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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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Podcast: Preemptible VMs Lower Cost of Cancer Research at Broad Insitutue
In this podcast, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing describes how the Broad Institute is mapping cancer genes with CycleCloud. According to Stowe, Cycle Computing...
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Preview of Fall 2015 HPC Events
After spending a lovely six straight weeks at home, I find myself marveling at how many conferences are in the queue this Fall leading up to SC15 in Austin. Starting...
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Video: Looking to the Future of NNSA Supercomputing
In this video, Douglas P. Wade from NNSA describes the computational challenges the agency faces in the stewardship of the nation's nuclear stockpile. As the Acting...
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Atos Deploys Petaflop Supercomputer in Brazil
Today Atos announced that the company has installed the first Petascale supercomputer in Brazil. Designed by Bull, the "Santos Dumont" system will be the largest...
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AMD Demos World’s First Hardware-Based Virtualized GPU Solution
The AMD graphics cards are uniquely equipped with AMD Multiuser GPU technology embedded into the GPU delivering consistent and predictable performance," said Sean...
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Video: Debugging HPC Applications at Massive Scales
In this video, LLNL scientists discuss the challenges of debugging programs at scale on the Sequoia supercomputer, which has 1.6 million processors. "Bugs in parallel...
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Video Retrospective: Ferranti Atlas – Britain’s First Supercomputer
This video celebrates the 50th anniversary of Britain's first supercomputer, the Ferranti Atlas. "When first switched on in December 1962, Atlas was the world's...
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Job of the Week: HPC Virtualization Specialist at Stanford University
Stanford University is seeking an HPC Virtualization Specialist in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Virtualization Specialist at Stanford University...
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Video: Quantum Computers and Quantum Chemistry
In this video from the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship meeting, Jarrod McClean from Harvard University presents: Quantum Computers...
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Video: Argonne’s Pete Beckman Describes the Challenges of Exascale
"Argonne National Laboratory is one of the laboratories helping to lead the exascale push for the nation with the DOE. We lead in a numbers of areas with software...
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Radio Free HPC Previews Tutorials at SC15
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews three of the excellent Tutorial sessions coming up at SC15. "The SC tutorials program is one of the highlights...
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Intel to Invest $50 Million in Quantum Computing
Today Intel announced a 10-year collaborative relationship with the Delft University of Technology and TNO, the Dutch Organization for Applied Research, to accelerate...
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Microsoft Boosts Azure with GS-Series VMs for Compute-intensive Workloads
Today Microsoft announced their GS-Series serious of premium VMs for Compute-intensive workloads. "Powered by the Intel Xeon E5 v3 family processors, the GS-series...
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Video: DARPA’s SyNAPSE and the Cortical Processor
"I will describe a decade-long, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional effort spanning neuroscience, supercomputing and nanotechnology to build and demonstrate...
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HPC User Forum Meetings Coming to Paris and Munich in October
The HPC User Forum has posted their Agendas for upcoming meetings in Europe next month. The post HPC User Forum Meetings Coming to Paris and Munich in OctoberinsideHPC...
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Video: Doing Computational Chemistry with Square Pegs and Round Holes
"Existing computational chemistry packages are tightly integrated, with few interchangeable components, data structures and algorithms. Interoperation between packages...
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DECI in Europe Issues Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources
The Distributed European Computing Initiative (DECI) in Europe has issued its 13th Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources. "Administered by PRACE, DECI enables...
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Time-lapse Video: Installation of Cray Supercomputer at UK Met Office
In this video, technicians install the first phase of a new Cray XC supercomputer at the U.K. Met Office. "Consisting of three phases spanning multiple years, the...
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Video: Why is HPC so Important to AI?
In this video from the SF Big Analytics Meetup, Bryan Catanzaro from Baidu presents: Why is HPC so important to AI? "We built Deep Speech because we saw the opportunity...
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