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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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Kubernetes Meets HPC
"While the notion of packaging a workload into a Docker container, publishing it to a registry, and submitting a YAML description of the workload is second nature...
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New PGI 17.7 Release Supports NVIDIA Volta GPUs
Today NVIDIA released Version 17.7 of PGI 2017 Compilers and Tools, delivering improved performance and programming simplicity to HPC developers who target multicore...
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IBM Simulates Chemistry with Quantum Computing
IBM scientists have developed a new approach to simulate molecules on a quantum computer that may one day help revolutionize chemistry and materials science. “Over...
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CPC Enhances Non-spill Quick Disconnects for Liquid Cooled HPC
As liquid cooling becomes more and more pervasive in HPC datacenters, the mitigation of leaks and spills is a growing concern. Enter CPC, a maker of quick disconnects...
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Entering the Era of Simulation Driven Design
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World reports from the European Altair Technology Conference and finds that simulation-driven...
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Cavium Joins the OpenMP Effort for ThunderX2 Processor
Today the OpenMP ARB organization announced that Cavium has joined as a new member. "Cavium’s membership in the OpenMP ARB further highlights our strong beliefCavium...
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CCIX Project to link ARM Processors to FPGAs for HPC
Today ARM, Xilinx, Cadence, and Taiwan Semiconductor announced plans to produce the first test chip for the Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX)CCIX...
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Seeking Teams for the 2018 Student Cluster Competition at ISC in Frankfurt
The HPC Advisory Council has officially kicked off the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) with an open call for team entries in the 2018 competition. "The...
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Solving AI Hardware Challenges
For many deep learning startups out there, buying AI hardware and a large quantity of powerful GPUs is not feasible. So many of these startup companies are turning...
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MIT Paper Sheds Light on How Neural Networks Think
MIT researchers have developed a new general-purpose technique sheds light on inner workings of neural nets trained to process language. "During training, a neural...
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Podcast: HPE Sends a Supercomputer into Orbit
In this TechNative Podcast, Mark Fernandez from HPE describes the company’s collaboration to send a supercomputer into orbit. "“By NASA’s rules, not just any computer...
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Asetek lands new OEM, Channel Partner, and HPC Installation
Today Asetek announced an order from a new channel partner to service demand from a new OEM customer for an undisclosed HPC installation. All parties remain undisclosed...
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Canada’s Biggest Radio Telescope to use CoolIT Systems Liquid Cooling
With support from CoolIT Systems with a custom Direct Liquid Cooling solution, the CHIME telescope will map out the entire northern sky each day, aiming to constrain...
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Announcing the New MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab
Today IBM announced a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab. "The combined MIT and IBM talent dedicated to this new effort will bring...
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NVIDIA Volta GPUs to Help CDDS Advance Medicine with AI
Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Abdul Hamid Halabi writes that the Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS) today received the world’s first NVIDIA DGX systems with Volta...
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Vanguard Infrastructures Teams with Cray for Cybersecurity
Today announced that the Company has signed a solutions provider agreement with Vanguard Infrastructures in order for Vanguard to develop, market, and sell on premise...
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EPFL Building New Particle Detector for Large Hadron Collider
EPFL’s physicists are moving forward in their efforts to solve the mysteries of the universe. A particle detector made up of 10,000 kilometers of scintillatingEPFL...
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Announcing the EuroEXA Project for Exascale
Today, 16 organizations met at the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre to mark the start of the EuroEXA project and the commencement of the execution in the next stage...
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The Intel Scalable System: Kick-Starting the AI Revolution
Like many other HPC workloads, deep learning is a tightly coupled application that alternates between compute-intensive number-crunching and high-volume data sharing...
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