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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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Announcing the Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
The new ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award will be presented every two years, with the first presentation in November during SC17. "The...
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A Seat at the Table – The Value of Women in High-Performance Computing
It’s fair to say that women continue to be underrepresented in STEM, but the question is whether there is a systemic bias making it difficult for women to joinA...
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Avere Systems Powers BioTeam Test Lab at TACC
"In cooperation with vendors and TACC, BioTeam utilizes the lab to evaluate solutions for its clients by standing up, configuring and testing new infrastructure...
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OCF Deploys 600 Teraflop Cluster at University of Bristol
OCF in the UK has deployed a new 600 teraflop supercomputer at the University of Bristol. Designed, integrated, and configured by OCF, the system is the largest...
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Hyperion Research Announces New HPC Innovation Awards for Data Centers
Hyperion Research, the new name for the former IDC HPC group, today announced it is adding two new categories to its global awards program for high performanceHyperion...
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HPE Introduces the World’s Largest Single-memory Computer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise today introduced the world’s largest single-memory computer, the latest milestone in The Machine research project. "The prototype unveiled...
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D-Wave Lands $50M Funding for Next Generation Quantum Computers
Today D-Wave Systems announced that it has received up to $50 Million in funding from PSP Investments. This facility brings D-Wave’s total funding to approximately...
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Cray and Markley Group to Offer Supercomputing as a Service
Today Cray and the Markley Group announced a partnership to provide supercomputing as a service solutions. "The need for supercomputers has never been greater,”...
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Fujitsu and 1QBit Collaborate on Quantum-Inspired AI Cloud Service
Today Fujitsu and 1QB Information Technologies Inc. announced that they are collaborating on quantum-inspired technology in the field of artificial intelligence...
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Genome Analytics Driving a Healthcare Revolution
Next-generation sequencing methods are empowering doctors and researchers to improve their ability to treat diseases, predict and prevent diseases before they occur...
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Penguin Computing Adds Support for Singularity Containers on POD HPC Cloud
Today Penguin Computing announced support for Singularity containers on its Penguin Computing On-Demand (POD) HPC Cloud and Scyld ClusterWare HPC management software...
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Mellanox InfiniBand to Power Science at University of Waterloo
Today Mellanox announced that the University of Waterloo selected Mellanox EDR 100G InfiniBand solutions to accelerate their new supercomputer. The new supercomputer...
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Gauss Centre in Germany Awards 2.1 Billion Core Hours for Science
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany approved 30 large-scale projects as part of their 17th call for large-scale proposals. Combined, these...
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Intel Omni-Path Architecture: What’s a Supercomputer App Want?
The Intel Omni-Path Architecture is the next-generation fabric for high-performance computing. In this feature, we will focus on what it takes for for supercomputer...
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IBM’s New PowerAI Software Speeds Deep Learning
IBM PowerAI on Power servers with GPU accelerators provide at least twice the performance of our x86 platform; everything is faster and easier: adding memory, setting...
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Living Computers Museum Adds Two Iconic Cray Systems
Today the Living Computers: Museum + Labs added a pair of Cray supercomputers to its permanent collection. The Cray-1 supercomputer went on display at Living Computers...
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Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 Release Sets New Standard for Automation
Today Bright Computing announced the release of Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 and Bright OpenStack 8.0 with advanced, integrated solutions to improve ease-of use and...
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BSC and NVIDIA Showcase Interactive Simulation of Human Body
This week at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia and Barcelona Supercomputing Center demonstrated an interactive visualization of a cardiac computational model...
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DOE to Fund HPC for Manufacturing
Today, DOE announced nearly $3.9 million for 13 projects designed to stimulate the use of high performance supercomputing in U.S. manufacturing. The Office of Energy...
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