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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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Intel Rolls Out 48-Core Cascade Lake-SP Xeon Processors for HPC, AI, & Data-centric Workloads
Today Intel unveiled a new portfolio of data-centric solutions consisting of "Cascade Lake-SP" Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel Optane DC memory and storage...
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New Fujitsu Technology Accelerates Deep Learning on ResNET-50
Today Fujitsu Laboratories announced that it has developed technology to improve the speed of deep learning software, which has now achieved the world's highest...
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Supercomputing the Complexities of Brian Waves
Scientists are using the Comet supercomputer at SDSC to better understand the complexities of brain waves. With a goal of better understanding human brain development...
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LRZ in Germany joins the OpenMP effort
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Germany has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research...
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Podcast: How the EZ Project is Providing Exascale with Lossy Compression for Scientific Data
In this podcast, Franck Cappello from Argonne describes EZ, an effort to effort to compress and reduce the enormous scientific data sets that some of the ECP applications...
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AFRL Unveils Sharable Classified Supercomputing Capability
The Air Force Research Laboratory has unveiled the first-ever shared classified Department of Defense high performance computing capability at the AFRL DOD Supercomputing...
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Inspur to Offer BeeGFS Storage Systems for HPC and AI Clusters
Today Inspur announced that it will offer integrated storage solutions with the BeeGFS filesystem. BeeGFS, a leading parallel cluster file system with a distributed...
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NVIDIA GPUs Speed Altair OptiStruct structural analysis up to 10x
Last week at GTC, Altair announced that it has achieved up to 10x speedups with the Altair OptiStruct structural analysis solver on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated system...
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Agenda Posted for MSST Mass Storage Conference in May
The Massive Storage Systems and Technology Conference (MSST) posted their preliminary speaker agenda. Keynote speakers include Margo Seltzer and Mark Kryder, along...
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Big Compute Podcast: Accelerating HPC Workflows with AI
In this Big Compute Podcast, Gabriel Broner from Rescale and Dave Turek from IBM discuss how AI enables the acceleration of HPC workflows. "HPC can benefit from...
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GRC Partners to Provide Worldwide Support and Server Warranties for Immersion Cooling
We've been hearing more and more about immersive cooling for HPC, but what happens to system warranties in these kinds of installations? Today GRC took a step to...
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Nor-Tech Powers LIGO and IceCube Nobel-Physics Prize-Winning Projects
Today HPC integrator Nor-Tech announced participation in two recent Nobel Physics Prize-Winning projects. The company's HPC gear will help power the Laser Interferometer...
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Data Management: The Elephant in the Room for HPC Hybrid Cloud
While there are many benefits to leveraging the cloud for HPC, there are challenges as well. Along with security and cost, data handling is consistently identified...
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Bo Ewald joins quantum computing firm ColdQuanta as CEO
Today quantum computing startup ColdQuanta announced the appointment of Robert “Bo” Ewald as president and chief executive officer. Ewald is well-known in highBo...
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Pioneers in Deep Learning to Receive ACM Turing Award
Today ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made...
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Ai comes to MATLAB and Simulink with new 2019a release
Today MathWorks introduced Release 2019a of MATLAB and Simulink. The release contains new products and important enhancements for artificial intelligence (AI),Ai...
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E-CAS Project to Explore Clouds for Acceleration of Science
Can the Cloud power ground-breaking research? A new NSF-funded research project aims to provide a deeper understanding of the use of cloud computing in accelerating...
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D-Wave Leap Quantum Cloud Service comes to Europe and Japan
Today D-Wave Systems announced the geographic expansion of its Leap quantum cloud service to 33 countries in Europe and Asia. According to the company, Leap isD...
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Perth’s GPU Hackathon looks to speed research computing
The second annual GPU Hackathon kicked off in Perth this week, a collaboration between Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NVIDIA and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre...
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