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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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SGI UV Powers Romanian Aerospace Agency
The National Institute of Aerospace Research in Romania will power its scientific and aeronautical research program with a new SGI UV system. "This is the second...
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Penguin Computing Adds Pascal GPUs to Open Compute Tundra Systems
Today Penguin Computing announced availability of Open Compute-based Tundra Relion X1904GT and Tundra Relion 1930g servers, powered by NVIDIA Tesla P40 and P4 GPU...
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Mellanox Shipping ConnectX-5 Adapter
"We are pleased to start shipping the ConnectX-5, the industry’s most advanced network adapter, to our key partners and customers, allowing them to leverage our...
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BSC Collaborates with OpenFog Consortium
"To reinforce and continue with our pioneering work on fog computing that started in 2008, we pursue synergies between leading technology companies and academic...
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ASML taps Livermore for Extreme UV Chip Manufacturing
Tomorrow's top supercomputers will require chips built using advanced lithography far beyond today's capabilities. Towards this end, Lawrence Livermore National...
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Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Updates for Deep Learning Advances
Today Microsoft released an updated version of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, a system for deep learning that is used to speed advances in areas such as speech and...
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Seagate Launches World’s Fastest Hard Drive
"Performance demands on enterprise datacenters today are increasing as customers consider agile storage solutions to handle diverse workloads. The key to success...
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BSC Joins OpenPOWER Foundation
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation. The news will be part of a keynote address by BSC Director, Mateo Valero at the OpenPOWER...
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Argo Project Developing OS Technology for Exascale
Today's operating systems were not developed with the immense complexity of Exascale in mind. Now, researchers at Argonne National Lab are preparing for HPC's next...
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ORNL Testing Compact “Emu Chick” Memory Server for Big Data
Today Emu Technology announced that it has delivered an Emu Chick Memory Server to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "ORNL intends to study the system for streaming...
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Latest NAG Numerical Library Adds Optimization Modeling Suite
Today the Numerical Algorithms Group announces the latest version of its flagship software, the NAG Library, Mark 26. In this release, NAG has introduced an Optimization...
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Dell EMC Isilon Goes All-Flash for Unstructured Data
Today Dell EMC announced a new member of the Dell EMC Isilon product family. Designed around an all-flash, the Isilon scale-out family of NAS storage is designed...
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SGI Powers New SPICE System for Weather Forecasting at UK Met Office
"With the new SPICE system from SGI, we have seen a step-change in performance for our researchers and scientists doing post-processing of weather and climate data...
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Moving Beyond Moore’s Law with the New CRNCH Center at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is taking on the challenge of moving computing past the end of Moore’s Law by standing up a new interdisciplinary research center, which is known as...
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HPC Bear Cloud to Power Research at University of Birmingham
Designed specifically with researchers in mind, the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR) Cloud will augment an already rich set of IT services at...
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The High Performance Virtual Computer for Graphics-Intensive Applications
Many industries deploy graphics-intensive applications on single user workstations with individual GPU resources. For those who have switched to a virtualization...
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PASC17 Conference to Focus on HPC & Precision Medicine
Today the PASC17 Conference announced a track focused on Precision Medicine as Special Topic for Emerging Domains. "Precision medicine, also referred to as personalized...
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AMD GPUs to Speed Alibaba Cloud
Today AMD announced that the Alibaba Cloud will use AMD Radeon Pro GPU technology to help expand its cloud computing offerings and accelerate adoption of its cloud...
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New OpenCAPI Consortium to Boost Server Performance 10x
"IBM has decided to double down on our commitment to open standards and enablement of industry innovation by opening up access to our CAPI technology to the entire...
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