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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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SC15 HPC Transforms – but how, what, where, when, why and for whom?
In this special guest feature from the Print'nFly Guide to SC15 in Austin, Peter ffoulkes from OrionX looks at how HPC Transforms. "If we thought the last fiveSC15...
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Agave Platform Provides Science as a Service
Work began recently on the Agave Platform, an open ‘Science-as-a-Service’ (ScaaS) cloud platform for reproducible science. Funded by a $4 Million NSF grant, the...
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Kyoto University Orders SGI UV Supercomputer for Life Sciences
Today SGI Japan announced that the Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) at Kyoto University has ordered an SGI UV 2000 supercomputer. "The large-scale hybrid supercomputer...
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Poznan Supercomputing Center Expands CoolIT Systems Liquid Cooling to 1160 Nodes
Today CoolIT Systems announced that the Poznan Supercomputing Center has ordered its second deployment of Rack DCLC data center liquid cooling systems. Building...
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European Commission Steps Up Funding of HPC
In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports that the European Commission is funding research projects and centers of excellence...
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ExaHyPE Project to Develop Exascale Software for Geophysics and Astrophysics
A new EU research project called "ExaHyPE" is developing open-source software for exascale-class supercomputers. As an international project coordinated at TUMExaHyPE...
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DDN Reports Growing Momentum Leading into SC15
Today DDN announced the highest bookings quarter in the company’s history with double-digit year-over-year growth. The post DDN Reports Growing Momentum Leading...
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Justin Rattner to Keynote SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop
Today the SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop announced that parallel supercomputing pioneer Justin Rattner will deliver the keynote address at their event in Austin...
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Submissions Open for ISC 2016 in Frankfurt
Submissions are now open for the ISC 2016 conference including workshops, tutorials, birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions, research papers, research posters, and the...
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Rogue Wave Software CodeDynamics Expands the Reach of Multithreaded Debugging
Today Rogue Wave Software announced CodeDynamics, the next generation of dynamic analysis for data-intensive commercial applications. CodeDynamics expands the reach...
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Mellanox Powers World’s First 100G End-to-End Cloud at Monash University
Today Mellanox announced that Monash University in Australia has selected the company's CloudX platform based on Mellanox’s Spectrum SN2700 Open Ethernet™ switches...
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CEA in France Selects Scality for HPC Storage
Today Scality announced that company's software-based storage for has been selected by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) to power...
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SGI UV 300RL Enables Real-time Analytics with Oracle Database In-Memory
Today SGI introduced the SGI UV 300RL for big data in-memory analytics. As a new model in the SGI UV server line certified and supported with Oracle Linux, theSGI...
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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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