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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: A comprehensive Simulation of a Solar Flare
In this video, scientists simulate the formation of a solar flare, including for the first time the spectrum of light emissions known to be associated with such...
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NVIDIA Quadro Comes to the Microsoft Azure Cloud
NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Workstations are now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, enabling virtual workstation performance for more artists, engineers and...
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200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand to Power New Atos Supercomputers at CSC in Finland
Last week in Finland, Mellanox announced that its 200 Gigabit HDR InfiniBand solutions were selected to accelerate a multi-phase supercomputer system at CSC – the...
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Supercomputing the Formation of Black Holes
New research based on simulations using the Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA reveals that when galaxies assemble extremely rapidly -- and sometimes violently -...
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Rice Oil & Gas Conference in March to look for ways to meet HPC Demand
Rice University’s Ken Kennedy Institute will host the 12th annual Rice Oil and Gas High Performance Computing Conference (OGHPC) in Houston, Texas on March 4 -Rice...
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Choice Comes to HPC: A Year in Processor Development
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World writes that a whole new set of processor choices could shake up high performance computing...
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Podcast: Weather Forecasting Goes Crowdsourcing, Q means Quantum
In this episode of Radio Free HPC, Dan, Henry, and Shahin start with a spirited discussion of IBM’s recent announcement regarding their crowd sourced weather prediction...
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Podcast: How AI and HPC Are Converging with Support from Intel Technology
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dr. Pradeep Dubey, Intel Fellow and director of its Parallel Computing Lab, explains why it makes sense for the HPC and Ai to come...
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Queen Mary University to Drive AI Analysis of History
Queen Mary University of London is leading a major new research project, ‘Living with Machines,’ which is set to be one of the biggest and most ambitious humanities...
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Ayar Labs Readies Optical Interconnect Silicon to Meet Industry Demand
Ayar Labs is leveraging its recent Series A funding to bring optical interconnect silicon to the Cloud, HPC, and Telecommunication markets. "We’re seeing significant...
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Dell EMC Powers Powers Physics at Nikhef with AMD EPYC Servers
The Nikhef National Institutee for Subatomic Physics in Amsterdam has expanded its data center with a cluster of powerful Dell EMC PowerEdge R6415 servers powered...
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Video: Lenovo & Intel Give Platform to University AI Researchers
For the second year, Lenovo, the largest worldwide provider of supercomputers, and Intel, a leader in the semiconductor industry, co-sponsored the University Artificial...
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Reflections on HPC Past, Present, and Future
In this special guest feature, Joe Landman from Scalability.org looks at technology trends that are driving High Performance Computing. "HPC has been moving relentlessly...
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Supercomputing Cleaner Power Plants
Researchers are looking to HPC to help engineer cost-effective carbon capture and storage technologies for tomorrow's power plants. "By combining new algorithmic...
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Supercomputing Sea Fog Development to Prevent Maritime Disasters
Over at the XSEDE blog, Kim Bruch from SDSC writes that an international team of researchers is using supercomputers to shed new light on how and why a particular...
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France to Double Supercomputing Capacity with Jean Zay Ai System from HPE
HPE is building a new Ai supercomputer for GENCI in France. Called Jean Zay, the 14 Petaflop system is part of an artificial intelligence initiative called forFrance...
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As Liquid Cooling Gets Hot, CoolIT Systems Secures Round of Funding
Last week, Canadian liquid cooling vendor CoolIT Systems announced that the company has partnered with Vistara Capital Partners as the company expands production...
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Apply Now for the ISC 2019 Travel Grant
Students and Young Researchers are encouraged to apply for the ISC Travel Grant program. It's a great way for HPC folks to get to the ISC High Performance conference...
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Oracle Expands Cloud Business with Next-Gen Data Center in Canada
Oracle just announced the opening of a Toronto data center to support in regional customer demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle’s next-generation cloud...
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