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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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Dell EMC Joins Atos Global Reseller Alliance
Today Atos in Europe announced a new reseller agreement in which Dell EMC will resell Atos’ high-end 8 to 16 sockets x86 Bullion servers. "Over the last few years...
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SC17 Invited Talk Preview: High Performance Machine Learning
Over at the SC17 Blog, Brian Ban begins his series of SC17 Session Previews with a look at a talk on High Performance Big Data. "Deep learning, using GPU clusters...
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Gabriel Broner on Why Cloud is the Next Disruption in HPC
"Like the previous disruptions of clusters vs. monolithic systems or Linux vs. proprietary operating systems, cloud changes the status quo, takes us out of ourGabriel...
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Unlike Oil and Water, Legacy and Cloud Mix Well
Despite the cloud hype, legacy HPC apps are alive and well. While it may seem like they can’t mix, the process of bursting these applications to the cloud is bringing...
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Video: Baidu Releases Fast Allreduce Library for Deep Learning
In this video, from Andrew Gibiansky from Baidu describes baidu-allreduce, a newly released C library that enables faster training of neural network models across...
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Fayetteville State University Leverages Bright Cluster Manager for AI Research
Fayetteville State University is using Bright Cluster Manager for use in ground-breaking Artificial Intelligence research. Bright Cluster Manager enables the University...
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NeSI in New Zealand Installs Pair of Cray Supercomputers
The New Zealand Science Infrastructure (NeSI) is commissioning a new HPC system with the main computation and storage infrastructure. "The new systems, provideNeSI...
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Researchers Use TACC, SDSC and NASA Supercomputers to Forecast Corona of the Sun
Predictive Sciences ran a large-scale simulation of the Sun’s surface in preparation for a prediction of what the solar corona will look like during the eclipse...
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RCE Podcast Looks at PBS Professional Job Scheduler
"Now available as Open Source, PBS Pro software optimizes job scheduling and workload management in high-performance computing environments – clusters, clouds,RCE...
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Dr. Ilkay Altintas to recieve ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
Today SIGHPC announced that Ilkay Altintas is the inaugural winner of the ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award. "I am thrilled that Dr....
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ORNL Readies Facility for 200 Petaflop Summit Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is moving equipment into a new high-performance computing center this month which is anticipated to become one of the world’s premier...
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Nuñez-Corrales Awarded SIGHPC Computational Data and Science Fellowship
Santiago Nuñez-Corrales, a graduate researcher at NCSA and Ph.D. student in Informatics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was one of twelve recipients...
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xDCI Infrastructure Manages 3D Brain Microscopy Images at RENCI
Researchers at RENCI are using xDCI Data CyberInfrastructure to manage brain microscopy images that were overwhelming the storage capacity at individual workstations...
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Purdue Adds New Resource for GPU-accelerated Research Computing
A new computing resource is available for Purdue researchers running applications that can take advantage of GPU accelerators. The system, known as Halstead-GPU...
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Dell EMC Supercomputer to Power OzGRav Studies of Black Holes
Today Dell EMC announced it will build a supercomputer to power Swinburne University of Technology’s groundbreaking research into astrophysics and gravitational...
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Video: Gas Clouds Wither in Galactic Winds
In this video from Evan Schneider at Princeton University, hot galactic winds destroy a cool cloud of interstellar gas. “The process of generating galactic winds...
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DeepSat: Monitoring the Earth’s Vitals with AI
In order to better keep a finger on the pulse of the Earth’s health, NASA developed DeepSat, a deep learning AI framework for satellite image classification and...
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AI and Blockchain Companies Partner to Advance Healthcare Research
Today Insilico Medicine announced a research collaboration with The Bitfury Group, the world’s leading full-service blockchain technology conglomerate, to develop...
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OSC Hosts fifth MVAPICH Users Group
A broad array of system administrators, developers, researchers and students who share an interest in the MVAPICH open-source library for high performance computing...
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