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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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Dolphin Demos 300ns Latency Across PCI Express at IDF
Today Norway's Dolphin Interconnect Solutions demonstrated record a low latency of 300 nanoseconds at IDF 2015. Dolphin achieved this record by adding Intel Xeon...
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KAUST is the Latest Intel Parallel Computing Center
KAUST in Saudi Arabia has been named as the latest Intel Parallel Computing Center. "The new PCC aims to provide scalable software kernels common to scientificKAUST...
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Innovation Keeps Supercomputers Cool
"The range of cooling options now available is testimony to engineering ingenuity. HPC centers can choose between air, oil, dielectric fluid, or water as the heat...
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Seagate Announces Plans to Buy Dot Hill Systems
Today Seagate announced plans to buy data storage system maker Dot Hill Systems for approximately $645 million. The post Seagate Announces Plans to Buy Dot Hill...
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ORNL Hosts Meetings on OpenACC & OpenMP
Staff from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE)Office of Science User Facility, held prominent roles in two recent...
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FORMAT in Poland to Deploy RackCDU Liquid Cooling Systems
Today Asetek announced an order for its RackCDU data center liquid cooling system placed by FORMAT Sp. Ltd, an IT solutions provider located in Poland. Building...
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Research Demands More Compute Power and Faster Storage for Complex Computational Applications
Many Universities, private research labs and government research agencies have begun using High Performance Computing (HPC) servers, compute accelerators and flash...
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CIARA Announces World-record SPEC Performance
Today CIARA announced that its ORION HF servers have achieved record performance on 18 SPEC CPU 2006 benchmarks. According to the company, CIARA’s complete ORION...
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Maximizing Benefits of HPC with the National Strategic Computing Initiative
"What we’re seeing in President Obama’s Executive Order is a major proof point of the importance of high-end computer technology in bolstering and redefining national...
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New BeeGFS Release Targets High-Availability Storage
Today Fraunhofer ITWM and ThinkParQ announced a new major release of the BeeGFS parallel file system. Now available as a free download, BeeGFS version 2015.03-r1...
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Colfax to Offer Free Online Training for Intel Code Modernization
Today Colfax International announced free online workshops on parallel programming and optimization for Intel architecture, including Intel Xeon processors andColfax...
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Materials Imaging and Data Sciences Converge at Oak Ridge Workshop
Oak Ridge National Lab recently hosted a Materials Imaging Workshop. Entitled "Big, Deep and Smart Data Analytics in Materials Imaging," the workshop explored research...
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NEDO in Japan Funds Solar Research at TACC
Thanks to $13 Million in research funding from NEDO in Japan, the University of Texas at Austin will begin using alternative energy sources to power some of its...
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Supermicro Deploys Sango Supercomputer at OIST in Japan
Today Super Micro announced the deployment of a new supercomputer in Japan at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) supporting...
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Lustre* at the Core of HPC and Big Data Convergence
Companies already using High-performance Computing (HPC) with a Lustre file system for simulations, such as those in the financial, oil and gas, and manufacturing...
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Chips Evolve for Data Intensive Niches
"Data centric workloads are growing in importance in high-performance computing and, in an industry that has been dominated by a handful of technologies for several...
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Argonne Selects Theta Supercomputer Early Science Projects
Today the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) announced the selection of six projects for its Theta Early Science Program (ESP), a collaborative effort...
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Australia Connects to US Pacific Research Platform
Today the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) announced a partnership...
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Bringing HPC to the SME
Tom Wilkie reports from ISC 2015 on moves to make it easier for SMEs to access high-performance computing, and on why it matters. The post Bringing HPC to the SME...
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