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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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HPCG Benchmark Gains Traction for Ranking Supercomputers
The High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark continues to gain traction in the high-performance computing community. “HPCG is designed to complement...
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Lustre: This is Not Your Grandmother’s (or Grandfather’s) Parallel File System
"Over the last several years, an enormous amount of development effort has gone into Lustre to address users’ enterprise-related requests. Their work is not only...
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Enabling New Frontiers in CFD Research at Argonne with Allinea DDT
Scientists from the Heat and Mass Transfer Technological Center (CTTC) at the Technical University of Catalonia in Spain have harnessed the extreme performanceEnabling...
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Is the Future CPU+GPU or CPU+FPGA?
"At SC15, IBM, in turn, announced new offerings centered "on the tight integration of IBM’s Power processors with accelerators." But it was an announcement about...
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ClusterVision Trinity Private Cloud Moves to UberCloud HPC Application Containers
Today ClusterVision and UberCloud formally announced the integration of UberCloud Application Containers with Trinity, ClusterVision’s private cloud solution. Trinity...
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Apply for International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Slovenia
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the seventh InternationalApply...
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Deep Learning System Replaces Hand-Engineered Components With Neural Networks
Baidu Research has unveiled new research results from its Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL). Results include the ability to accurately recognize both English and Mandarin...
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New Allinea 6.0 HPC Developer Tools Suite
Today Allinea released version 6.0 of their HPC development tools suite Allinea Forge and Performance Reports. Building on their commitment to serving the scientific...
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Cleversafe takes Software Defined Storage to Industry Standard Hardware
Today IBM's Cleversafe announced its software defined/hardware aware storage approach to enable organizations with massive-scale data demands to easily take advantage...
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Call for Participation: XSEDE16 Conference in Miami
The XSEDE16 conference has issued its Call for Participation. With a conference theme of Diversity, Big Data, Science at Scale: Enabling the Next-Generation ofCall...
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SC15 Announces Attendance Record & Awards Roundup
SC15 has released results from the Supercomputing conference in Austin. This year, the conference drew a record 12,868 attendees, including 4,829 who registered...
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HPC Myths Need Not Hamper the Technology’s Growth
In this special guest feature, Kristin Hansen, Chief Marketing Officer at Bright Computing writes that HPC doesn't need to be held back by commonly held misconceptions...
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GPUs Power Facebook’s New Deep Learning Machine
Today Nvidia announced that Facebook will power its next-generation computing system with Tesla GPUs, enabling a broad range of new machine learning applications...
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CoolIT Systems Named Alberta’s Exporter of the Year
Today CoolIT Systems announced that the company has been named 2015 Exporter of the Year by the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) and JuneWarren-Nickle’s...
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Virtual HPC Clusters Power Cancer Research at eMedLab
A partnership of seven leading bioinformatics research and academic institutions called eMedLab is using a new private cloud, HPC environment and big data system...
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Numascale Expands Performance and Features with NumaConnect-2
"At SC15, Numascale announced the availability of NumaConnect-2, a scalable cache coherent memory technology that connects servers in a single high performanceNumascale...
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Univa Supports Dynamic Clusters on Microsoft Azure
"With Azure, Microsoft makes it easy for Univa customers to run true performance applications on demand in a cloud environment," said Bill Bryce, Univa Vice President...
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1degreenorth to Prototype HPDA Infrastructure in Singapore
At SC15, 1degreenorth announced plans to build an on-demand High Performance Computing Big DataAnalytics (“HPC-BDA”) infrastructure the National Supercomputing1degreenorth...
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How Can HPC Best Help Pharma R&D?
"The challenges facing informatics systems in the pharmaceutical industry’s R&D laboratories are changing. The number of large-scale computational problems in the...
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