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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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DDN Accelerates Intel Omni-Path Fabric for HPC
Today DataDirect Networks announced DDN Omni-Connect, the industry’s first custom Intel Omni-Path enabled storage architecture. DDN Omni-Connect enabled storage...
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Dell Rolls Out DSS-branded Servers
Today Dell announced its first DSS-branded servers. Formally announced in August 2015, Dell Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) is a new line of business within...
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Western Digital to Acquire SanDisk
Today Western Digital announced plans to acquire SanDisk for a combination of cash and stock worth approximately $19 billion. The transaction has been approvedWestern...
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GPUs Speed Reservoir Simulation with Cray CS-Storm Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the achievement of a new performance benchmark for reservoir simulations using Stone Ridge Technology's ECHELON reservoir simulation software...
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NSF Funds Supercomputing for Neuroscientists at SDSC
Neuroscientists will find an easier path to supercomputiong thanks to new SDSC funding from the NSF. The project will contribute to the national BRAIN initiative...
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Lustre* Accelerates the Convergence of Big Data and HPC in Financial Services
Across industries, companies are beginning to watch the convergence of High-performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data. Many organizations in the Financial Services...
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Researchers Propose “Brain Observatory” Neurotechnology Centers
Researchers are calling for a coordinated national network of neurotechnology centers or "brain observatories." As proposed in an Opinion paper published in the...
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PNNL Launches CENATE Computing Proving Ground
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has opened the CENATE Center for Advanced Technology Evaluation, a first-of-its-kind computing proving ground. Designed to...
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Bitfusion Labs Opens for Boosting Application Performance
Today Bitfusion announced Bitfusion Labs, a collaborative proving ground for delivering performance improvements for hardware-accelerated applications. The post...
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Researching Origins of the Universe at the Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology
In this special guest feature, Linda Barney writes that researchers at the University of Cambridge are using an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor-based supercomputer from...
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Agencies, Universities Announce Recipients of Inaugural Program to Expand Role of Women in Leading-Edge Networks
Five up-and-coming networking experts have been selected to take part in the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program. The women, all early- to mid-career networking...
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Asetek Continues Momentum with Largest Server Installation Order to Date
Today Asetek announced its biggest purchase order to date for its RackCDU data center liquid cooling system. The order was placed by an undisclosed Original Equipment...
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Kathy Yelick to Receive Ken Kennedy Award at SC15
Today ACM and IEEE announced that Kathy Yelick from LBNL will be the recipient of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for innovative research contributions...
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Bright, Dell, & Eduline Build HPC Solution for Turkey’s Anadolu University
Today Bright Computing announced that Anadolu University has chosen a collaborative solution from Bright, Dell and Eduline, for its high performance computing environment...
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High Performance Computing GPU Accelerators in Deep Learning
Training the neural networks used in deep learning is an ideal task for GPUs because GPUs can perform many calculations at once (parallel calculations), meaning...
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Moab Powers Dynamic Resource Sharing at HPC4Health in Canada
Today Adaptive Computing announced that they have fully deployed Moab 8.1 at the HPC4Health consortium in Canada. “The folks at Adaptive Computing helped us create...
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Cray Opens EMEA Research Lab in Bristol
Today Cray announced the creation of the Cray Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Research Lab. The Cray EMEA Research Lab will foster the development of deep...
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IBM Launches LC OpenPower Servers
Today IBM announced launched a new LC series of servers that infuse technologies from members of the OpenPOWER Foundation and are part of IBM's Power Systems portfolio...
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Building the CLIMB Project – World’s Largest Single System for Microbial Bioinformatics
A new private Cloud HPC system will soon benefit bioinformatics researchers in their work on bacterial pathogens. The Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics...
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