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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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ExaNeSt European Consortium to Develop Exascale Architecture
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World reports that a new Exascale computing architecture using ARM processors is being developed...
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Video: Theta & Aurora – Big Systems for Big Science
"Aurora’s revolutionary architecture features Intel’s HPC scalable system framework and 2nd generation Intel Omni-Path Fabric. The system will have a combined total...
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2016 OpenPOWER Summit Announces Speaker Agenda
Today, the OpenPOWER Foundation announced the lineup of speakers for the OpenPOWER Summit 2016, taking place April 5-8 at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC)...
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Video: Supercomputing at the University of Buffalo
In this WGRZ video, researchers describe supercomputing at the Center for Computational Research at the University of Buffalo. "The Center’s extensive computing...
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SURFsara in the Netherlands Upgrades Bull Supercomputer to 1.8 Petaflops
Today SURFsara in the Netherlands announced it will expand the capacity of their Cartesius national supercomputer in the second half of 2016. With an upgrade to...
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Students: Apply for International Summer School on HPC Challenges by Feb. 15
The deadline is just one week away for Students to apply for the International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences. "Graduate students and...
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Call for Contributions: Hot Chips 2016
hotchipsThe Hot Chips 2016 conference has issues its Call for Proposals. The event takes place August 21-23 in Cupertino, California. "Presentations at HOT CHIPS...
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Watson for President Foundation Explores AI as Commander-in-Chief
If the current set of Presidential candidates has you down, the Watson for President Foundation may just have an answer for you. As an independent organizationWatson...
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Video: AMD’s next Generation GPU and High Bandwidth Memory Architecture
"HBM is a new type of CPU/GPU memory (“RAM”) that vertically stacks memory chips, like floors in a skyscraper. In doing so, it shortens your information commute...
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Video: Meet IME – The World’s First Burst Buffer
"DDN’s IME14K revolutionizes how information is saved and accessed by compute. IME software allows data to reside next to compute in a very fast, shared pool of...
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Video: Altera’s Stratix 10 – 14nm FPGA Targeting 1GHz Performance
altera2In this video from the 2015 Hot Chips Conference, Mike Hutton from Altera presents: Stratix 10 Altera’s 14nm FPGA Targeting 1GHz Performance. "Stratix 10...
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Job of the Week: Information Technologist at ICER at Michigan State
ICER at Michigan State is seeking an Information Technologist in our Job of the Week. "As a joint appointment between Michigan State University’s Information Technology...
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Agenda Posted for HPC User Forum in Tucson, April 11-13
IDC has published the agenda for their next HPC User Forum. The event will take place April 11-13 in Tucson, AZ. "Don't miss the chance to hear top experts on these...
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Chalk Talk: What is a Data Lake?
"If you think of a data mart as a store of bottled water – cleansed and packaged and structured for easy consumption – the data lake is a large body of water in...
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Video: Bill Dally on Scaling Performance in the Post-Dennard Era
"It was indicated in my keynote this morning there are two really fundamental challenges we're facing in the next two years in all sorts of computing - from supercomputers...
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ALCF Celebrates 10 Years of Leadership Computing
This week, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) turns one decade old. ALCF is home to Mira, the world's fifth-fastest supercomputer, along with teams...
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Video: Mars – A 64-Core ARMv8 Processor
In this video from the 2015 Hot Chips Conference, Charles Zhang from Phytium presents: Mars - A 64-Core ARMv8 Processor. Formed in China in 2012, Phytium is a unique...
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Mira Supercomputer Shaping Fusion Plasma Research
The IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer Mira, housed at the Argonne national laboratory Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ACLF), is delivering new insights intoMira...
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Poznan Launches Eagle Supercomputer with Liquid Cooling from CoolIT Systems
Today CoolIT Systems announced that it has successfully completed the second deployment of its Rack DCLC liquid cooling solution at the Poznan Supercomputing and...
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