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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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Altair Launches PBS Pro 13
Today Altair announced the general availability of PBS Professional 13.0, the latest version of the market-leading software product for high-performance computing...
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New HP Apollo 4000 Systems Fulfill Booming Big Data Analytics & Object Storage Requirements
High Performance Computing and Big Data analytics touch us every day. We each rely on daily weather forecasts, banking and financial information, scientific and...
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D-Wave Breaks 1000 Qubit Quantum Computing Barrier
Today D-Wave Systems announced that it has broken the 1000 qubit barrier, developing a processor about double the size of D-Wave’s previous generation. The post...
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Mellanox Announces ConnectX-4 Lx 25/50 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Today Mellanox announced its ConnectX-4 Lx 10/25/40/50 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, delivering optimal cost-performance and scalable connectivity for Cloud, Web 2.0...
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SGI Ships 2.65 Petaflop ICE XA Supercomputer to ISSP in Japan
Today SGI announced its latest win at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the University of Tokyo. Scheduled to start operation on July 1 of this year...
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HPC on Windows – Does It Still Make Sense?
Could there still be a place for Windows in HPC environments? To find out, we caught up with Jan Wender from German IT service provider science+computing, who will...
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DTU Denmark Chills Computerome with CoolIT Systems
Today CoolIT Systems announced it has successfully deployed its Rack DCLC liquid cooling solution at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS) at the Technical...
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Mellanox Spectrum: World’s First 25/100 Gigabit Open Ethernet Switch
Today Mellanox announced the industry’s first 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Open Ethernet-based, non-blocking switch. Spectrum, the next generation of its Open Ethernet...
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Contrasting how Japan and Europe Promote the Use of HPC
Europe and Japan have come to the same conclusion; HPC resources must be shared and not monopolized by the individual owners of the computer systems themselves....
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Satoshi Matsuoka to Chair ISC 2016 Conference Program
Today ISC Events announced that Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka of Tokyo Institute of Technology will be the program chairman for ISC 2016. "As the program chair, Dr...
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Supercomputing the Interior Dynamics of Stars and Giant Exoplanets
Over at the NASA Ames Research Center, Michelle Moyer writes that the agency is using supercomputer simulations to explore the interior dynamics of stars and giant...
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SGI Broadens HPC Solutions with Red Hat OEM Agreement
Today SGI announced the signing of an OEM agreement with Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions. This agreement enables SGI’s world...
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HPC in medical applications
Medical applications like CT (computed tomography) scanning and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) require quick, accurate results from processing complex algorithms...
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Chelsio Adds Support for GPUDirect RDMA
Today Chelsio Communications announced that its T5 iWARP RDMA over Ethernet adapters now fully support NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA technology. The post Chelsio Adds Support...
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PETRONAS Procures SGI ICE X for Seismic Imaging
Today SGI announced that PETRONAS in Malaysia has procured an SGI ICE X system to accelerate its research and development in subsurface imaging. The post PETRONAS...
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Bright OpenStack Integrates with Ceph
Today Bright Computing announced that its OpenStack management software integrates with Ceph to provide OpenStack with highly available and self-healing storage...
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Ciena Builds Advanced Network for NOAA Environmental Research
Today Ciena announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is building a private optical network powered by the company's converged packet...
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SuperVessel Cloud to Boost OpenPOWER Ecosystem
Today IBM announced SuperVessel, a first-of-its-kind initiative that enables business partners, application developers and university students to conduct innovation...
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PRACEdays15 Puts the Spotlight on Irish HPC
In this report from PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin last week, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World looks at the role of HPC in the host country, Ireland...
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