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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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Paula Stephan and Paul Morin to Keynote PEARC17 in New Orleans
Today the PEARC17 conference announced their lineup of keynote speakers. The conference takes place in July 9–13 in New Orleans. The post Paula Stephan and Paul...
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Echelon Code on Minksy Servers Sets Record for Oil & Gas Simulation
IBM and Stone Ridge Technology have announced a new performance milestone in reservoir simulation that will improve efficiency and lower the cost of production....
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Your Workload Manager is Your Latest X Factor
Enterprise customers consistently demand improved performance from every component in their HPC infrastructure, including their workload manager. Ian Lumb, Solutions...
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Argonne Seeking Proposals to Advance Big Data in Science
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Data Science Program (ADSP) is now accepting proposals for projects hoping to gain insight into very large datasets produced...
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Mellanox InfiniBand Delivers up to 250 Percent Higher ROI for HPC
Today Mellanox announced that EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions have demonstrated from 30 to 250 percent higher HPC applications performance versus Omni-Path. These...
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PBS Works will Power New Supercomputer at BASF
Over at the Altair Blog, Jochen Krebs writes that the new HPC cluster at BASF will run PBS Works workload management software. "What does it take to go from months...
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Advanced Clustering Installs New Supercomputer at Clarkson University
This week Advanced Clustering installed a new supercomputer at Clarkson University in New York. "Our project is a small-scale super computer with a lot of horsepower...
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Cedar Supercomputer Comes to Canada
Simon Fraser University (SFU), Compute Canada and WestGrid were all part of the major new update to Canada's HPC resources with the recent announcement of the launch...
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MIT Professor Runs Record Google Compute Engine job with 220K Cores
Over at the Google Blog, Alex Barrett writes that an MIT math professor recently broke the record for the largest-ever Compute Engine cluster, with 220,000 cores...
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Michael Resch Named Chairman of GCS in Germany
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing in Germany announced that Prof. Dr. Michael M. Resch is the new chairman of the GCS Board of Directors. “Over the coming...
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PSSC Labs Updates CBeST Cluster Management Software
Today PSSC Labs announced it has refreshed its CBeST (Complete Beowulf Software Toolkit) cluster management package. CBeST is already a proven platform deployed...
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Rescale Announces ScaleX Labs with Intel Xeon Phi and Omni-Path
Today the Rescale HPC Cloud introduced the ScaleX Labs with Intel Xeon Phi processors and Intel Omni-Path Fabric managed by R Systems. The collaboration bringsRescale...
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Rambus Collaborates with Microsoft on Cryogenic Memory
"With the increasing challenges in conventional approaches to improving memory capacity and power efficiency, our early research indicates that a significant change...
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Call for Proposals reflects magnitude of PRACE 2
Today the European PRACE initiative announced that their 14th Call for Proposals yielded 113 eligible proposals of which 59 were awarded a total of close to 2 thousand...
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Anaconda Open Data Science Platform comes to IBM Cognitive Systems
Today IBM announced that it will offer the Anaconda Open Data Science platform on IBM Cognitive Systems. Anaconda will also integrate with the PowerAI softwareAnaconda...
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OpenPOWER Developer Congress Event to Focus on Machine Learning
Today IBM announced that the first annual OpenPOWER Foundation Developer Congress will take place May 22-25 in San Francisco. With a focus on Machine Learning,OpenPOWER...
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Baidu Deep Learning Service adds Latest NVIDIA Pascal GPUs
"Baidu and NVIDIA are long-time partners in advancing the state of the art in AI,” said Ian Buck, general manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. “Baidu understands...
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Podcast: How AI Can Improve the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases
In this AI Podcast, Mark Michalski from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Clinical Data Science discusses how AI is being used to advance medicine.Podcast...
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Engility Pursues NASA Advanced Computing Services Contract
Today Engility that the company will bring its world-class high performance computing capabilities to bear as it competes to win NASA’s Advanced Computing Services...
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