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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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Appentra Joins OpenPOWER Foundation for Auto-Parallelization
Today Appentra announced it has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development community based on the POWER microprocessor architecture. Founded in 2012,Appentra...
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Video: Sonifying Simulations
Scientists typically understand data through graphs and visualizations. But is it possible to use sound to interpret complex information? This video from Georgia...
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PASC17 Plenary to Focus on Supercomputing Cosmology
Today the PASC17 Conference announced that this year’s plenary presentation will be entitled “Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Supercomputers.” The...
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Atos Delivers Bull sequana Supercomputer to Hartree Centre
Today Atos announced the first installation of its Bull sequana X1000 new-generation supercomputer system, in the UK at the Hartree Centre. Founded by the UK government...
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Call for Proposals: SC17 Workshops
The SC17 conference is now accepting proposals for independently planned full- or half-day workshops. SC17 will be held Nov. 12-17 in Denver. The post Call forinsideHPC...
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NERSC Selects Six Teams for Exascale Science Applications Program
Following a call for proposals issued last October, NERSC has selected six science application teams to participate in the NERSC Exascale Science Applications Program...
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Nimbix Expands Cloud Offerings to Enterprises and Developers
"Delivering optimized technology capabilities to different communities is key to a successful public cloud offering”, said Nimbix Chief Technology Officer Leo Reiter...
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HiPEAC17 to Focus Memory Systems, Energy Efficiency and Cybersecurity
Taking place in Stockholm from 23-25 January, the 12th HiPEAC conference will bring together Europe’s top thinkers on computer architecture and compilation to tackle...
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Richard Gerber to Head NERSC’s HPC Department
“This is an exciting time because the whole HPC landscape is changing with manycore, which is a big change for our users,” said Gerber, who joined NERSC’s UserRichard...
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory Takes the Mystery Out of Supercomputing
"Many supercomputer users, like the big DOE labs, are implementing these next generation systems. They are now engaged in significant code modernization efforts...
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China to Develop Exascale Prototype in 2017
The Xinhua news agency reports that China is planning to develop a prototype exascale supercomputer by the end of 2017. "A complete computing system of the exascale...
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Cray to Develop ARM-based Isambard Supercomputer for UK Met Office
“This is an exciting time in high performance computing,” said Prof Simon McIntosh-Smith, leader of the project and Professor of High Performance Computing at the...
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DDN and Inspur Sign Agreement for Joint Sales & Marketing
Today DataDirect Networks announced a joint sales and marketing agreement with Inspur, a leading China-based, cloud-computing and total-solution-and-services provider...
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Bull Atos to Build for HPC Prototype for Mont-Blanc Project using Cavium ThunderX2 Processor
Today the Mont-Blanc European project announced it has selected Cavium’s ThunderX2 ARM server processor to power its new HPC prototype. The new Mont-Blanc prototype...
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IA Optimized Python Rocks in Production
"Intel recently announced the first product release of its High Performance Python distribution powered by Anaconda. The product provides a prebuilt easy-to-install...
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Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing Returns to Chicago in July
"As a bridge to that future, this two-week program fills many gaps that exist in the training computational scientists typically receive through formal education...
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Upgraded Bridges Supercomputer Now in Production
"Bridges’ new nodes add large-memory and GPU resources that enable researchers who have never used high-performance computing to easily scale their applications...
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IBM Rolls Out All-flash Storage for Cognitive Workloads
"The DS8880 All-Flash family is targeted at users that have experienced poor storage performance due to latency, low server utilization, high energy consumption...
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D-Wave Releases Open Quantum Software Environment
"Just as a software ecosystem helped to create the immense computing industry that exists today, building a quantum computing industry will require software accessible...
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