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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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ISC 2017 Adds STEM Student Day
Today ISC 2017 announced the inclusion of the STEM Student Day & Gala at this year’s conference. Taking place June 21 in Frankfurt, the new program aims to connect...
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1.5 Petaflop Supercomputer coming to IIT-Kharagpur in India
Today the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur announced that it will be the first academic institution to open a supercomputing facility under India's National...
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Penguin Computing Adds Omni-Path and Lustre to its HPC Cloud
Today Penguin Computing announced a significant expansion of their Penguin Computing On-Demand (POD) High Performance Computing Cloud. The new offering includes...
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SuperMUC Helps Discover New Species Critical to Rainforest Ecosystems
Researchers using the SuperMUC cluster in Germany have discovered a set of unknown species in rainforest soils. As described in a new paper published in NatureSuperMUC...
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Supercomputing the Black Hole Speed Limit
Supermassive black holes have a speed limit that governs how fast and how large they can grow,” said Joseph Smidt of the Theoretical Design Division at LANL. Using...
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DDN Names Bret Costelow VP of Global Sales
“Bret Costelow is an inspiring sales leader with a clear understanding of our customers’ needs and a vision of how DDN’s technologies and solutions can best solve...
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Allinea Software Powers Heart Simulation Framework
The Allinea Forge parallel code development suite is helping to speed up exciting computational cardiology research at the Medical University of Graz. "Utilizing...
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RWTH Aachen University Deploys NEC LX Supercomputer
Today NEC Corporation announced the deployment of an LX supercomputer at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Featuring offering high performance computing services...
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HPE Supercomputer to Power Chemical Research at BASF
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced plans to deploy one of the world’s largest supercomputers for industrial chemical research at BASF's Ludwigshafen headquarters...
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OFA Workshop in Austin to Put Spotlight on InfiniBand and RoCE
"The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) workshop is an annual event devoted to advancing the state of the art in networking. The workshop is known for showcasing a broad...
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LANL Donates Supercomputer to University of New Mexico
Los Alamos National Laboratory has donated a decommissioned supercomputer to the University of New Mexico Center for Advanced Research Computing. The machine was...
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Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab to Install D-Wave 2000Q System
Today D-Wave Systems announced that Google, NASA, and Universities Space Research Association (USRA) have elected to upgrade to the new D-Wave 2000Q system. The...
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Ethernet Alliance to Demo 400G Networks at OFC 2017
Today the Ethernet Alliance announced plans of details of its upcoming OFC 2017 interoperability demo featuring the full spectrum of Ethernet speeds from 1 Gigabit...
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SUSE Adds HPC Module for ARM-based Systems
Over at the SUSE Blog, Jay Kruemcke writes that the High-Performance Computing Module (HPC Module) for SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES) is now available for 64-bitSUSE...
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PBS Works User Group comes to Las Vegas May 22-25
Altair will host the PBS Works User Group May 22-25 in Las Vegas. This four-day event (including 2 days of user presentations, round table discussions and surrounded...
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Day-Long Deep Learning Track Comes to ISC 2017
Today ISC 2017 announced a day-long Deep Learning track on June 21 as part of its technical program. The full conference takes place June 18-21 in Frankfurt, Germany...
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Flatiron Institute to Repurpose Gordon Supercomputer
The majority of SDSC’s data-intensive Gordon supercomputer will be used by Simons for ongoing research following completion of the system’s tenure as an NSF resource...
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Intel Xeon Phi Memory Mode Programming (MCDRAM) in a Nutshell
'In this article, James Reinders discusses one of the “mode” options that Intel Xeon Phi processors have to offer unprecedented configurability: memory modes. For...
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vScaler to Showcase OpenHPC & Deep Learning at Cloud Expo Europe 2017
Today vScaler announced plans to showcase their HPC cloud platform March 15-16 at the upcoming Cloud Expo Europe Conference in London. Supported by two of its strategic...
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