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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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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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Intel Joins Open Neural Network Exchange
Jason Knight from Intel writes that the company has joined Microsoft, Facebook, and others to participate in the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) project. "By...
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Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip with Advanced Packaging to QuTech
Today, Intel announced the delivery of a 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing to QuTech, Intel’s quantum research partner in the Netherlands...
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NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs Power New TYAN Server
Today TYAN showcased their latest GPU-optimized platforms that target the high performance computing and artificial intelligence sectors at the GPU Technology Conference...
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OSS Showcases New HDCA Platforms with Volta GPUs at GTC Europe
At GTC Europe this week, One Stop Systems (OSS) will exhibit two of the most powerful GPU accelerators for data scientists and deep learning researchers, the CA16010...
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Google Compute Engine offers VMs with 96 Skylake CPUs and 624GB of Memory
Google Compute Engine now offers new VMs with the most Skylake vCPUs of any cloud provider. "Skylake in turn provides up to 20% faster compute performance, 82%Google...
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Accelerating Quantum Chemistry for Drug Discovery
In the pharmaceutical industry, drug discovery is a long and expensive process. This sponsored post from Nvidia explores how the University of Florida and University...
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Podcast: Intel Omni-Path adds Performance and Scalalability
"Intel OPA, part of Intel Scalable System Framework, is a high-performance fabric enabling the responsiveness, throughput, and scalability required by today's and...
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Future HPC Leaders Gather at Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
Over at ALCF, Andrea Manning writes that the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing brought together HPC practitioners from around the world...
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PRACE Awards 1.7 Million Core Hours for Research Projects in Europe
Today the European PRACE initiative announced that 46 Awards from their recent 15th Call for Proposals total up to nearly 1.7 thousand million core hours. The 46...
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COMSOL Conference Showcases Next-Gen Multiphysics
Attendees of the COMSOL Conference in Boston this week were treated to a sneak preview future developments of the popular multiphysics software from Svante Littmarck...
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Advanced Clustering Technologies Deploys Lawrence Supercomputer at University of South Dakota
Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced the deployment of a new supercomputer at the University of South Dakota. cluster. The machine is named "Lawrence"...
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Call For Research Papers: ISC 2018
ISC 2018 has issued their Call for Research Papers. "Submissions are now open for the ISC 2018 conference research paper sessions, which aim to provide first-class...
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SC17 Highlights Nobel Prize Winning LIGO Collaboration
In this video from SC17, researchers discuss the role of HPC in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gravitational waves, originally theorized 100 years ago bySC17...
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Clemson to complete $1 million upgrade of Palmetto HPC Cluster
A $1-million upgrade to Clemson University’s Palmetto Cluster is expected to help researchers quicken the pace of scientific discovery and technological innovation...
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Argonne’s Data Science Program Doubles Down with New Projects
Today Argonne announced that the ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP) has awarded computing time to four new projects, bringing the total number of ADSP projects for...
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Jonathan Poggie from Purdue Wins DoD Computing Award
Associate Professor Jonathan Poggie and his team from Purdue have received a large research grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for supercomputing resources...
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