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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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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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Gen-Z Consortium to Promote New High-Performance Interconnect
Today a group of leading technology companies today announced the Gen-Z Consortium, an industry alliance working to create and commercialize a new scalable computing...
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Bright Computing Powers HPC Cluster at Oldenburg University
Today Bright Computing announced that Oldenburg University in Germany has once again chosen to renew its license agreement with Bright Computing. "There were three...
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EUDAT Renews European Data Infrastructure for Research
Today EUDAT, the pan European collaborative data infrastructure announced that 16 major European research organizations and datacenters have signed an agreement...
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Sandia’s Bill Camp to Receive Seymour Cray Award
This week, IEEE announced that Dr. William Camp, Director Emeritus at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Computer Society...
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Is Free Lunch Back? Douglas Eadline Looks at the Epiphany-V Processor
Over at Cluster Monkey, Douglas Eadline writes that the "free lunch" performance boost of Moore's Law may indeed be back with the 1024-core Epiphany-V chip that...
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Brookhaven Lab to Develop ECP Exascale Software
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory will play major roles in two of the 15 fully funded application development proposals recently selected by the DOE's...
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LLNL Collaboration to Improve Cancer Screening
Computer scientists at LLNL and Norwegian researchers are collaborating to apply high performance computing to the analysis of medical data to improve screening...
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Supercomputing Tornadogenesis
"We're trying to make high resolution simulations of super cell storms, or tornadoes," McGovern said. "What we get with the simulations are the fundamental variables...
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COMSOL Speeds Multiphysics Modeling & Simulation
Today COMSOL announced updates to their software solutions for multiphysics modeling, simulation, app design and deployment. The latest update of the COMSOL software...
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