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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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Addressing Climate Change Uncertainties with Petascale Computing
"This collaborative research between the University of Illinois, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Maryland is aimed at usingAddressing...
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Trends in HPC Leading to Exascale
Over at the Altair Blog, Bill Nitzburg has started a series of posts looking at the road to Exascale. He starts by looking back at the trends that have lead usTrends...
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Peter V. Coveney to Keynote ISC Cloud & Big Data
Today the ISC Cloud & Big Data conference announced that Professor Peter V. Coveney from University College London will be their keynote speaker. Coveney will discuss...
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Radio Free HPC Previews ISC 2015
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ISC 2015 conference, which takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to a great technicalRadio...
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Video: 1.68 Petaflop Prometheus Supercomputer Comes to Cyfronet
In this video, officials from Cyfronet describe Prometheus, a new HP Apollo 8000 supercomputer with 1.68 Petaflops of peak performance. The post Video: 1.68 Petaflop...
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Video: Supercomputing the Human Brain at Jülich
In this video, Prof. Dr. Dirk Pleiter from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre describes how Jülich is creating a 3D model of the human brain. "Jülich Supercomputing...
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Job of the Week: HPC Grid Engineer at Open Systems Technologies
Open Systems Technologies in New York City is seeking an HPC Grid Engineer in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Grid Engineer at Open Systems Technologies...
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HPC News Bytes for Friday, June 26
While we're always on the lookout for HPC news, not everything makes it to the front page. Notable items from this week include new benchmarks for 100GB Ethernet...
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Video: Supercomputing Exoplanets
Astronomers Erika Nesvold (UMBC) and Marc Kuchner (NASA Goddard) essentially created a virtual Beta Pictoris in the computer and watched it evolve over millions...
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Time to Unite Exascale and Big Data
In this video, Dan Reed from the University of Iowa describes the era of Exascale Computing and Big Data. In a recent paper co-authored with Jack Dongarra, Reed...
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Materials Discovery by Computation – a Revolution Still in the Making
"We will describe recent progress and successes obtained in predicting properties of matter by quantum simulations, and discuss algorithmic challenges in connection...
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Video: Petascale Supercomputing for Space-Based Earth Science
"We have made substantial progress towards three transformative contributions: (1) we are the first team to formally link high-resolution astrodynamics design and...
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Video: Satoshi Matsuoka on HPC Trends from PASC15
In this video from PASC15, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich discusses HPC trends with Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Along the way, Matsuoka...
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Ancillary Events Line up for ISC 2015 in Frankfurt
With ISC 2015 coming up in July, a number of ancillary events have been scheduled in Frankfurt to take advantage of this annual gathering of over 2500 supercomputing...
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GE and Cascade Optimize Gas Turbine Simulation
Today GE announced a multi-year joint development agreement with Cascade Technologies to improve combustion simulation software. With new visualaztion capabilities...
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Interview: PBS Pro is Biggest Release Ever for Altair
Today Altair released version 13 of PBS Professional workload manager. To learn more, we caught up with Bill Nitzburg, CTO for Altair PBS Pro. The post Interview...
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IBTA Launches the RoCE Initiative
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the launch of the RoCE Initiative to further the advancement of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology...
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Dell Ups its HPC Game with New PowerEdge C-Series
Today Dell announced the PowerEdge C6320 server for HPC and Big Data. With twice the performance of its predecessor on the LINPACK benchmark, the PowerEdge C6320...
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Video: Mellanox Launches Spectrum 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch
In this video, Mellanox launches their new 100G end-to-end Ethernet solutions in New York City. The post Video: Mellanox Launches Spectrum 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet...
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