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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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Composable Computing at SDSC
In this Q&A, SDSC Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas explains the rationale for composable systems and the approach taken with the new Expanse supercomputer...
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Long-time IBM HPC Strategist Turek Named CTO of DNA-based Storage Start-up
Long-time IBM HPC strategist David Turek has left the company after 25 years and has joined Catalog, which calls itself the world’s first DNA-based platform for...
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DOD Inks $32M HPC Deal with Liqid; Forms AI Partnership with DOE, Microsoft
The Department of Defense has made HPC news twice in the last few days – in one, the Army will spend $32 million on supercomputing technology from composable infrastructure...
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HPC-AI Advisory Council 2020 Australia Conference Features Inspired Experts & Works
Hosted by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) in collaboration with the HPC-AI Advisory Council, the HPC-AI Advisory Council 2020 Australia...
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Radio Free HPC: Is Amazon’s Graviton2 Ready for Prime (Time)?
The show starts on a high note, with Henry’s audio being amazingly echo free. Usually we hear a lot of echo as Henry talks, which is due to the rammed earth walls...
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Arm and DARPA Announce 3-Year Development Agreement
Arm and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a three-year partnership agreement to “enable the research community that supports...
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Veteran Argonne Supercomputers Help Convert CO2 into Ethanol
By supercomputing standards, Argonne National Lab’s Bebop (1.75 terflops, stood up in 2017, bumped off the Top500 list after the June 2019 ranking) and Blues (stood...
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I Really Don’t Care About TCO … It’s RCO I am Worried About
In this sponsored post by Adam Marko, Director of Life Science Solutions – Panasas, Inc., we look at what we are calling Research Cost of Ownership (RCO) and the...
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Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast – ECP Leadership Discusses Highlights, Challenges, Impact
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is tasked with guiding the U.S. effort to build a “capable exascale ecosystem” by the early to...
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UCSD’s Dr. Larry Smarr Named Tech Evangelist at Kazuhm
August 19, 2020—Kazuhm, a developer of technology and tools for maximizing IT efficiency, today announced that Dr. Larry Smarr will provide support to the Kazuhm...
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Brightskies Deploys Open Source RTM Application for Easy Optimization across Multiple Architectures
In this sponsored post on behalf of Intel, we see that in today’s high-performance computing applications, many different pieces of hardware can perform data-centric...
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IBM Launches 7nm POWER10 CPU
IBM today announced a new IBM POWER10 CPU family, its first 7nm form factor platform, built with Samsung, designed for enterprise hybrid cloud computing with up...
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An Adaptive Platform for Converged HPC/AI Workloads
In this sponsored post from our friends over at Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), we see that from many years of experience working with numerous customers, the company...
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AWS Announces GA of Quantum Development Environment
Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a development environment for exploring and designing quantum algorithms. AWS said...
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Panasas PanFS 8: Architectural Overview
Panasas has released this timely new white paper “Panasas PanFS 8: Architectural Overview.” The report takes a “breadth-first” tour of the architecture of the PanFS...
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MVAPICH, Altair, Arm DevSummit Announce Conference Agendas
Several organizations have released updates on upcoming conferences and user group meetings. Here’s a summary with links to further information. The MVAPICH User...
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Intel Optane Persistent Memory Tops IO500 List
Intel announced today that its Optane persistent memory (PMem), in combination with Intel’s open-source distributed asynchronous object storage (DAOS) solution,...
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Nissan Shifts to Oracle Cloud for CFD, 3D Visualization HPC Design Workloads
Oracle announced today that Nissan Motor Co. is migrating its on-premises engineering simulation HPC workloads to run on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Nissan...
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1st Student Cluster Competition Focusing on Racial Inclusion Slated for January
The inaugural Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition to include historically black and minority universities in the supercomputing challenge arena...
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