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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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Call for Applications: NCSA GPU Hackathon in September
NCSA is now accepting team applications for the Blue Waters GPU Hackathon. This event will take place September 10-14, 2018 in Illinois. "General-purpose Graphics...
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Unified Deep Learning Configurations and Emerging Applications
This is the final post in a five-part series from a report exploring the potential machine and a variety of computational approaches, including CPU, GPU and FGPA...
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Japan Meteorological Agency to deploy Two Cray XC50 Supercomputers
Today Cray announced that the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is implementing two Cray XC50 supercomputers at its site in Kiyose, Tokyo. These systems are expected...
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AWS Announces EC2 Bare Metal instances and C5D instances with local SSD Storage
HPC in the Cloud got a boost this week with this announcement of two updates to the Amazon EC2 instance family. EC2 Bare Metal instances provide customers’ applications...
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Video: Doug Kothe Looks Ahead at The Exascale Computing Project
In this video, Doug Kothe from ORNl provides an update on the Exascale Computing Project. "With respect to progress, marrying high-risk exploratory and high-return...
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Altair acquires FluiDyna CFD Technology for GPUs
Altair has acquired Germany-based FluiDyna GmbH, a renowned developer of NVIDIA CUDA and GPU-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and numerical simulation technologies...
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Podcast: Supercomputing the Emergence of Material Behavior
In this TACC Podcast, Chemists at the University of California, San Diego describe how they used supercomputing to design a sheet of proteins that toggle between...
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New Tachyum Prodigy Chip has “More than 10x the Performance of Conventional Processors”
Today Silicon Valley startup Tachyum Inc. unveiled its new processor family – codenamed “Prodigy” – that combines the advantages of CPUs with GP-GPUs, and specialized...
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Quantum Storage Solutions Power Self-driving Cars for AutonomouStuff
Today Quantum Corporation named AutonomouStuff LLC as its primary partner for storage distribution in the automotive market, enabling them to deliver Quantum'sQuantum...
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iRODS Consortium adds Members and Joins OpenSFS
iRODS is taking an active role in Lustre community. The iRODS Consortium recently signed on to the Open Scalable File Systems, Inc (OpenSFS), a nonprofit organization...
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Equus Compute Solutions Named Intel 2018 Cloud and HPC Data Center Specialist
Today Equus Compute Solutions announced that Intel has identified Equus as an Intel Platinum 2018 Technology Provider. Furthermore, Intel has distinguished Equus...
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DDN and Parabricks Accelerate Genome Analysis
Today DDN announced a Parabricks technology solution that provides massive acceleration for analysis of human genomes. The breakthrough platform combines GPU supercomputing...
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Nimbix to Host the 2018 HPC Cloud Summit on June 6 in Silicon Valley
Today HPC Cloud provider Nimbix announced that their 2018 HPC Cloud Summit will take place June 6 in Silicon Valley. "We are bringing together the best and brightest...
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Asetek Receives Order For New HPC Cluster From Fujitsu
Today Asetek announced an order from Fujitsu, an established global data center OEM, for a new High Performance Computing system at a currently undisclosed location...
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Pawsey Centre adds NVIDIA Volta GPUs to its HPC Cloud
One year after launching its cloud service, Nimbus, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has now expanded with NVIDIA GPU nodes. The GPUs are currently being installed...
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Celebrating 20 Years of the OpenMP API
"The first version of the OpenMP application programming interface (API) was published in October 1997. In the 20 years since then, the OpenMP API and the slightly...
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BioScience gets a Boost Through Order-of-Magnitude Computing Gains
Intel is working with leaders in the field to eliminate today’s data processing bottlenecks. In this guest post from Intel, the company explores how BioScienceBioScience...
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DDN GridScaler Powers Neuroscience and Behavioral Research at Harvard
Today DDN that Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Computing (FASRC) has deployed DDN’s GRIDScaler GS7KX parallel file system appliance with...
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Ohio Supercomputer Center Upgrades HPC Access Portal
The Ohio Supercomputer Center has updated its innovative web-based portal for accessing high performance computing services. As part of this effort, OSC recently...
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