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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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From SC17: Energy Efficiency in the Software Stack — Cross Community Efforts
In this special guest feature, Siddhartha Jana provides an update on cross-community efforts to improve energy efficiency in the software stack. The article covers...
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MareNostrum 4 Named Most Beautiful Datacenter in the World
The MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre has been named the winner of the Most Beautiful Data Center in the world Prize, hosted by...
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New Avere FXT Edge Filer Doubles Performance, Capacity, and Bandwidth for Challenging Workloads
Today Avere Systems introduced the top-of-the-line FXT Edge filer, the FXT 5850. Designed for high data-growth industries, the new FXT enables customers to speed...
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Innovate UK Award to Confirm Business Case for Quantum-enhanced Optimization Algorithms
Today D-Wave Systems announced its involvement in a grant-funded UK project to improve logistics and planning operations using quantum computing algorithms. "Advancing...
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Accelerating HPC with Intel FPGAs
FPGAs can improve performance per watt, bandwidth and latency. In this guest post, Intel explores how Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can be used to accelerate...
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Supercomputing How First Supernovae Altered Early Star Formation
Over at LBNL, Kathy Kincade writes that cosmologists are using supercomputers to study how heavy metals expelled from exploding supernovae helped the first stars...
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Dell EMC Powers HPC at University of Liverpool with Alces Flight
Today Dell EMC announced a joint solution with Alces Flight and AWS to provide HPC for the University of Liverpool. Dell EMC will provide a fully managed on-premises...
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Data Vortex Technologies Teams with Providentia Worldwide for HPC
Data Vortex Technologies has formalized a partnership with Providentia Worldwide, LLC. Providentia is a technologies and solutions consulting venture which bridges...
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Intel Supports open source software for HPC
In this video from SC17, Thomas Krueger describes how Intel supports Open Source High Performance Computing software like OpenHPC and Lustre. "As the Linux initiative...
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System Fabric Works adds support for BeeGFS Parallel File System
Today System Fabric Works announced its support and integration of the BeeGFS file system with the latest NetApp E-Series All Flash and HDD storage systems which...
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DDN’s HPC Trends Survey: Complex I/O Workloads are the #1 Challenge
Today DDN announced the results of its annual HPC Trends survey, which reflects the continued adoption of flash-based storage as essential to respondent’s overall...
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Cray Joins Big Data Center at NERSC for AI Development
Today Cray announced the Company has joined the Big Data Center at NERSC. The collaboration between the two organizations is representative of Cray’s commitment...
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SDSC Earthquake Codes Used in 2017 Gordon Bell Prize Research
A Chinese team of researchers awarded this year’s prestigious Gordon Bell prize for simulating the devastating 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China, used an open-source...
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Cavium Joins OpenCAPI for Next-gen Platforms
Today Cavium announced it is collaborating with IBM for next generation platforms by joining OpenCAPI, an initiative founded by IBM, Google, AMD and others. OpenCAPI...
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AI Technology: The Answer to Diffusion Compartment Imaging Challenges
Use cases show AI technology, like what's used in an optimized Diffusion Compartment Imaging (DCI) technique, is growing the potential of HPC computing. AI is thought...
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Call for Sessions: OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop in Boulder
The OFA Workshop 2018 Call for Sessions encourages industry experts and thought leaders to help shape this year’s discussions by presenting or leading discussions...
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Verne Global Launches hpcDIRECT, an HPC as a Service Platform
Today Verne Global in Iceland announced hpcDIRECT, a powerful, agile and efficient HPC-as-a-service (HPCaaS) platform. hpcDIRECT provides a fully scalable, bare...
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Mellanox and NEC Partner to Deliver High-Performance Artificial Intelligence Platforms
Today Mellanox announced in collaboration with NEC Corporation support for the newly announced SX-Aurora TSUBASA systems with Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand adapters...
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Benchmarking Optimized 3D Electromagnetic Simulation Tools
New benchmarks from Computer Simulation Technology on their recently optimized 3D electromagnetic field simulation tools compare the performance of the new Intel...
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