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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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Singularity 3.3.0 Goes GA
Today Sylabs announced the Generally Available Release of Singularity 3.3.0. As the premier Container platform for performance-sensitive workloads, this release...
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Considerations for Managing HPC Resources
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World writes that companies faced with increasing complexity are developing new services and...
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Advania Launches First HPC cloud service based on Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 processors
Today Advania Data Centers (ADC) announced the industry’s first HPC cloud service based on Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 processors. This combination provides unprecedented...
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Active Archive Alliance Report: Solving Data Growth Challenges
According to this new report, “Archival data is piling up faster than ever as organizations are quickly learning the value of analyzing vast amounts of previously...
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Ciena Bolsters Janet Network in the U.K. for Education and Research
Jisc in the UK is deploying Ciena’s Packet Networking platforms to enhance its Janet Network and provide high-speed connectivity across the UK. “Ciena’s platforms...
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SDSC Awarded NSF Grant for Triton Stratus
The National Science Foundation has awarded SDSC a two-year grant worth almost $400,000 to deploy a new system called Triton Stratus. "Triton Stratus will provide...
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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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