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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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How the European Processor Initiative is Leveraging RISC-V for the Future of Supercomputing
In this special guest feature, Calista Redmond writes that the European Processor Initiative is designing an HPC accelerator based on RISC-V. "The accelerator will...
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Video: Xilinx Unveils World’s Largest FPGA
Today Xilinx announced the expansion of its 16 nanometer (nm) Virtex UltraScale+ family to now include the world’s largest FPGA — the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P.Video...
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IBM Opens POWER Instruction Set Architecture
This week at The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, IBM announced it is opening the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). "The opening of the Power ISA,IBM...
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Exascale CANDLE Project to Fight Against Cancer
The CANcer Distributed Learning Environment, or CANDLE, is a cross-cutting initiative of the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer collaboration...
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NetApp EF600 Storage Array Speeds HPC and Analytics
Today NetApp announced the NetApp EF600 storage array. The EF600 is an end-to-end NVMe midrange array that accelerates access to data and empowers companies toNetApp...
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ANSYS Cloud HPC Increases Simulation throughput for Hundreds of Organizations
Engineers are unlocking increased compute capacity to achieve advancements in 5G, autonomous systems, electric vehicles, and other global megatrends thanks to ANSYS...
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Intel Talks at Hot Chips gear up for “AI Everywhere”
Today at Hot Chips 2019, Intel revealed new details of upcoming high-performance AI accelerators: Intel Nervana neural network processors, with the NNP-T for training...
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Singularity Enterprise to Accelerate Adoption of Containers with Cryptographically Verifiable Trust
Today Sylabs announced that Singularity Enterprise is now generally available as a self-hosted offering, making it faster and easier for businesses to adopt containerization...
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Cerebras Systems Unveils the Industry’s First Trillion Transistor Chip for AI
Today AI startup Cerebras Systems unveiled the largest chip ever built. "The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) is the largest chip ever built. 56x larger than any...
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UPMEM Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Apps to Run 20 Times Faster
Today UPMEM announced a Processing-in-Memory (PIM) acceleration solution that allows big data and AI applications to run 20 times faster and with 10 times lessUPMEM...
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Video: Unboxing the NVIDIA DGX-1 Supercomputer at Georgia Tech
In this video, Oded Green from NVIDIA unboxes a DGX-1 supercomputer at the College of Computing Data Center at Georgia Tech. "And while the DGX-1 arriving at Georgia...
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Simulating Shock Turbulence Interactions on Stampede II
In this special guest feature, Jorge Salazar from TACC writes that Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to better understand shock turbulence interactions...
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Micron Starts Volume Production of 1z Nanometer DRAM Process Node
Today Micron Technology announced advancements in DRAM scaling, making Micron the first memory company to begin mass production of 16Gb DDR4 products using 1z nm...
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Supercomputing Galactic Winds with Cholla
Using the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a team of astrophysicists created a set of galactic wind simulations of the highest resolution ever...
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HPC Innovation Excellence Award Showcases Physics-based Scientific Discovery
A collaboration that includes researchers from NERSC was recently honored with an HPC Innovation Excellence Award for their work on “Physics-Based UnsupervisedHPC...
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University of Leicester Adopts Cloudian Object Storage for Backup
Today Cloudian announced that the University of Leicester has deployed the company’s HyperStore object storage system as the foundation of a revamped backup platform...
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ACM Announces Winners of 2019 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
Today ACM announced that Milinda Shayamal Fernando of the University of Utah and Staci Smith of the University of Arizona are the recipients of the 2019 ACM-IEEE...
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GRC Launches Immersion Cooled Micro-Modular Data Center Solution
Today GRC announced the launch of a new micro-modular data center solution, the ICEraQ Micro, a rapidly deployable self-contained 24U server rack that can support...
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Altair PBS Works to Optimize Gadi Supercomputer at NCI
Supercomputing in Australia is slated to get a major boost this November with the deployment of the Fujitsu-made “Gadi” supercomputer, estimated to be 10 timesAltair...
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