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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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Podcast: Lisa Spelman on Intel Data-Centric Solutions
In this Chip Chat podcast, Lisa Spelman from Intel summarizes the recent Intel Data Centric Innovation Summit. In this interview, Spelman discusses Intel's view...
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Exploring the Convergence of AI, HPC & More
This fall, the Intel Extreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG) will host a free conference focused on key high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and...
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Visual Genomes Foundation Looks to Exascale for Ai
A new effort from the Visual Genomes Foundation (VGF) looks to move visual artificial intelligence forward in big way. The first step: learn and record exabytes...
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Tachyum Touts Benefits of Universal Processor at HOT CHIPS
This week at the Hot Chips conference, Tachyum CEO Dr. Radoslav Danilak described how the company's its Prodigy Universal Processor Chip combines the best attributes...
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Women in HPC Launches Chapters and Affiliates Pilot Program
Today the Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) group announced the launch of a Chapters and Affiliates Program to bring its vision and mission to the worldwide...
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Podcast: From Here to Ai with Jack Wells from Oak Ridge
In this Conversations with Dez podcast, Dez Blanchfield sits down with Jack Wells from ORNL to talk about about his personal & professional life journey, his role...
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Linda Gesenhues and Markus Höhnerbach to receive George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships
Today ACM announced that Linda Gesenhues of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Markus Höhnerbach of RWTH Aachen University are the recipients of the 2018...
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Why the Choice of DRAM in the Data Center is so Critical
By working with a manufacturer of DRAM products that deliver a diversity of components, data center operators can be assured that they will not have a patchwork...
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OFA Expands Mission to Boost Development of Advanced Network and Fabric Technologies
Today the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) unveiled an expanded mission to accelerate the development and adoption of advanced fabric technologies. This is a significant...
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Podcast: Bringing Complex Data To Life with Intel Select Solutions
In this Chip Chat podcast, Jim Jeffers from Intel describes his team's three important open source libraries for data center rendering that deliver rasterization...
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Intel to Host IXPUG eXtreme Performance User Group Sept. 25-28 in Oregon
Intel will host the Intel eXtreme Performance User Group (IXPUG) event Sept. 25-28 in Hillsboro, Oregon. "This IXPUG conference is focused on all aspects of employing...
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HPE Eagle Supercomputer to Triple Performance and Enhance Energy Efficiency at NREL
Today HPE announced it is building a new supercomputer for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that is more energy efficient and 3.5 times more powerful...
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Video: NVIDIA Announces Turing GPUs and CUDA Toolkit 10
Today at SIGGRPAH, NVIDIA announced its newest GPUs based on the new Turing architecture. " This fundamentally changes how computer graphics will be done, it’sVideo...
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Fast.AI Achieves Record ImageNet performance with NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs
The NVIDIA blog points us to this story on how Fast.ai just completed a new deep learning benchmark milestone. Using NVIDIA V100 GPUs on AWS with PyTorch, the company...
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Supercomputing Cardiac Arrhythmias
A team of researchers led by Mark Potse from Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest research centre are using high performance computing to study heart arrhythmias. It is hoped...
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Toronto Startup Launches HPCBOX- An Elastic HPC Cloud Platform
Today Toronto startup Drizti announced the availability of HPCBOX, a desktop-centric, intelligent workflow cloud HPC platform for automating and executing application...
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The Rigetti 128-qubit chip — What it means for quantum
Chad Rigetti writes that his company is building a 128-qubit quantum computer over the next 12 months. The company has already built the 128-qubit processing chip...
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Supercomputing HIV-1 Replication at TACC
Researchers are using TACC supercomputers in the fight against HIV. In a new study published in Nature, a team led by Cornell researcher found the naturally-occurring...
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Julia 1.0 release Opens the Doors for a Connected World
Today Julia Computing announced the Julia 1.0 programming language release. As the first complete, reliable, stable and forward-compatible Julia release, version...
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