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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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InfiniBand Enables Intelligent Networks
"The path to Exascale computing is clearly paved with Co-Design architecture. By using a Co-Design approach, the network infrastructure becomes more intelligent...
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Survey Shows DDN as HPC Storage Market Leader
Today DDN announced that it fortified its position as the HPC storage market leader during 2015. According to a recently published Intersect360 Research HPC User...
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COMSOL Multiphysics Comes to Rescale Cloud Simulation Platform
Today Comsol announced the availability of COMSOL Multiphysics software on the Rescale Cloud simulation platform. "For customers seeking HPC resources for bigger...
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NSF’s iPlant Rebrands to CyVerse, Provides Data Management and Computation Across Scientific Disciplines
The National Science Foundation’s premier data management platform for the life sciences has rebranded, shedding the project’s original label of iPlant Collaborative...
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The Impact of HPC on Music
Many will be familiar with HPC and industrial or scientific applications, but now HPC is making its impact on something that touches the soul of millions and millions...
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How HPC is Helping Solve Climate and Weather Forecasting Challenges
Data accumulation is just one of the challenges facing today weather and climatology researchers and scientists. To understand and predict Earth’s weather and climate...
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China Develops Darwin Neuromorphic Chip
Researchers from Zhejiang University and Hangzhou Dianzi University in China have developed the Darwin Neural Processing Unit (NPU), a neuromorphic hardware co-processor...
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Podcast: Strengthening High Performance Computing with OpenHPC
OpenHPC is a collaborative, community effort that initiated from a desire to aggregate a number of common ingredients required to deploy and manage High Performance...
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China’s HPC Vendors Look to US and European Markets
Who are the world’s most important vendors of supercomputers, at least as measured by the number of systems they have in the Top500? HP is the leader with a 31China...
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Is HPC Heading Towards Openness, Chaos, or a Split?
"To be successful in high-performance computing (HPC) today, it is no longer enough to sell good hardware: vendors need to develop an ‘ecosystem’ in which other...
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JYU Sets World Record for Pore-scale Flow Simulations
An interdisciplinary research team from JYU in Finland has set a new world record in the field of fluid flow simulations through porous materials. The team, coordinated...
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ESI Opens New European HPC Center
Today the French ESI Groupu announced the opening of its new European HPC Center. The datacenter is now based on the Teratec Campus, an ideal location to launch...
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Lustre and Persistent Storage
Lustre was originally developed as the fastest scratch file system for HPC workloads that supercomputer centers could get, but has over the years matured to beLustre...
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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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