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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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IBM Bluemix Garage in France Fuels Cloud Development
This week IBM announced the opening of a Bluemix Garage in Nice, France to help European organizations of all sizes and industries accelerate the development and...
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Using Xeon + FPGA for Accelerating HPC Workloads
"The Exascale computing challenge is the current Holy Grail for high performance computing. It envisages building HPC systems capable of 10^18 floating point operations...
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Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Mount Sinai Health
Mount Sinai Health Systems in New York is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Mount...
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Improving Storm Forecasts with the Stampede Supercomputer
Performing experimental weather forecasts using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, researchers have gained a better understanding...
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Radio Free HPC Previews the GPU Technology Conference
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the GPU Technology Conference coming up April 4-7 in Silicon Valley. "GTC is the largest and most important event...
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Video: Protecting Your Data, Protecting Your Hardware
"Thanks to the arrival of SSDs, the performance of storage systems can be boosted by orders of magnitude. While a considerable amount of software engineering has...
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OpenACC Building Momentum going into GTC
Today the OpenACC standards group continues announced a set of additional hackathons and a broad range of learning opportunities taking place during the upcoming...
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Video: The State of Linux Containers
"With Docker v1.9 a new networking system was introduced, which allows multi-host network- ing to work out-of-the-box in any Docker environment. This talk provides...
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Lenovo Powers Phoenix Supercomputer at University of Adelaide
Researchers at the University of Adelaide will soon have access to a new Lenovo supercomputer named "Phoenix" with as much as 30 times more computing power than...
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How Intel Worked with the DEEP Consortium to Challenge Amdahl’s Law
Funded by the European Commission in 2011, the DEEP project was the brainchild of scientists and researchers at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in Germany...
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Co-Design Architecture: Emergence of New Co-Processors
"High performance computing has begun scaling beyond Petaflop performance towards the Exaflop mark. One of the major concerns throughout the development towardCo...
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Supercomputing Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change
A recent study conducted by the Barcelona Supercomputer Center suggests that calibrated model ensembles improve the trustworthiness of climate event attribution...
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Video: The Nvidia Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform
"Accelerated computing is transforming the data center that delivers unprecedented through- put, enabling new discoveries and services for end users. This talkVideo...
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Intel MPI Messaging Paper Wins ISC 2016 Hans Meuer Award
Today ISC 2016 announced that a research paper in the area of Message Passing Interface (MPI) performance, has been selected to receive the 2016 Hans Meuer Award...
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Tutorial on Deep Learning
Zaikun Xu from the Università della Svizzera Italiana presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "In the past decade, deep learning as a life-changing...
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High-Performance and Scalable Designs of Programming Models for Exascale Systems
DK Panda from Ohio State University presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "This talk will focus on challenges in designing runtime environments...
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Industry Shifts to Open Infrastructure as OpenPOWER Foundation Gains Momentum
Calista Redmond from IBM presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "The OpenPOWER Foundation was founded in 2013 as an open technical membership organization...
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Video: Welcome to HPC in Switzerland
Michele de Lorenzi from the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre presented this talk at the 2016 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference. "Founded in 1991,Video...
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Henry Newman on Why Workloads Matter More Than IOPS
Over at Enterprise Storage Forum, Henry Newman looks at why we should focus on how much work gets done rather than specifications as disk drives and SSDs get faster...
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