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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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MareNostrum Supercomputer to contribute 475 million core hours to European Research
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre announced plans to allocate 475 million core hours of its supercomputer MareNostrum to 17 research projects as part of...
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How Manufacturing will Leap Forward with Exascale Computing
In this special guest feature, Jeremy Thomas from Lawrence Livermore National Lab writes that exascale computing will be a vital boost to the U.S. manufacturing...
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1000x Faster Deep-Learning at Petascale Using Intel Xeon Phi Processors
A cumulative effort over several years to scale the training of deep-learning neural networks has resulted in the first demonstration of petascale deep-learning...
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Intel to Ship Neural Network Processor by end of year
Intel's Naveen Rao writes that Intel will soon be shipping the world’s first family of processors designed from the ground up for artificial intelligence. As announced...
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ESnet’s Science DMZ Could Help Transfer and Protect Medical Research Data
The Science DMZ architecture developed for moving large data sets quick and securely could be adapted to meet the needs of the medical research community. "Like...
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Call for Contributions: PEARC18 in Pittsburgh
The PEARC18 Conference has issued its Call for Contributions. The conference takes place June 22-27 in Pittsburgh. "The Practice & Experience in Advanced Research...
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Jesús Labarta from BSC to receive Ken Kennedy Award
Today ACM and IEEE Computer Society named Jesús Labarta of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as the recipient of the 2017 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. Labarta...
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OpenSFS Announces Maintenance Release 2.10.1 for Lustre
OpenSFS today announced the first Long Term Support (LTS) maintenance release of Lustre 2.10.1. "This latest advance, in effect, fulfills a commitment made by Intel...
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HPC Software Stacks: Making High Performance Computing More Accessible
More than 200 researchers at the University of Pisa use high performance computing (HPC) systems in their quantum chemistry, nanophysics, genome sequencing, engineering...
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Video: Supercomputing Models Enable Detection of a Cosmic Cataclysm
In this podcast, Peter Nugent from Berkeley Lab explains how scientists confirmed the first-ever measurement of the merger of two neutron stars and its explosive...
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ISC 2018 Issues Call For Tutorials and Workshops
ISC 2018 has issued their Call for Tutorials and Workshops. The conference takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt, Germany. "If you possess knowledge and skills in...
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Supercomputing Earthquakes in the Age of Exascale
Over at LLNL, Linda Vu writes that tomorrow's exascale supercomputers, will enable researchers to accurately simulate the ground motions of regional earthquakes...
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Intel FPGAs Power Acceleration-as-a-Service for Alibaba Cloud
Intel field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are now powering the Acceleration-as-a-Service of Alibaba Cloud. The acceleration service, which can be launched from...
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SciDAC funding to Move Quantum Chromodynamics forward at Jefferson Lab
As nuclear physicists delve ever deeper into the heart of matter, they require the tools to reveal the next layer of nature's secrets. Nowhere is that more true...
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Supercomputing Virus Structures at Nanoscale with XFEL
A team at Berkeley Lab are using innovative computational methods to enable new X-ray science. "The creation of XFEL facilities, including the Linac Coherent Light...
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How the POP Performance Optimization Centre at BSC is Speeding up HPC in Europe
In this video, Jesús Labarta from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center describes the POP (Performance Optimization and Productivity) Centre of Excellence led byHow...
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NERSC lends a hand to 2017 Tapia Conference on Diversity in Computing
The recent Tapia Conference on Diversity in Computing in Atlanta brought together some 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers and professionals...
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GPUs Power Near-global Climate Simulation at 1 km Resolution
A new peer-reviewed paper is reportedly causing a stir in the climatology community. "The best hope for reducing long-standing global climate model biases, is through...
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Spectra Logic Launches LTO-8 Pre-Purchase Program
"LTO-8 tape technology doubles the capacity of LTO-7 to an astonishing 30 TB compressed (12TB native) per cartridge, and improves performance by 20 percent, upSpectra...
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