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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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Video: Megware Direct Liquid Cooling at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Thomas Blum from Germany's Megware describes the company's innovative hot water cooling system. The Slide SX-LC system is cooled by...
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Supercomputing and the Search for Dark Matter
Over at CSCS, Simone Ulmer writes that Particle physicists using the Piz Daint supercomputer have determined what is known as the scalar quark content of the proton...
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Job of the Week: Client Service Specialist at Ohio State
Ohio State University is seeking a Client Service Specialist in our Job of the Week. "The Ohio Supercomputer Center provides high-performance computing (HPC) services...
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LLNL Dedicates New Supercomputer Facility
Today officials from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and government representatives today dedicated a new supercomputing facility...
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Funding Cut for Bull Supercomputer Fighting Zika in Brazil
Rodrigo Viga Gaier writes that scientists in Brazil will have to do without an ally in the race to combat the Zika virus. The Santos Dumont supercomputer has been...
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Dell & OpenHPC at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Onur Celebioglu from Dell describes how the company is working with the OpenHPC Community to ease the deployment of high performance...
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NCAR Awards 42 Million Core Hours on Yellowstone Supercomputer
The Wyoming-NCAR Allocations Panel evaluated a record-high nine requests,” says Bryan Shader, UW’s special assistant to the vice president for research and economic...
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RSC Tornado with Intel Xeon Phi Sports 528 Teraflops Per Cabinet
Today the RSC Group out of Russia announced a new generation of high-performance scalable and energy-efficient RSC Tornado solution with direct liquid cooling based...
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SUSE Powers OpenHPC at ISC 2016
With the OpenHPC stack, you can leap forward with a validated, tested and secure infrastructure software stack and get to product in a fraction of the time. This...
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Video: Student Cluster Competition Awards Ceremony at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Gilad Shainer from the HPC Advisory Council hosts the Student Cluster Awards Ceremony. "The overall winning team thisVideo...
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Supercomputing the Mystery of Astrophysical Jets
Over at NICS, Scott Gibson writes that researchers are using XSEDE supercomputing resources to simulate the gaseous outflows from black holes known as astrophysical...
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PRACE Elects New Leadership
The PRACE Council in Europe has elected Prof Dr Ir Anwar Osseyran of SURF/SURFsara as Chair and Dr Sergi Girona of BSC was elected Vice-Chair. PRACE – the Partnership...
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Video: Bob Wisniewski on OpenHPC at ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Bob Wisniewski from Intel provides and update on OpenHPC community activities. "OpenHPC is a collaborative, community effort that initiated...
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Video: Steve Conway from IDC Recaps ISC 2016
In this video from ISC 2016, Steve Conway from IDC recaps the event. "Attended by over 3,000 individuals, ISC is a not-to-miss event for the high performance computing...
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Interview: Why DDN is Dominating the TOP500
Today DDN announced it has increased its leadership as the dominant storage provider of the world’s fastest supercomputers for the eighth consecutive year withInterview...
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SGI to Power 1.9 Petaflop Supercomputer at University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo has chosen SGI to perform advanced data analysis and simulation within its Information Technology Center. The center is one of Japan's major...
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Supercomputer Power Management
Today’s HPC supercomputers have significant power requirements that must be considered as part of their Total Cost of Ownership. In addition, efficient power management...
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Thomas Sterling presents: HPC Achievement and Impact 2016
Thomas Sterling presented this keynote at ISC 2016 in Frankfurt. "Even as the hundred petaflops era is coming within sight, more dramatic programs to achieve exaflops...
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KAUST Empowers Researchers to Think Big
In this special guest feature, Jane Glasser writes that Saudi Arabia has moved into the global supercomputing top ten with Shaheen II, a 200,000-core behemoth that...
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