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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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Now Shipping: Intel Optane SSDs with 4x Performance of NAND-Based Devices
Today Intel announced the launch of the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series, the first SSD for desktop PC and workstation users built on Intel Optane technology. "Up to...
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New Subsea Cable Lowers Network Costs from Iceland to North America by 90%
The cost of moving HPC workloads to Iceland is coming down in a big way. Today Verne Global and Tele Greenland announced that the 12.4-Tbps upgrade to the Greenland...
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SC17 Session Preview: “Taking the Nanoscale to the Exascale”
Brian Ban continues his series of SC17 Session Previews with a look at an invited talk on nanotechnology. "This talk will focus on the challenges that computational...
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Agreement Ensures Ongoing HPC Funding for Climate Research at DKRZ in Germany
Today German officials signed a contract for the long-term financing of a new supercomputer for DKRZ. The new machine will be used for climate research. "We need...
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NCI Doubles Raijin Supercomputer Throughput with IBM POWER8
Today NCI in Australia announced that it has adopted IBM’s Power8 architecture as part of Raijin, the system fastest supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere.NCI...
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NVIDIA GPU Cloud comes to AWS with Volta GPUs
"In just a few steps, the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) container registry helps developers get started with no-cost access to a comprehensive, easy-to-use, fully optimized...
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Versity names Meghan McClelland VP of Product
Today Versity Software announced the addition of Meghan McClelland as Vice President of Product. Meghan will oversee the launch of Versity’s next generation cloud...
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JPCU Deploys Immersion-cooled Supercomputer
Today Green Revolution Cooling announced the latest installation of its liquid immersion computing system at John Paul Catholic University (JPCU) in San Diego.JPCU...
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Vectors are Back: The new NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Supercomputer
Today NEC Corporation launched their new high-end HPC product line, the SX-Aurora TSUBASA. "Utilizing cutting-edge chip integration technology, the new productVectors...
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Firing up a Continent with HPC
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Nox Moyake describes the process of entrenching and developing HPC in South Africa. "The CHPC currently...
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HPE Unveils a Set Artificial Intelligence Platforms and Services
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new purpose-built platforms and services capabilities to help companies simplify the adoption of Artificial Intelligence...
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LTO-8 Type M Tape Boosts Storage Capacity from Spectra Logic
Spectra Logic announced today that Spectra Certified LTO-8 Type M media along with LTO-8 drives and all supported media are now available for order. An industry...
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Purdue Develops Intrachip Micro-cooling for HPC
“I think for the first time we have shown a proof of concept for embedded cooling for Department of Defense and potential commercial applications,” Garimella said...
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Exascale to Enable Smart Cities
Over at Argonne, Charlie Catlett writes that the advent of Exascale computing will enable Smart Cities designed to improve the quality of life for urban dwellers...
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Video: What IBM’s 5 Nanometer Transistors Mean for You
In this video, Nicolas Loubet from IBM Research describes how IBM's new 5 nanometer transistors will provide huge power savings that could enable mobile devices...
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Banshee Makes DRAM Cache 33 to 50 percent more efficient
Researchers from MIT, Intel, and ETH Zurich have developed a new cache-management scheme that improves the data rate of in-package DRAM caches by 33 to 50 percent...
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Register Now For the Intel HPC Developer Conference 2017
Powerful technologies today fuel tomorrow’s HPC and High-Performance Data Analytics innovations and help organizations accelerate toward discoveries. Get aheadRegister...
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Single Node “Cyclops” Supercomputer Looks to Set Records
Today the Radio Free HPC podcast team announced announced plans to build what they hope will be the “fastest single-node supercomputer in the world" for the High...
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Supercomputing Human Brain Memory Molecules with the Piz Daint Supercomputer
Scientists at the University of Basel are using the Piz Daint supercomputer at CSCS to discover interrelationships in the human genome that might simplify the search...
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