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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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TACC and DOD to Co-Develop Novel Computational Approaches
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide researchers with access to advanced computing resources...
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Google Cloud TPU Machine Learning Accelerators now in Beta
John Barrus writes that Cloud TPUs are available in beta on Google Cloud Platform to help machine learning experts train and run their ML models more quickly. "Cloud...
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Optalysys Optical Processing Achieves 90 percent energy savings for DNA Sequence Alignment
The GENESYS project applied Optalysys’s unique optical processing technology to perform large-scale DNA sequence alignment. "The collaboration with EI has beenOptalysys...
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CPU 24/7 Acquired by IAV GmbH for Automotive HPC Managed Services
HPC managed services provider CPU 24/7 has been acquired by IAV GmbH, a leading engineering services firm for the automotive industry. "We are very happy we found...
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Nominations open for PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2018
PRACE is once again seeking nominations for the Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2018. The award recognizes women in Europe who are breaking new barriers in science and...
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Reconstructing Nuclear Physics Experiments with Supercomputers
For the first time, scientists have used HPC to reconstruct the data collected by a nuclear physics experiment—an advance that could dramatically reduce the time...
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Big 3 Cloud Providers Join with Nsf to Support Data Science
"NSF’s participation with major cloud providers is an innovative approach to combining resources to better support data science research," said Jim Kurose, assistant...
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John Elmer Joins Nag Board of Directors
Today the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) in the UK announced the appointment of John Elmer to its Board of Directors. "I am delighted that John Elmer is joining...
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One Stop Systems Rolls Out High Bandwidth Nvme Ion Flash Storage Array
Today One Stop Systems introduced the new 2U Ion Accelerator Flash Storage Array. The new array offers flexible capacity while maintaining the high-bandwidth and...
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Dell Emc Steps up with Amd Epyc Servers For Hpc, Sdn, and the Edge
Today Dell EMC announced three new servers powered by AMD EPYC processors. "The Advanced High-Performance Computing Center at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville...
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Lightmatter Startup Funded to Accelerate AI with Optical Chip
Today and AI chip startup called Lightmatter announced that it has received $11 million in Series A funding to accelerate development of the industry’s first chip...
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Podcast: Supercomputing Better Semiconductors For Solar Energy
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to develop better semiconductors for solar engery. "Dr. Levine models the behavior caused by defects in materials, such...
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The 3 Types of Cloud Computing For Hpc Systems Management
Three types of clouds have been developed: public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds. We continue our insideHPC series of features exploring new resourceThe...
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ISC STEM Student Day & Gala is Back with a Stronger Program
Today the ISC 2018 conference announced the return of the ISC STEM Student Day, with an attractive program for students and sponsoring organizations. Students attending...
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Ampere Computing Startup to Bring Arm to the Datacenter
Today a new Arm server company called Ampere launched with a mission to address memory performance, cost, space and power constraints for the datacenter. Of note...
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Artificial Intelligence: The Next Industrial Revolution
It has been said that artificial intelligence will create the next industrial revolution, the fourth industrial revolution that modern-day society has experienced...
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Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast looks at Parallel I/O with ExaHDF5
In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Suren Byna of LBNL and Quincey Koziol of the NERSC describe ExaHDF5, an I/O platform for exascale data. "One milestone that...
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Janet Network upgrades to 400Gbit/s for Global Research
JISC in the UK is upgrading its Janet Network to world-leading 400Gbit/s connectivity, making it one of the most digitally-advanced national research and education...
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Optalysys Appoints Scientific Advisory Board for Optical Computing
Today Optalysys announced the formation of its first Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) comprising experts in AI/machine learning, bioinformatics/genomics and optical...
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