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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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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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Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory
Today Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1, the first all-flash server system memory technology. The post Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 MemoryinsideHPC...
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XSEDE Powers Polymer Research at MIT
Researchers at MIT are using XSEDE resources to study polymers, the chemical compounds used to make plastic, rubber, and more. The post XSEDE Powers Polymer Research...
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DDN Solid State Storage Cache Speeds Research at Purdue
Today DDN announced that Purdue University has deployed DDN’s SFA high-performance storage to accelerate the delivery of research results for up to 1,000 researchers...
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Cobham Updates Opera Mulitphysics Software
Cobham has updated their Opera electromagnetic and multiphysics design software. According to Cobham, the Version 18 release of this finite element analysis and...
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Advancing HPC with Collaboration & Co-design
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Tom Wilkie reports on two US initiatives for future supercomputers, announced at the ISC in Frankfurt...
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Compute Canada to Renew National Research Computing Infrastructure
Today Compute Canada announced funding to renew and consolidate the Canadian national platform for advanced research computing. Compute Canada and its regionalCompute...
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BSC and CEA to Collaborate on HPC Innovation
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced plans to collaborate on HPC research...
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