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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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Poznan in Poland Goes Green with CoolIT Systems
Today CoolIT Systems announced that the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center has successfully deployed Rack DCLC liquid cooling. Through a collaborationPoznan...
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Photonics Moves Forward for Future Computing Technology
The development of photonic technologies to speed up computing has taken two steps forward, following recent announcements demonstrating the use of photonics in...
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Hunting Supernovas with Supercomputers
Caltech researchers are using NERSC supercomputers to search for newly born supernovas. The details of their findings appear May 20 in an advance online issue of...
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Sandia’s Mark Taylor Receives DOE Secretary’s Honor Award
Today Sandia National Laboratories announced that researcher Mark Taylor has received the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2014 Secretary’s Honor Award — the department...
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GCS in Germany Awards Close to 1 Billion Core Hours
Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany announced the award of close to 1 billion compute core hours to scientifically outstanding national research...
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SC15 Announces Test of Time Award Winners
Today SC15 announced the winners of their annual Test of Time Award. The Award recognizes an outstanding paper that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. The...
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Announcing AWS Educate: a Free Resource for Cloud Learning
With more and more enterprises moving to the cloud, there is a growing demand for developers, information technology professionals, and forward-thinking business...
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Advanced Clustering Builds 32 Teraflop “Buddy” Supercomputer
Today Advanced Clustering Technologies announced that the University of Central Oklahoma’s Center for Research and Education in Interdisciplinary Computation (CREIC)...
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Two More Steps Towards Quantum Computing
Quantum computing has taken a step closer with two recent announcements demonstrating methods for error correction in addition to a new scalable design for quantum...
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HPC Appliance Computing Goes Virtual
Altair’s HyperWorks Unlimited Virtual Appliance goes fully into the cloud with an Amazon-hosted option that lets users get started with HPC in just minutes. The...
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Bright OpenStack Distribution Manages Private Clouds
Today Bright Computing announced Bright OpenStack, a fully integrated software stack for deployment, management, and maintenance of private clouds. The post Bright...
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ISC to Showcase Women in HPC
With a BoF session and a special workshop on Women in HPC, the issue of gender diversity will be front and center at ISC High Performance in Frankfurt. "Improving...
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Alternatives to x86: Future Processing Technologies
In the second article in his series on future hardware for HPC, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World looks at alternatives to the x86, including server on...
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Apply Now for SC15 Doctoral Showcase
SC15 is now accepting applications for their Doctoral Showcase. As part of the Technical Program, the Doctoral Showcase provides an important opportunity for students...
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ANSYS Powers Quantum Computing Engineering at D-Wave
D-Wave Systems reports that the company is designing and building the world's most advanced quantum computers with help from engineering simulation solutions from...
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HPC Wales to Foster High Performance Computing Competency Network for SMEs
Today HPC Wales and Bangor University announced joint funding to lead Europe’s Network of HPC Competency Centers for SME’s. The post HPC Wales to Foster High Performance...
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How HPC is increasing speed and accuracy
The overwhelming task of high performance computing today is the processing of huge amounts of data quickly and accurately. Just adding greater numbers of moreHow...
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Supermicro Rolls Out X10 3U MicroCloud
Today Super Micro Computer announced a new 3U 8-node MicroCloud solution supporting Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 optimized for data intensive analytics applications in...
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Supercomputing Quantum Mechanics
Supercomputers in the USA, Europe, and Japan have proved indispensable for research into the effects of quantum mechanics at hugely different length scales. The...
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