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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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Dark Energy Survey Releases First Three Years of Data
Today scientists from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) released their first three years of data. This first major release of data from the Survey includes information...
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Using the Titan Supercomputer to Accelerate Deep Learning Networks
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has married artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to achieve...
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ECP Launches “Let’s Talk Exascale” Podcast
The DOE's Exascale Computing Project has launched a new podcast channel. In this episode, Danny Perez from Los Alamos National Laboratory discusses The Exascale...
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NVIDIA races to patch GPU Drivers for Spectre and Meltdown
A new security bulletin from NVIDIA reveals that GPUs are not immune to the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that affect nearly every modern CPU. This is bad newsNVIDIA...
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Survey shows how AI Could Revolutionize Life Sciences
Some 44 per cent of life science professionals are using or experimenting with AI and deep learning, while 94 per cent expect an increase in use of machine learning...
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AI Hardware to Support the Artificial Intelligence Software Ecosystem
Balance ratios are key to understanding the plethora of AI hardware solutions that are being developed or are soon to become available. This post from an insideHPC...
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Berkeley Lab-led Collaborations win HPC Innovation Awards
Two Berkeley Lab-led projects—Celeste and Galactos—were honored with Hyperion Research’s 2017 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards for "the outstanding applicationBerkeley...
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NOAA Looks to Dell for Massive Supercomputing Upgrade
Today NOAA announced to plans for a major upgrade to its supercomputing capabilities. The upgrade adds 2.8 petaflops of computational power, enabling NOAA’s National...
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RAID Inc. Joins OpenSFS to Support the Lustre File System
RAID Incorporated has joined OpenSFS (Open Scalable File Systems, Inc.). OpenSFS is a non-profit organization that supports the vendor-neutral development of Lustre...
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NVIDIA and Baidu Announce Autonomous Car project with 30 Deep earning TOPS (trillions of operations per second)
Today NVIDIA and Baidu today that they are creating a production-ready AI autonomous vehicle platform designed for China, the world’s largest automotive market....
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New Whitepaper on Meltdown and Spectre fixes for HPC
Can you afford to lose a third of your compute real estate? If not, you need to pre-empt the impact of Meltdown and Spectre. "Meltdown and Spectre are quickly becoming...
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Pointwise ISV is Finalist for Small Business of the Year
The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce has named Pointwise a finalist for 2018 Small Business of the Year award. Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing computational...
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Mellanox Ships BlueField SoCs and SmartNICs
Today Mellanox announced the first shipments of its BlueField system-on-chip (SoC) platforms and SmartNIC adapters to major data center, hyperscale and OEM customers...
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Intel Deploying Updates for Spectre and Meltdown Exploits
Intel reports that company has developed and is rapidly issuing updates for all types of Intel-based computer systems — including personal computers and servers...
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ESI Releases SimulationX 3.9 for Manufacturing
ESI Group has announced the release of SimulationX 3.9, a software platform for multiphysics system simulation. Designed for many industries – from automotive,ESI...
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Microsoft to acquire Avere Systems
Over at the Microsoft Blog, Jason Zander writes that the company is acquiring Avere Systems. As makers of high-speed data caching technologies, Avere Systems has...
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Intel tackles FPGA HPC Memory Bottleneck
Intel recently announced the availability of the Intel Stratix 10 MX FPGA, the industry’s first field programmable gate array (FPGA) with integrated HBM2. By integrating...
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ASC18 Student Cluster Competition to include 230 Teams
The 2018 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC18) will begin on January 16, 2018. First launched in 2012, the competition will feature a whopping 230 student...
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Why Rescale is one of the Fastest Growing Enterprise Software Companies of 2017
Over at the Rescale Blog, Joris Poort writes that the company has been named one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies of 2017. "It’s been a busy...
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