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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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Cray Adds Intel Xeon Phi Processor to Flagship Line of Supercomputers
Today Cray introduced new performance breakthroughs that will provide customers with the fastest Cray XC supercomputers and Cray Sonexion storage systems to date...
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Asetek Demonstrates Leadership with Recent Global Installations
Sandia National Laboratories has already seen the benefits from a major Asetek liquid cooled HPC system that has been in use for over twelve months. The 600 teraflop...
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New NVIDIA Tesla P100 Brings Pascal Architecture to HPC Applications
“Accelerated computing is the only path forward to keep up with researchers’ insatiable demand for HPC and AI supercomputing,” said Ian Buck, vice president ofNew...
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Rescale HPC Cloud to Expand with $14 Million Funding Round
"High performance computing is a $20 billion market dominated by legacy on-premise IT players with minimal cloud penetration today," said Toshi Otani, ManagingRescale...
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EXTOLL Network Chip Enables Network-attached Accelerators
Today EXTOLL in Germany released its new TOURMALET high-performance network chip for HPC. "The key demands of HPC are high bandwidth, low latency, and high message...
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ASRock Rack to Showcase 2U & 3U HPC Platforms at ISC 2016
Today ASRock Rack announced plans to showcase its 2U and 3U systems for the HPC market at ISC 2016. "First of all, ASRock Rack is showing its new product 3U16N,...
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Supercomputers Joining the Fight Against Cancer
"Supercomputers are key to the Cancer Moonshot. These exceptionally high-powered machines have the potential to greatly accelerate the development of cancer therapies...
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Efforts to Broaden HPC Accelerate as OpenHPC Governing Board and Technical Steering Committee Takes Shape
Since its announcement at SC15 in November, the OpenHPC community has made important strides toward its mission of creating and supporting a flexible open source...
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E4 to Showcase GPU-Accelerated OpenPOWER Servers at ISC 2016
Today Italy's E4 Computer Engineering announced plans to showcase of new NVIDIA GPU-accelerated OpenPOWER servers at ISC 2016 in Frankfurt. "For this edition of...
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NAG Optimizes C and C++ Algorithms for ARM-based Cavium ThunderX Processors
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has engineered NAG C Library algorithms to execute efficiently on Cavium ThunderX ARMv8-A based Workload Optimized Processors...
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PASC16 Wraps in Lausanne
Scientists from a wide range of disciplines gathered at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne from 8 to 10 June 2016 for this year’s PASC Conference. ThePASC16...
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How to Control Your Supercomputing Programs
Pressures by management for cost containment are answered by improving software maintenance procedures and automating many of the repetitive activities that have...
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The GPUltima for Graphics-Intensive VDI Environments
For Universities and Colleges that have a traditional infrastructure, adding new programs and applications is a huge endeavor. The IT staff needs to determine if...
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PSC Celebrates 30 Years of Supercomputing
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) celebrated its 30th anniversary last week. "The beginning of PSC’s fourth decade will see the center with two new supercomputers...
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Paul Messina on the New ECP Exascale Computing Project
Argonne Distinguished Fellow Paul Messina has been tapped to lead the Exascale Computing Project, heading a team with representation from the six major participating...
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Bright Computing Partners with ProfitBricks for Elastic HPC
Today Bright Computing announced a partnership with ProfitBricks, the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company based in Germany. "Cloud-based solutions are increasingly...
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Mellanox Rolls Out ConnectX-4 25 Gb/s Ethernet Adapters
"The performance expectations placed on data centers today are unprecedented and require organizations to make infrastructure decisions that meet today’s demands...
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Specification Released for NVM Express over Fabrics
"Storage technologies are quickly innovating to reduce latency, providing a significant performance improvement for today's cutting-edge applications. NVM Express...
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Building Bridges to the Future
"The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center recently added Bridges to its lineup of world-class supercomputers. Bridges is designed for uniquely flexible, interoperating...
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