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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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GPUs Power Analytical Flavor Systems for Brewing Better Beer
HPC and Beer have always had a certain affinity ever since the days when Cray Research would include a case of Leinenkugel's with every supercomputer. Now, Brian...
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An Open Invitation to Work on the Tianhe 2 Supercomputer
European researchers are welcome to use the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-2, to pursue their research in collaboration with Chinese scientists and HPC...
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Autotune Code from ORNL Tunes Your Building Energy Efficiency
A team at Oak Ridge has developed a set of automated calibration techniques for tuning residential and commercial building energy efficiency software models toAutotune...
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XSEDE & UC Berkeley Offer Online Parallel Computing Course
The XSEDE project and the University of California, Berkeley are offering an online course on parallel computing for graduate students and advanced undergraduates...
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Five Reasons To Deploy Cicso UCS Infrastructure
Cisco UCS solutions allow for a faster and more optimized deployment of a computing infrastructure. This solution brief details how the Cisco UCS infrastructure...
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Mellanox Shipping Spectrum Open Ethernet 25/50/100 Gigabit Switch
Today Mellanox announced that its Spectrum 10, 25, 40, 50 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches are now shipping. According to the company, Mellanox is the first vendor...
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ISC 2016 Issues Call for Papers
The ISC High Performance conference has issued its Call for Papers. As Europe’s most renowned forum for high performance computing, ISC 2016 will take place June...
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Peter ffoulkes Joins OrionX Consulting
Pioneering a new consulting services model for strategy, marketing, and PR, OrionX today announced the appointment of Peter ffoulkes as Partner based in San Francisco...
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New Intel® Omni-Path White Paper Details Technology Improvements
The Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) whitepaper goes through the multitude of improvements that Intel OPA technology provides to the HPC community. InNew...
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Edison Supercomputer Creates 3D Map of Adolescent Universe
Scientists from the NERSC and Berkeley National Laboratory are using a supercomputer to create one of the most complete, three-dimensional maps of the adolescent...
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Interactive Design Powers Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. The new R2D3 Blog offers an instructive Visual Introduction toInteractive...
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GENCI to Collaborate with IBM in Race to Exascale
Today GENCI announced a collaboration with IBM aimed at speeding up the path to exascale computing. Created in 2007 by the French government, GENCI with the aim...
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Accelerating Science with SciDB from NERSC
Over at NERSC, Linda Vu writes that the SciDB open source database system is a powerful tool for helping scientists wrangle Big Data. "SciDB is an open source database...
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From Grand Challenges to Critical Workflows
Geert Wenes writes in the Cray Blog that the next generation of Grand Challenges will focus on critical workflows for Exascale. "For every historical HPC grandFrom...
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SDSC Gets One-year Extension for Gordon Supercomputer
The National Science Foundation has awarded the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) a one-year extension to continue operating its Gordon supercomputer, providing...
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IBTA Publishes RoCE Interoperability List from Plugfest
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the completion of the first Plugfest for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) solutions and the publication...
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KTH in Sweden Moves to EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand
Today Mellanox announced its EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solutions have been selected by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology for use in their PDC Center for High Performance...
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Dell Opens Line of Business for Hyperscale Datacenters
Today Dell announced a new business unit aligned around hyperscale datacenters. "The Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) group is designed to meet the specificDell...
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SUPER Project Aims at Efficient Supercomputing for Scientists
"SUPER builds on past successes and now includes research into performance auto-tuning, energy efficiency, resilience, multi-objective optimization, and end-to-end...
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