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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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RCE Podcast Looks at Shifter Containers for HPC
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Shane Canon and Doug Jacobsen from NERSC, the authors of Shifter. "Shifter is a prototype implementation...
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Testing Brain-Inspired Chips for Big Data Problems at Berkeley Lab
"The von Neumann design has also led computing to its current limits in efficiency and cooling. As engineers built increasingly complex chips to carry out sequential...
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Deep Learning in the Spotlight at ISC
This year the ISC conference dedicated an entire day to deep learning, Wednesday, June 21, to discuss the recent advances in artificial intelligence based on deep...
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Supercomputing DNA Packing in Nuclei at TACC
Aaron Dubrow writes that researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch are exploring DNA folding and cellular packing with supercomputing power from TACC...
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Mellanox Unveils Spectrum-2 400 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch
"Spectrum-2 Open Ethernet switch enables our customers and partners to meet the voracious demands of data speed, data processing and real time data analytics, and...
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Red Hat Debuts Multi-Architecture Solutions for HPC at ISC 2017
In this video, Yan Fisher from Red Hat describes the company's multi-architecture solutions that were on display at ISC 2017. "Historically, HPC workloads haveRed...
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European Supercomputing Centers Adopt Joint Procurement Process
Some of Europe’s leading supercomputing centers have joined forces to create a buyers group that will enable joint public procurement of new HPC systems. "The new...
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Atos Launches World’s Fastest Quantum Simulator
"There is real excitement about new technologies like Quantum Computing, however many things are needed to help users learn how to program and use Quantum computers...
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NVIDIA and Baidu Partner Up to Accelerate AI
Today NVIDIA and Baidu today announced a broad partnership to bring the world’s leading artificial intelligence technology to cloud computing, self-driving vehicles...
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Supercomputing New Tools for Cancer Detection
"In the future, though, it may be possible to diagnose cancer much earlier using more sensitive body scans, new types of biomarker tests, and even nano-sensorsSupercomputing...
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Atos to Build 4.3 Petaflop Bull Sequana Supercomputer for AWE in the UK
Today Atos announced that a new Bull Sequana supercomputer will enable high-performance computing solutions to boost next-generation scientific modeling for the...
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DEEP-EST Project Looks to Building-blocks for Exascale
The DEEP exascale research computing project has entered its next phase with launch of the DEEP-EST project at the Jülich Supercomputing Center in Germany. "The...
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Supercomputing the Impact of Loan Forgiveness Programs
Graduate Assistant Hongyu Chen used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to model individuals’ education, career, borrowing, and spending decisions...
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Podcast: Why HPC is Vital at NASA
"At NASA, what we're doing is we're really looking at ways of making aircraft more efficient. We're trying to make them quieter. We're trying to make them get to...
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ISC 2017 Wrapup by the Numbers
Today the ISC Group announced that their 2017 ISC High Performance conference drew a record 3,253 attendees from 60 countries. The attendance represented a 5.2ISC...
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InfiniBand Continues Momentum on Latest TOP500
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced that InfiniBand remains the most used HPC interconnect on the TOP500. Additionally, the majority of newly...
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SPEC/HPG hardware acceleration benchmark adds OpenMP Suite
Today SPEC’s High-Performance Group released a new version of its SPEC ACCEL software that adds a suite of OpenMP applications for measuring the performance ofSPEC...
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Bring your workloads to Iceland: Verne Global adds powerDIRECT+
Today Iceland-based co-hosting provider Verne Global announced powerDIRECT+, a reduced-cost compute environment engineered specifically for the next generationBring...
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Hyperion Research Recognizes Bright Computing for their Integration with Azure
Today Bright Computing announced that it has been selected by Hyperion Research for a 2017 HPC Innovation Award for its ability to provision and manage virtualHyperion...
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