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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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Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell to Present at SC17
Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell will share insights and inspiration at SC17 in Denver. "We are honored to have the legendary Gordon Bell speak at SC17," said Conference...
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LANL Steps Up to HPC for Materials Program
"Understanding and predicting material performance under extreme environments is a foundational capability at Los Alamos,” said David Teter, Materials Science and...
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SC17 Session Preview: Dr. Pradeep Dubey on AI & The Virtuous Cycle of Compute
Deep Learning was recently scaled to obtain 15PF performance on the Cori supercomputer at NERSC. Cori Phase II features over 9600 KNL processors. It can significantly...
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Supercomputing Jet Noise for a Quieter World
Researchers at the University of Minnesota are using Argonne supercomputers to to look for new ways to reduce the noise produced by jet engines. Among the loudest...
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Video: Will HPC Move to the Cloud?
Gabriel Broner from Rescale gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "HPC has transitioned from unique and proprietary designs, to clusters of many dual-CPU IntelVideo...
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Hiring? Sign up for the SC17 Student/Post Doc Job Fair
Is your organization looking to hire HPC talent? Be sure to book a table at the SC17 Student/Post Doc Job Fair. "This face-to-face event will be held from 10 a.m...
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Intel awards Paderborn University a Hybrid Cluster with Arria 10 FPGAs
The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC²) has been selected by Intel to host a computer cluster that uses Intel’s Xeon processor with its Arria 10 FPGAIntel...
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KISTI in South Korea orders up a Cray CS500 Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) has awarded the Company a contract valued at more than $48 million for aKISTI...
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NVIDIA P100 GPUs come to Google Cloud Platform
Today the good folks at the Google Compute Platform announced the availability of NVIDIA GPUs in the Cloud for multiple geographies. Cloud GPUs can accelerate workloads...
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GigaSpaces Simplifies Artificial Intelligence Development with Intel BigDL
"BigDL’s efficient large-scale distributed deep learning framework, built on Apache Spark, expands the accessibility of deep learning to a broader range of bigGigaSpaces...
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New HPC for Materials Program to Help American Industry
Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a new high-performance computing initiative that will help U.S. industry accelerate the development...
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Yokohama City University Installs Cray XC50-AC Supercomputer for Life Sciences
Today Cray announced that the Yokohama City University in Japan has put a Cray XC50-AC supercomputer into production. Located in the University’s Advanced Medical...
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Freshly Funded Optalysys Optical Processing to Speed Genomics
Optalysys, a start-up pioneering the development of light-speed optical coprocessors, today announced the company raised 3.95 million U.S. dollars from angel investors...
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Preferred Networks in Japan Deploys 4.7 Petaflop Supercomputer for Deep Learning
Today Preferred Networks announced the launch of a private supercomputer designed to facilitate research and development of deep learning, including autonomousPreferred...
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Exascale Computing Project Names Doug Kothe as Director
The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Doug Kothe as its new director effective October 1. "Doug’s credentials in this area and familiarity...
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GPUs Accelerate Population Distribution Mapping Around the Globe
With the Earth’s population at 7 billion and growing, understanding population distribution is essential to meeting societal needs for infrastructure, resources...
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Northrop Grumman to Acquire Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion
Today Northrop Grumman Corporation announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Orbital ATK for approximately $7.8 billion in cash, plus the...
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The AI Revolution: Unleashing Broad and Deep Innovation
For the AI revolution to move into the mainstream, cost and complexity must be reduced, so smaller organizations can afford to develop, train and deploy powerful...
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20 Future HPC Leaders Receive DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Today the Krell Institute announced that new class of 20 future HPC leaders enrolled at U.S. universities this fall with support from the Department of Energy Computational...
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