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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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Xilinx Steps Up with Alvea FPGA boards and Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform
Today FPGA maker Xilinx unveiled Versal, "the industry's first adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP)". The company also announced new Alveo FPGA cards,Xilinx...
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GPU-powered SQream DB Boosts Query Performance up to 150% for IBM POWER9
Today SQream announced that its GPU-powered SQream DB software now includes optimized support for the IBM POWER9 multi-core architecture. The powerful trinity of...
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Lenovo ThinkAgile System Certified for SAP HANA on Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Today Lenovo announced that it is one of the first server vendors certified for SAP HANA for hyperconverged infrastructure. "With Lenovo’s ThinkAgile HX7820 four...
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STULZ and Cloud&Heat team up with Watercooled Micro Data Center
Today STULZ announced a new strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies, a specialist in energy-efficient, scalable and reliable data centers. As part of...
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300K-Core SuperMUC-NG System Launches at LRZ in Germany
LRZ in Germany dedicated their new SuperMUC-NG (“next generation”) supercomputer last week in Munich. Built by Lenovo, the massive system uses innovative hot-water...
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SC18 Exhibits Selling Out
Today SC18 announced record exhibit sales for the conference, which takes place Nov. 11-16 in Dallas. "We are thrilled that so many new companies will be exhibiting...
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ISC 2019 Seeking Research Paper Submissions
Submissions are now open for ISC 2019 Research Paper Sessions. These sessions aim to provide first-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia,...
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Democratizing High Performance Computing: HPC Clusters — When you Need Them, How You Need Them and Where You Need Them
This sponsored post from Amazon Web Services’ Bala Thekkedath unpacks how deploying HPC clusters in the cloud gives you the freedom to get started when you want...
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New Paper: Survey of FPGAs for Convolutional Neural Networks
Sparsh Mittal has just published a new paper on the use of FPGAs for Convolutional Neural Networks. "Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently shown...
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SC18 Preview: “A Quantum Future of Computation” by Microsoft’s Matthias Troyer
SC18 is continuing its series of session previews this week with a look at an Invited Talk on Quantum Computing by Matthias Troyer from Microsoft Research. "Attempting...
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Argonne is Supercomputing Big Data from the Large Hadron Collider
Over at Argonne, Madeleine O’Keefe writes that the Lab is supporting CERN researchers working to interpret Big Data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world...
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HPC Server Market Jumps 27.6% in 2Q 2018
Hyperion Research reports that worldwide factory revenue for the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market jumped 27.6% to $3.7 billion in the second...
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Innovation Unbound: What Would You do with a Million Cores?
In this sponsored post from Ian Colle, General Manager-AWS Batch and HPC, for Amazon Web Services, he explores how we are always looking for resources to "do everything...
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Maximum Performance, Minimum Effort: Intel® Performance Libraries
"Over two decades, Intel continued its efforts to refine libraries optimized to coax the greatest performance from Intel® processors. In this video, Noah Clemons...
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Intel Beefs up FPGA Line
Today Intel introduced the Intel Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGA. The card leverages the Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon CPU...
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Rescale Partners Program to Deliver Big Compute to Enterprise Customers
Last week, Rescale announced the launch of its Powered by Rescale program with IBM as its first partner. "With the Powered by Rescale program, partners can deliver...
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Mellanox InfiniBand to Power Eagle Supercomputer coming to NREL
Today Mellanox announced that InfiniBand has been chosen to accelerate the new Eagle supercomputer at NREL. The pending 8 Petaflop system will consist of more than...
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Microsoft Previews Avere vFXT for Azure
Over at the Microsoft Blog, Rebecca Thompson writes that Avere vFXT software for Azure delivers new possibilities for running HPC workloads in the cloud. "WithMicrosoft...
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Supermicro Ai Supercomputer Sports 20 NVIDIA Tesla T4 Accelerators in 4U
Supermicro's new SuperServer 6049GP-TRT provides the superior performance required to accelerate the diverse applications of modern AI. "We see the combination...
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