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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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Call for Research Papers: ISC 2017
Submissions are now open for the ISC 2017 conference Research Paper Sessions, which aim to provide first-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia...
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Facilitate HPC Deployments with Reference Designs for Intel Scalable System Framework
With Intel Scalable System Framework Architecture Specification and Reference Designs, the company is making it easier to accelerate the time to discovery through...
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Powering Aircraft CFD with the Piz Daint Supercomputer
The Piz Daint supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is again assisting researchers in competition for the prestigious Gordon Bell prize...
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Pegasus 5 CFD Program Wins NASA’s Software of the Year
Over at NASA, Michelle Moyers writes that the 2016 NASA Software of the Year Award has gone to Pegasus 5, a revolutionary CFD tool. "Developed in-house by a team...
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NREL Discovery Could Propel Quantum Computing
Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discovered a use for perovskites that could propel the development of quantumNREL...
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Supercomputing 3D Elevation Maps of Alaska on Blue Waters
Today, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and NSF released 3-D topographic maps that show Alaska’s terrain in greater detail than ever before. PoweredSupercomputing...
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Saving Water with Sandia’s New Datacenter Cooling Technology
Engineers at Sandia are developing new datacenter cooling technologies that could save millions of gallons of water nationwide. The post Saving Water with Sandia...
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Mellanox Ethernet Solutions Power Germany’s Most Advanced Cloud Datacenter
Today Mellanox announced that SysEleven in Germany used the company's 25/50/100GbE Open Ethernet solutions to build a new SSD-based, fully-automated cloud datacenter...
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DOE Funds 13 HPC4Mfg Clean Energy Projects
The Department of Energy has funded $3.8 million fro 13 new industry projects as part of its HPC4Mfg program. "We're excited about this second round of projects...
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Indiana University to Launch Three New HPC Systems
Indiana University plans to unveil three new HPC resources at a launch event on Sept 1: Jetstream, Big Red II+, and Diet. "With these new systems, IU continuesIndiana...
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WINS Program Selects Seven Women to Help Build SCinet at SC16
Seven women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the country have been selected to help build and operate the high performance SCinet conference...
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SCinet Preps World’s Fastest Network Infrastructure at SC16
Over at the SC16 Blog, JP Vetters writes that planning for the SCinet high-bandwidth conference network is a multiyear process. The post SCinet Preps World’s Fastest...
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Report: Using HPC for Public Policy Analysis & Water Resource Management
Researchers from the RAND Corporation and LLNL have joined forces to combine HPC with innovative public policy analysis to improve planning for particularly complex...
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Phytium from China Unveils 64-core ARM HPC Processor
This week at the Hot Chips conference, Phytium Technology from China unveiled a 64-core CPU and a related prototype computer server. "Phytium says the new CPU chip...
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Nor-Tech to Offer Clusters with Intel HPC Orchestrator
Today Nor-Tech announced the imminent rollout of clusters integrated with the Intel HPC Orchestrator. HPC Orchestrator is a licensed, value-add version of OpenHPC...
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Spack Tool Eases Transition to Next-Gen Scientific Simulations
"Spack is like an app store for HPC,” says Todd Gamblin, its creator and lead developer. “It’s a bit more complicated than that, but it simplifies life for users...
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Finalists Announced for Gordon Bell Prize in HPC
"High performance computing continues to underwrite the progress of research using computational methods for the analysis and modeling of complex phenomena,” said...
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Mellanox Open New Singapore Headquarters to Strengthen HPC in Asia
Today Mellanox announced the opening of its new APAC headquarters and solutions centre in Singapore. The Company’s new APAC headquarters will feature a technology...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel Alliance Delivers New Centers of Excellence for HPC
Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have recently created two new Centers of Excellence (CoE) to help customers gain hands-on experience with High Performance...
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