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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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Report: Supercomputer Growth Drives Record HPC Revenue in 2016
Today Hyperion Research reports that Worldwide factory revenue for the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market grew 4.4% in full-year 2016 to a...
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Catalyst Grants Foster Innovative Projects in Computational Science
The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering has awarded its first round of Catalyst Grants, providing $75,000 each to four innovative projects...
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NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU Speed AI Workloads in the IBM Cloud
Today IBM announced that it is the first major cloud provider to make the Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU accelerator available globally on the cloud. By combining NVIDIA...
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Raid Inc. Launches ARI-500 Flash Array
Today Raid Inc. announced the ARI-500 High Performance Low Cost All Flash Array. "The ASIC-based architecture of the ARI-500 Series has an enormous cost advantage...
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Google becomes STEM-Trek Supporter for PEARC17 Student Program
Today STEM-Trek announced that Google, Inc. is a STEM-Trek Platinum supporter of the PEARC17 Student Program. The donation will increase the number of studentsGoogle...
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Cal Poly Wins Silicon Mechanics Research Cluster Grant
Today Silicon Mechanics announced that California Polytechnic State University is the recipient of its sixth annual Research Cluster Grant. As a result of its successful...
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Max Planck Institute Adopts ScaleMP Cluster Virtualization Software
"We selected vSMP Foundation from ScaleMP as the sole available solution turning cluster hardware into an SMP; as a single machine, it allows us to distribute the...
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Eurotech Unveils Aurora Tigon V4 System with Intel Xeon Phi
Today Eurotech announced the Eurotech Aurora Tigon v4, the flagship product of the Eurotech hybrid HPC systems line that adds support for the second generationEurotech...
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Register Now for the SDSC Summer Institute on HPC
"This year’s workshop continues SDSC’s strategy of bringing high-performance computing to what is known as the ‘long tail’ of science, i.e. providing resourcesRegister...
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SHAPE Program offers HPC to Small Businesses in Europe
"The SHAPE Program will help European SMEs overcome barriers to using HPC, such as cost of operation, lack of knowledge and lack of resources. It will facilitate...
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GW4 Unveils ARM-Powered Isambard Supercomputer from Cray
Today the GW4 Alliance in the UK unveiled Isambard, the world’s first ARM-based production supercomputer at today’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
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Prof. Dieter Kranzlmüller Named Chairman of the Board at LRZ in Germany
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) announced that Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors at GCS member Leibniz...
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Purdue Supercomputer Gets Second Life in Colombia
"Besides trying to identify likely drug targets for new HIV treatments, EAFIT’s first supercomputer, named Apolo, is being used for everything from earthquake science...
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Register Now for PRACEdays17 in Barcelona
Registration is now open for PRACEdays17. The event May 16-18 in Barcelona, Spain. "The PRACEdays17 program will follow the tradition set by the first three editions...
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NICE Software Releases EnginFrame 2017
"Since the NICE acquisition by Amazon Web Services (AWS), many customers asked us how to make the HPC experience in the Cloud as simple as the one they have onNICE...
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Quantum Startup Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million in Funding
Today Rigetti Computing, a leading quantum computing start-up, announced it has raised $64 million in Series A and B funding. "Quantum computing will enable people...
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New Univa Grid Engine Release Doubles Performance over Previous Versions
"Grid Engine 8.5’s significant performance improvement for submitting jobs and reduced scheduling times will have a profound impact to our customers’ bottom line...
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Valerie Taylor Named Director of Mathematics and Computer Science at Argonne
Today Argonne announced that computer scientist Valerie Taylor has been appointed as the next director of the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) division at...
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Asetek Liquid Cooling Solution Coming to HPC Center
Today Asetek announced a new order from one of its existing OEM partners for its RackCDU D2C (Direct-to-Chip) liquid cooling solution. The order is part of a new...
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