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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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Video: Supercomputing Sediment Transport in Estuaries
In this video, Salme Cook from the University of New Hampshire describes how she is using NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer to model estuaries. One of the big challenges...
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Podcast: Is Cloud too expensive for HPC?
Is Cloud too expensive for HPC? Enquiring minds want to know, as does the HPC community whose single-minded obsession with maximum price-performance is notorious...
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Supercomputing Heat Transfer between 2D Electronic Components
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputing resources in the search for new materials for power-efficient electronics. "Using a combination of calculations on XSEDE...
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CRAG Adopts Pure Storage for Agricultural Genomics
The Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) in Spain has announced plans to deploy Pure Storage solutions to improve its high performance computingCRAG...
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Bill Kramer to Lead Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
William Kramer has been selected as the next director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. "It’s our great fortune to recruit Bill, who is known and honored...
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Fujitsu to Deploy Gadi Supercomputer at NCI in Australia
Today Fujitsu announced a contract to upgrade the Australia's fastest supercomputer at NCI. Called "Gadi," the new supercomputer will replace the NCI's currentFujitsu...
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Virginia Tech researchers lead breakthrough in quantum computing
Large, error-correcting quantum computers envisioned today could be decades away, yet experts are vigorously trying to come up with ways to use existing and near...
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Atos Powers HPC for Genomic Pilot Platform
Atos was recently selected by GCS AURAGEN to provide and orchestrate the high-performance computing infrastructure and storage of a new genomic pilot platform for...
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VSC-4 from Lenovo is Austria’s most powerful supercomputer
Lenovo has deployed the fastest supercomputer in Austria. Installed by EDV-Design at TU Wien, the water cooled Vienna Scientific Cluster 4 (VSC-4) ranks #82 inVSC...
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Accelerating High-Resolution Weather Models with Deep-Learning Hardware
Sam Hatfield from the University of Oxford gave this talk at the PASC19 conference. "In this paper, we investigate the use of mixed-precision hardware that supports...
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DOE Funds $37 Million for Materials and Chemistry Research in Quantum Information Science
Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $37 million in funding for targeted research in materials and chemistry to advance the important emerging field...
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GRC to Tailor Datacenter Immersion Cooling for Japanese Market
Today immersion cooling provider GRC announced a new partnership and licensing agreement with Nihon Form Service (NFS), a Tokyo-based manufacturer of IT and communications...
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Video: Update on the Exascale Computing Project
In this video, ECP Director Doug Kothe provides an update on the Exascale Computing Project. ECP has mission to ensure that a capable exascale computing ecosystem...
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AI Approach Points to Bright Future for Fusion Energy
Researchers are using Deep Learning techniques on DOE supercomputers to help develop fusion energy. "Unlike classical machine learning methods, FRNN—the first deep...
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Globus Integrates with Box Cloud Content Management
Today the Globus research data management service announced the general availability of Globus for Box, a new solution for seamlessly connecting Box with an organization...
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Configuring Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for Best Performance
In this video, Dave Larsen describes how to configure Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for best performance. "Intel Optane DC persistent memory is a revolutionary...
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Learn about Migrating HPC Workloads at niva Cloud Meetups
Univa is hosting a series of Cloud Meetups September through October in nine cities. "Come and spend a few hours to learn about how to avoid the pitfalls of migrating...
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NVIDIA Launches .K. Technology Center to Advance AI Research
EPCC, Hartree Centre, and the University of Reading are the first to join the NVIDIA AI Technology Center, which provides a collaborative community for world-class...
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Supercomputing Complex Materials with QMCPACK
An effort within the Exascale Computing Project is developing a QMC methods software named QMCPACK to find, predict, and control materials and properties at the...
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