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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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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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Penguin Computing doubles down on Asetek Liquid Cooling
Today Asetek announced an additional order from Penguin Computing for an undisclosed HPC installation. "This repeat order reflects our strong partnership with Penguin...
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RSC Group from Russia Brings Hot Water Cooling to HPC
Last week at ISC 2017, the Russian RSC Group showcased its ultra high-dense scalable and energy efficient RSC Tornado cluster solution as well as a full set ofRSC...
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Andrew Jones wraps up ISC 2017
In this special guest feature, Andrew Jones from NAG offers his perspective on ISC 2017. How he came to know such things is a mystery as Mr. Jones did not attend...
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Supercomputing the Secrets of the Snake Genome at TACC
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are using TACC supercomputers to study the unique traits of snake evolution. Led by assistant professor of biology...
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Intel Omni-Path Architecture: Incredible Momentum for a New Technology
This is the last of four articles on Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) next-generation fabric for high-performance computing (HPC) solutions. Intel OPA is...
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HPC Capacity Doubles on Irish Supercomputer List
The 8th Irish Supercomputer List was released last week, featuring two new Top500-class machines. The new entrants, from an undisclosed software company, feature...
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AFRL Taps IBM to Build Brain-Inspired AI Supercomputer
Today IBM announced they are collaborating with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing system poweredAFRL...
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One Stop Systems Showcases GPU and Flash Appliances at ISC
This week in Frankfurt, One Stop Systems showcased all-new HPC Appliances at ISC 2017. "One Stop Systems offers a wide variety of GPU and Flash appliances to support...
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HPC Vendors showcase plans for ARM products
Are you ready? ARM-based HPC systems will be available by the end of 2017. At ISC 2017, Penguin Computing and Bull both announced that they will deliver products...
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NASA’s Develops SAFEGUARD Safety Net Technology for Drones
Flying drone aircraft are no longer rare sightings these day. In fact, their may be one above you somewhere taking pictures at this very moment. This begs the question...
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Simply Beautiful: MareNorstum4 Supercomputer Sports 13.7 Petaflops
Over at Lenovo, Gavin O'Hara writes that the world's most beautiful supercomputer center now sports a 13.7 Petaflop system so novel in design that it has captured...
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