale Computing Project announced the formation of the ECP Industry Council, an external advisory group of executives from some of the nation’s most...
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Video: Rescale Night Showcases HPC in the Cloud
"Billed as an exposition into 'The Future of Cloud HPC Simulation,' the event brought together experts in high-performance computing and simulation, cloud computing...
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HPC4Mfg Industry Day Comes to San Diego March 2-3
HPC4Mfg will host their first annual High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Industry Engagement Day on March 2-3 in San Diego. With a theme of "Spurring Innovation...
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Argonne Annouces Early Science Projects for Aurora Supercomputer
Argonne has selected 10 computational science and engineering research projects for its Aurora Early Science Program starting this month. Aurora, a massively parallel...
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HiPINEB Workshop on High Performance Networks Posts Agenda for February 5 in Austin
The IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era (HiPINEB) has published its program agenda. Held in...
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