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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: Benchmarking as the Answer to HPC Performance and Architecture Questions
"This presentation offers an impartial look at benchmarking of HPC systems by Andrew Jones (@hpcnotes), NAG VP Strategic HPC Consulting & Services. This is described...
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DNN Implementation, Optimization, and Challenges
This is the third in a five-part series that explores the potential of unified deep learning with CPU, GPU and FGPA technologies. This post explores DNN implementation...
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Supercomputing How Cancer Spreads through Superdiffusion
Over a the University of Texas at Austin, Marc Airhart writes that researchers are using TACC supercomputers to better understand the physics behind the spreadSupercomputing...
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Quobyte Joins STAC Benchmark Council to help Financial Services Solve Storage Challenges
Today hyperscale storage provider Quobyte announced that it has accepted an invitation to join the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Benchmark Council...
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BSC to host the RISC-V Workshop on the Road to European Processor Initiative
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center will host the RISC-V Workshop next week, a gathering the open source processor design community to share RISC-V updates, projects...
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Fast.ai Trains Neural Net in Record Time with Super Convergence
Over at the Fast.AI Blog, Jeremy Howard writes that his Startup has achieved an amazing deep learning benchmark milestone – the ability to do an ImageNet training...
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HLRS and Wuhan to Collaborate on Exascale Computing
The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and Supercomputing Center of Wuhan University have announced plans to cooperate on technology and training...
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Let’s Talk Exascale: Thom Dunning on Molecular Modeling with NWCHEMEX
In this edition of Let's Talk Exascale, Thom Dunning from the University of Washington describes the software effort underway to for molecular modeling at exascale...
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Bright Computing Signs X-ISS as Reseller and Services Partner
Today Bright Computing announced a reseller and services partnership agreement with X-ISS. " X-ISS is a privately-owned company that specializes in providing management...
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ACM Honors Amanda Randles from Duke University
Amanda Randles from Duke University will receive the 2018 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, which recognizes young researchers for major technical or service contribution...
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Rescale Brings NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Electromagnetic Simulation To The Cloud
Today Rescale announced that XFdtd electromagnetic simulation software from Remcom is now available on Rescale’s ScaleX platform for HPC in the cloud. The combined...
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Iridis 5 Supercomputer to Simplify Use of HPC
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe talks to Southampton University’s Oz Parchment about the decision-making behind installing...
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The OpenFabrics Alliance 2018 Annual Workshop Recap
"The 14th Annual OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Workshop, held in scenic Boulder, Colorado, recently concluded its week-long, community-wide collaboration and dialogue...
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Balancing the Load – A Million Cores in Concert
"If you’re doing any kind of parallel simulation, and you have a bit of imbalance, all the other cores have to wait for the slowest one,” Junghans says, a problem...
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ACM Recognizes Innovators in Open Source Software, Biotechnology, Networks, and Artificial Intelligence
Today ACM announced the recipients of four prestigious technical awards. These leaders were selected by their peers for making significant contributions that have...
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Register Now for SC18 Housing in Dallas – Rooms will run out
Housing registration is now open for SC18 in Dallas. Unlike previous years, you should register now because the conference hotels expected to run out of rooms sometime...
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New Paper: A Survey of Techniques for Dynamic Branch Prediction
Branch predictor (BP) is an essential component in modern processors since high BP accuracy can improve performance and reduce energy. However, reducing latency...
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Podcast: TACC Powers Deep Earth Imaging
"In this TACC Podcast, Ross Maguire and Jeroen Ritsema of the University of Michigan describe how supercomputer simulations of volcanos show how mantle plumes form...
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Nlyte Sofware Taps IBM Watson for Optimization of Workload Infrastructure
Today Nlyte Software announced the company has partnered with the IBM Watson IoT group to offer its first cognitive DCIM solution – Nlyte Machine Learning. TheNlyte...
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