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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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HPC Computational Research at New England Colleges on Display at SC20
Holyoke, MA, Nov. 16, 2020 – Computational research at New England colleges and universities will be on display during SC20, the largest conference in high performance...
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AMD Says New GPU Surpasses 10TFLOPS for HPC Acceleration
AMD today announced the new Instinct MI100 accelerator, which the company said is the first x86 server GPU to surpass 10 teraflops (FP64) performance. Built onAMD...
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At Virtual SC20: Fraunhofer’s Dr. Daniel Grünewald Talks GaspiLS, a Scalable Linear Solver Library for the Exascale Age
At Virtual SC20, Dr. Daniel Grünewald of the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany updated us on GaspiLS, a scalable linear solver library that the institute says isAt...
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At Virtual SC: HPE CTO Michael Woodacre Talks Progress toward Exascale and How HPC & AI Work in Tandem to Fight Disease
At Virtual SC20, we caught up with HPE’s Michael Woodacre, HPE Fellow and chief technology officer of HPC & Mission Critical Systems, who updated us on the company...
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At Virtual SC20: Bright Computing Talks the ‘New Era of HPC,’ Bright Cluster Manager 9.1 and Cluster-as-a-Service
We caught up at Virtual SC20 with two of Bright Computing’s senior execs, CEO Bill Wagner and CTO Martijn de Vries. Bright is a maker of software for deployingAt...
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At Virtual SC20: Catching up with Penguin Computing’s Expanding HPC Reach
At Virtual SC20, we checked in with Penguin Computing Chief Strategy Officer Matt Jacobs, who is helping guide the company’s rapidly expanding reach, encompassing...
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At Virtual SC20: How to Build a Supercomputer – Supermicro Showcases 3 LLNL HPC Clusters
At Virtual SC20, we sat down with Mike Scriber, he’s Supermicro’s senior director, server solution management, to talk about three supercomputing clusters the company...
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At Virtual SC20: AMAX Pushes the CPU-GPU Compute Envelop with PCIe Gen 4 for HPC/AI
At Virtual SC20, Dr. Rene Meyer, VP of technology at AMAX Information Technologies, spent time with us explaining developments and trends driving new levels ofAt...
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At Virtual SC20: An Update on the Fraunhofer Institute’s Carme, Where HPC Meets Interactive Machine Learning
At Virtual SC20, we spent time with Philipp Reusch, Scientific Assistant at Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Reusch is closely involved in the development...
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At Virtual SC20: VMware Talks Trends and Transformational Technology for Virtualized HPC Workloads
At Virtual SC20, VMware’s Mohan Potheri, the company’s principal systems and virtualization architect, talked with us about the broadening array of approaches used...
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At Virtual SC20: Speaking about Bespoke HPC and AI Solutions with Silicon Mechanics’ Solutions Architect
At Virtual SC20, we talked with Solutions Architect Andrew O’Neill of Bethel, WA-based Silicon Mechanics, a systems integrator founded in 2001 with a focus on HPC...
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HPC-Scale Data Management for the Enterprise That’s Easier and More Cost-Efficient than NAS
In this sponsored post, Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances, WekaIO, discusses how WekaFS is designed to enable organizations to maximize the...
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Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU
Nvidia today unveiled the A100 80GB GPU for the Nvidia HGXTM AI supercomputing platform with twice the memory of its predecessor. The new chip with HBM2e doubles...
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OpenMP ARB Releases OpenMP 5.1
Austin, TX – November 13, 2020 – The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Version 5.1 of the OpenMP API. With this release of the standard, OpenMP...
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Supermicro Liquid-Cooled ‘Ruby’ HPC Cluster Deployed at LLNL for COVID-19
San Jose, November 12, 2020 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a maker of enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology...
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Arm-based ‘Ookami’ Supercomputer Installed at Stony Brook
The Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) at Stony Brook University has installed an HPC system employing the same processor technology as the world...
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Quantum Combines Data Management and Storage in New Platform – ATFS
Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today unveiled its data and storage management platform – Quantum ATFS, the first network-attached storage platform to integrate real...
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Dr. Peter Braam Joins ThinkParQ as CTO
Kaiserslautern Germany, November 12th, 2020 – ThinkParQ, the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the appointment of industry pioneer...
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Using Workstations To Reshape Your Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
The study results summarized in this white paper show that firms are already using workstations to lower the cost, increase the security, and speed up their AIUsing...
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