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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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oneAPI: Single Programming Model to Deliver Cross-Architecture Performance
Bill Savage from Intel gave this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference. "Learn about oneAPI, the new Intel-led industry initiative to deliver a high-performance...
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Swiss Conference & HPCXXL User Group Events Return to Lugano
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre will host the 11th annual Swiss Conference and bi-annual HPCXXL Winter Meeting April 6-9 in Lugano, Switzerland. "Explore...
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HLRS Inaugurates Hawk Supercomputer from HPE
HLRS officially dedicated their new Hawk supercomputer computer this week at a ceremony in Stuttgart, Germany. With a peak performance of approximately 26 Petaflops...
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Podcast: Preparing for HPC & AI Convergence in the Enterprise
In this interview, Dr. Meyer discusses AMAX’s focus on appliances for storage, cloud, and hyper-scale integration. Dr. Meyer goes into more depth about why training...
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CUDA-Python and RAPIDS for blazing fast scientific computing
Abe Stern from NVIDIA gave this talk at the ECSS Symposium. "We will introduce Numba and RAPIDS for GPU programming in Python. Numba allows us to write just-in-time...
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Cooling unit saves water at Sandia supercomputing center
A new high efficiency cooling unit installed on the roof of Sandia National Laboratories’ supercomputer center saved 554,000 gallons of water during its first six...
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HPC User Forum to Explore AI-HPDA Use In Banking and Investment Firms
Today Hyperion Research announced high-profile speakers from major banking and investment firms will highlight the agenda at the next HPC User Forum. Thomas Thurston...
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LBNL Breaks New Ground in Data Center Optimization
Berkeley Lab has been at the forefront of efforts to design, build, and optimize energy-efficient hyperscale data centers. “In the march to exascale computing,LBNL...
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GE Research Leverages World’s Top Supercomputer to Boost Jet Engine Efficiency
GE Research has been awarded access to the world’s #1-ranked supercomputer to discover new ways to optimize the efficiency of jet engines and power generation equipment...
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Video: From Brains to Agents and Back
Jane Wang from DeepMind gave this talk NeurIPS 2019. "Building on the connection between biological and artificial reinforcement learning, our workshop will bring...
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AMD EPYC Cloud Adoption Grows with Google Cloud
Today Google Cloud announced the beta availability of N2D VMs on Google Compute Engine powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The N2D family of VMs is a greatAMD...
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AMD Powers CARA Supercomputer from NEC in Dresden
The DLR German Aerospace Center dedicated its new CARA supercomputer in Dresden on February 5, 2020. With 1.746 Petaflops of performance on the Linpack benchmark...
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Supercomputing Asia 2020 Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19 Virus
The Supercomputing Asia 2020 conference has been cancelled in light of COVID-19 developments. "We regret to inform you that we will be cancelling the coming SupercomputingAsia...
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UK to invest £1.2 billion for Supercomputing Weather and Climate Science
Today the UK announced plans to invest £1.2 billion for the world’s most powerful weather and climate supercomputer. The government investment will replace MetUK...
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Isambard 2 at UK Met Office to be largest Arm supercomputer in Europe
The UK Met Office been awarded £4.1m by EPSRC to create Isambard 2, the largest Arm-based supercomputer in Europe. The powerful new £6.5m facility, to be hosted...
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Video: Toward a General AI-Agent Architecture
Richard S. Sutton from DeepMind Alberta gave this talk NeurIPS 2019. "In practice, I work primarily in reinforcement learning as an approach to artificial intelligence...
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Video: Overview of HPC Interconnects
Ken Raffenetti from Argonne gave this talk at ATPESC 2019. "The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) provides intensive, two-week training...
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Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at Washington State University
CIRC at Washington State University is seeking an HPC Systems Administrator in our Job of the Week. "Ideal candidates should have in-depth experience with the provisioning...
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SC 2020 Launches HPC Career Day
Fostering STEM education is a key to the future of high performance computing. Along these lines, ISC 2020 HPC Career Day will give 200 job seekers interested in...
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