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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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ISC Cloud & Big Data: From Banking to Personalized Medicine
In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World looks at some issues of life and death that will be discussed at the upcoming ISC Cloud...
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DDNtool Streamlines File System Monitoring at Oak Ridge
Over at Oak Ridge, Eric Gedenk writes that monitoring the status of complex supercomputer systems is an ongoing challenge. Now, Ross Miller from OLCF has developed...
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BAW in Germany to Install Additional Bull Supercomputer
Bull Atos will provide a second High Performance Computing cluster to the German Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW). Following the installationBAW...
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Ace Computers Steps Up HPC for Oil & Gas
Ace Computers in Illinois reports that the company is expanding its high performance computer footprint in the Oil & Gas Industry. Not a stranger to this space,...
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Allinea Forge Sparks Convergent Science Combustion Simulation
Convergent Science reports that the company has adopted the Allinea Forge development tool suite. As the leader in internal combustion engine (ICE) simulation,Allinea...
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AMD Forms Radeon Technologies Group for Graphics & Immersive Computing
Today AMD announced the promotion of Raja Koduri to senior vice president and chief architect, Radeon Technologies Group, reporting to president and CEO Dr. Lisa...
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X-ISS Launches CloudHPC Service
Today X-ISS rolled out CloudHPC, a consulting service created to guide organizations through the complex process of moving their HPC systems into the cloud environment...
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Cray Scales Fluent to 129,000 Compute Cores
Today Cray announced a world record by scaling ANSYS Fluent to 129,000 compute cores. "Less than a year ago, ANSYS announced Fluent had scaled to 36,000 cores with...
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How the QPACE 2 Supercomputer is Solving Quantum Physics with Intel Xeon Phi
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Tilo Wettig from the University of Regensburg in Germany describes the unusual design of a supercomputer...
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Reducing Your Data Center “Water Guilt”
Concerns over data center water usage have become topical both in the industry and even in the general press of late. This is not a bad thing as data center water...
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How the XSEDE Scholars Program Fosters Career Opportunities
Over at XSEDE, Scott Gibson writes that Computational Scientist Paul Delgado Says the XSEDE Scholars Program helped him realize his dream of solving real-life problems...
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Alan Turing Institute Hits the Ground Running for HPC & Data Science
The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science. It has marked its first few days of operations with the announcement of its new director...
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Engility to Support NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Today Engility announced it has been awarded a prime position on a $25 million multiple award contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
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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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