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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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Jetstream – Adding Cloud-based Computing to the National Cyberinfrastructure
Matt Vaughan from TACC presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Jetstream is the first user-friendly, scalable cloud environment for XSEDE. The system enables...
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Exxact to Distribute NVIDIA DGX-1 Deep Learning System
The NVIDIA DGX-1 features up to 170 teraflops of half precision (FP16) peak performance, 8 Tesla P100 GPU accelerators with 16GB of memory per GPU, 7TB SSD DL Cache...
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Video: How to Build a Neural Net in 4 Minutes
In this video, Siraj Rival from Twilio presents a quick tutorial on How to Build a Neural Net in 4 Minutes. Siraj describes himself as the Bill Nye of ComputerVideo...
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Call for Participation: hpc-ch Forum on Intra- and Inter-Site Networking
The hpc-ch Forum on Intra- and Inter-Site Networking has posted its Call for Participation. Hosted by the University of Zurich, the event will take place Thursday...
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Using High Performance Interconnects in Dynamic Environments
"Over the last years the OFA community has shown the potential of using high performance networks (InfiniBand) to boost the performance of virtualized cloud environments...
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Job of the Week: Senior Director of HPC Sales at DDN
DDN in Santa Clara is seeking a Senior Director of HPC Sales in our Job of the Week. "We are currently seeking an Account Executive to drive the development ofJob...
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Video: Exploiting HPC Technologies to Accelerate Big Data Processing
"This talk will present RDMA-based designs using OpenFabrics Verbs and heterogeneous storage architectures to accelerate multiple components of Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce...
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Learn Apache Hadoop with Spark in One Day
Hadoop and Spark clusters have a reputation for being extremely difficult to configure, install, and tune, but help is on the way. The good folks at Cluster Monkey...
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Silicon Mechanics is Intel’s ‘Channel Cares’ Partner of the Year
Today Silicon Mechanics announced that the company was recently named one of the Intel Corporation’s 2015 ISS Partner’s of the Year, specifically with Intel’s Channel...
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Distinguished Speaker Series Coming to ISC 2016
iscToday ISC 2016 announced that five renowned experts in computational science will participate in their new Distinguished Speaker series. Topics will include...
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How Verne Global is Moving HPC Workloads to Iceland
"At Verne Global we combine low power costs, free cooling for 365 days of the year and optimized infrastructure to reduce the total costs of ownership for yourHow...
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Video: The Internet of Machines
In this video, Steve Hebert from Nimbix presents: The Internet of Machines. "The good folks at Nimbix have also posted full a set video presentations from their...
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Radio Free HPC Recaps the GPU Technology Conference
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team recaps the GPU Technology Conference, which wrapped up last week in San Jose. Since Rich is traveling around in some desert...
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Modernizing Materials Code at OSC’s Intel Parallel Computing Center
A research team at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is beginning the task of modernizing a computer software package that leverages large-scale, 3-D modeling...
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NSCI Update from the HPC User Forum
In this video from the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Saul Gonzalez Martirena from NSF provides an update on the NSCI initiative. “As a coordinated research, development...
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Video: InfiniBand as Core Network in an Exchange Application
"Group Deutsche Boerse is a global financial service organization covering the entire value chain from trading, market data, clearing, settlement to custody. While...
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One Stop Systems 200TB Flash Storage Array SAN gets Rave Review
Today One Stop Systems announced the results of High-Tech Online Magazine Tom's IT PRO's review of the 200TB Flash Storage Array SAN (FSA-SAN). OSS' FSA-SAN provides...
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LANL Looks to Scality RING Storage for Trinity Supercomputer
Today Scality announced the production deployment of the Scality RING to power Los Alamo National Laboratory’s Trinity supercomputer, projected to be one of the...
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Interview: Cavium to Move ARM Forward for HPC at ISC 2016
"Cavium ThunderX has significant differentiation in the 64-bit ARM market as Cavium is the first ARMv8 vendor to deliver dual socket support with full ARMv8.1 implementation...
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