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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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Upcycled COSMA6 Supercomputer Finds New Life at Durham University
Where do old supercomputers go after the new machines are installed? At Durham University in the UK, they move on to a whole new mission in computation discovery...
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Supercomputing the Dark Energy Survey at NCSA
Researchers are using NCSA supercomputers to explore the mysteries of Dark Matter. "NCSA recognized many years ago the key role that advanced computing and data...
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Announcing the SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowship Winners
Today SIGHPC announced the 12 recipients of the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2017. The fellowship is funded by Intel, and isAnnouncing...
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UK Funds Digital Reactor Design
The UK government has contracted project management firm, Amec Foster Wheeler, to lead a £2.9 million nuclear research program. The £2.9 million contract from the...
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Asperitas and Qarnot Collaborate in Liquid Cooling
Today Dutch cleantech company Asperitas and French green HPC service provider Qarnot announced a partnership centered around liquid cooling for datacenters. Qarnot...
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Interview: Toni Collis on Improving Diversity at SC17
In this special guest feature, Toni Collis from EPCC discusses her new role as SC17 Inclusivity Chair and a member of the Executive Committee. " As the leadingInterview...
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DOE Labs Adopt Asetek Liquid Cooling
Today Asetek announced two incremental orders from Penguin Computing, an established data center OEM. The orders are for Asetek’s RackCDU D2C™ (Direct-to-Chip)DOE...
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Advancing AI Capabilities with Next-Generation HPC Solutions
HPE and NVIDIA are delivering IT solutions with superhuman intelligence to harness the full power of AI and pioneer the next generation of HPC systems. In thisAdvancing...
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AMD Showcases 1 Petaflop “Project 47” Rack at Siggraph
"Project 47 boasts 1 PetaFLOPS of compute power at full 32-bit precision delivering a stunning 30 GigaFLOPS/W, demonstrating dramatic compute efficiency. It boasts...
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One Stop Systems Named One of San Diego’s Fastest Growing Companies
Not all HPC vendors are experiencing a slump. In fact, One Stop Systems was recently named one of San Diego’s 100 fastest growing privately-held companies by the...
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DDN Announces Trade-Up Program for Seagate Customers
DataDirect Networks has announced a trade-up program designed to offer Seagate customers a smooth transition to industry-leading DDN solutions. “It is a sad day...
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18 Petaflop Stampede2 Supercomputer Dedicated Today at TACC
Stampede2 is the newest strategic supercomputing resource for the nation's research and education community, enabling scientists and engineers across the U.S.,18...
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RCE Podcast Looks at NetCDF Network Common Data Format
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with the authors of NetCDF. NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent...
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Velocity Micro Accelerates HPC Desktops
Today Velocity Micro rolled out a suite of new workstation offerings designed for CAD design, 3D rendering, multimedia creation, and scientific calculation. Headlining...
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Nick Nystrom Named Interim Director of PSC
Nick Nystrom has been appointed Interim Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Nystrom succeeds Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies, who have been co-directors...
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CERN openlab Joins Intel Modern Code Developer Challenge
James Reinders writes that a new Intel Modern Code Developer Challenge has teamed up with CERN openlab. "It is always an exciting time when I get to announce aCERN...
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LANL’s Herbert Van de Sompel to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award
"For the last two decades Herbert, working with a range of collaborators, has made a sustained series of key contributions that have helped shape the current networked...
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Cryo-EM Moves Forward with $9.3M NIH Award
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $9.3 million to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to support ongoing...
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Using HPC to Track Massive Ice Shelves
Mellanox Technologies' Vice President of Marketing, Gilad Shainer, discusses the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Mellanox’s high performance computing work that...
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