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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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Job of the Week: HPC Compiler & Tools Engineer
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is seeking an HPC Compiler & Tools Engineer in our Job of the Week. "As a member of the Development Environment Group in the Livermore...
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Video: An Overview of Supercomputing
"Computers are an invaluable tool for most scientific fields. It is used to process measurement data and make simulation models of e.g. the climate or the universe...
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Accelerating Machine Learning with Open Source Warp-CTC
Today Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL) released Warp-CTC open source software for the machine learning community. Warp-CTC is an implementation of the #CTC...
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In Search Of: A Quantum Leap in Processors
The fastest supercomputers are built with the fastest microprocessor chips, which in turn are built upon the fastest switching technology. But, even the best semiconductors...
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Video: Bridges Supercomputer to be a Flexible Resource for Data Analytics
In this video, Nick Nystrom from PSC describes the new Bridges Supercomputer. Bridges sports a unique architecture featuring Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) large...
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Podcast: Simulating how Lasers can Transform Materials
Researchers are using XSEDE compute resources to study how lasers can be used to make useful materials. In this podcast, Dr. Zhigilei discusses the practical applications...
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Allinea Tools Help Deliver 30% Performance Boost in Reservoir Simulation
Today Allinea reports that developers of Roxar Software Solutions at Emerson Process Management used the Allinea Forge to increase the performance of their Tempest...
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New Paper Surveys Approximate Computing Techniques
A new paper from ORNL's Sparsh Mittal presents a survey of approximate computing techniques. Recently published in ACM Computing Surveys 2016, A Survey Of Techniques...
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Deep Learning, Ocean Modeling, and HPCG Come to ASC16 Student Supercomputer Challenge
Today the ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC16) announced details from their Preliminary Contest on January 6. College students from around the world were...
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Call for Papers: ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
The 2016 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place May 16-18 in Como, Italy. "We seek contributions...
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K Computer Runs World’s Largest-Scale Magnetic-Reversal Simulator
Today Fujitsu Limited announced it has developed the world's largest magnetic-reversal simulator. Developed in joint research with the National Institute for Materials...
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Brookhaven Lab Expands Computational Science Initiative
Today the Brookhaven National Laboratory announced that it has expanded its Computational Science Initiative (CSI). The programs within this initiative leverage...
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NOAA Upgrades Supercomputers to 5.78 Petaflops
Today NOAA reported a nearly four-fold increase in computing capacity to innovate U.S. forecasting in 2016. NOAA’s Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputer...
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Zadara Storage-as-a-Service comes to PCPC Direct
Today Zadara Storage announced that PCPC Direct has added the Zadara Storage Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) solution to their product portfolio to provide...
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FlyElephant Announces New Tools for Scientific Computing Data Management
Today FlyElephant announced new tools, a series of webinars, and the formation of a community around the platform. FlyElephant is a platform that provides scientists...
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TACC Joins iRODS Consortium
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced it has joined the iRODS Partner Program known as the iRODS Consortium. The post TACC Joins iRODS Consortium...
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Video: A Brief Introduction to OpenFabrics
Sean Hefty from Intel presented this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15. "OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) is a framework focused on exporting fabric...
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DDN Storage Enables NCAR to Advance Weather and Climate Science
Today DDN announced that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has selected DDN’s new SFA14K high-performance hyper-converged storage platform toDDN...
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HiPEAC16 Conference Returns to Prague January 18-20
The HiPEAC16 High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation conference returns to Prague next week. With three keynote talks, 33 workshops, nine tutorials...
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