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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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DownUnder GeoSolutions Moves to Skybox Datacenters for Oil & Gas Exploration
Today Australia-based DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) announced a move to Skybox Datacenters in Houston for its global expansion of a revolutionary oil and gas exploration...
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Supercomputing to Feed the World
Sharan Kalwani writes that that supercomputers a critical tool for predicting severe weather that could threaten entire regions with famine. "Models have been improved...
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Enter Your Team Now in the ISC 2019 Student Cluster Competition
Today the HPC-AI Advisory Council Call for Team Entries for the 2019 Student Cluster Competition in Frankfurt. To be held at ISC 2019, the competition seeks student...
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Hurry! Register Now for SC18 to Enjoy Early-Bird Rates
Are you coming to SC18 in Dallas next month? Now is your last chance to enjoy Early-Bird registration discount rates. "Are you an ACM, IEEE, or SIGHPC member? If...
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Atos Launches Open Edge and HPC Initiative for the coming 5G World
Today Atos announced a joint effort with E4, the Jülich Supecomputing Centre, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Huawei, Mellanox, and SUSE to help shorten time-to-market for HPC...
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Ampere Augments ARM Servers with New Developer Platform
Today ARM server vendor Ampere introduced a new developer platform and program to facilitate the open development of next-generation cloud applications. Available...
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Video: The March to Exascale
As the trend toward exascale HPC systems continues, the complexities of optimizing parallel applications running on them increase too. Potential performance limitations...
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NVIDIA HGX-2 Ai Supercomputer Comes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Today Oracle announced support for the NVIDIA HGX-2 platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Designed to meet the needs of the next generation of analytics, machine...
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Sunita Chandrasekaran Receives NSF Grant to Create Powerful Software Framework
Over at the University of Delaware, Julie Stewart writes that assistant professor Sunita Chandrasekaran has received an NSF grant to develop frameworks to adapt...
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1 Petaflop ROMEO Supercomputer Comes to Reims from Atos
Today the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne dedicated their new ROMEO supercomputer. A BullSequana X1000 model from Atos, ROMEO is ranked amongst the most-powerful...
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Open Source RAPIDS GPU Platform to Accelerate Predictive Data Analytics
Today NVIDIA announced a GPU-acceleration platform for data science and machine learning, with broad adoption from industry leaders, that enables even the largest...
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Nyriad to Power Blockchain-Enabled, AI-Ready Storage at Datacom
Today Hyperscale Storage Processing vendor Nyriad announced an exclusive agreement with Datacom to develop and deploy a next-generation computational storage solution...
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Centro Epson Meteo Moves HPC Weather Forecasting to Verne Global in Iceland
Today Verne Global announced that the Centro Epson Meteo meteorological forecasting organizations will start using the company's HPC optimized bare-metal infrastructure...
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How HPC can benefit Benefit Society
Sharan Kalwani writes that that one of the main reasons he got into computing long ago was the potential that he saw in using powerful news supercomputing tools...
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HPE Powers New Tesseract Supercomputer at EPCC
Over at EPCC, Professor Peter Boyle describes the new Tesseract supercomputer, which is hosted at EPCC's Advanced Computing Facility. DiRAC is part of the UK’sHPE...
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Cloud and Enterprise Adopting HPC-proven CPU-based Interactive, Photorealistic Rendering
The TACC Frontera supercomputer, which will become the fastest academic supercomputer in the United States when it becomes operational in 2019, will rely on CPUs...
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Sylabs Tunes Singularity 3.0 Containers for Machine Learning
Today Sylabs announced that it has released a new version of its innovative container software: Singularity 3.0. With new enterprise-class features, Singularity...
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Data Science Program at Argonne Looks to Machine Learning for New Breakthroughs
Over at Argonne, Nils Heinonen writes that four new projects for the ALCF Data Science Program that will utilize machine learning, deep learning, and other artificial...
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Summit Supercomputer Breaks Exaop Barrier on Neural Net Trained to Recognize Extreme Weather Patterns
A team of computational scientists from LBNL, ORNL, and engineers from NVIDIA has demonstrated an exascale-class deep learning application that has broken the exaop...
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