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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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CATALOG Secures $35M in Series B Funding, DNA-Based Computation Expected Next Year
Boston, Sept. 30, 2021 — CATALOG, a startup developing automated DNA-based digital data storage, announced it secured $35 million in Series B funding led by Hanwha...
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A Look Inside the US’s 1st Exascale Supercomputer Facility
Preparing for the nation’s first exascale system, the upcoming HPE Cray EX Frontier “Frontier” system at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National...
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Intel Launches 2nd Loihi Neuromorphic Chip, LANL Investigating ‘Trade-offs’ Between Quantum and Neuromorphic Computing
Intel today released an update on its neuromorphic computing strategy, introducing Loihi 2, its second-generation neuromorphic research chip, and Lava, an open-source...
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Hyperion Research Invites Submissions for HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 30, 2021 – Hyperion Research and the HPC User Forum Steering Committee are now accepting submissions for the 18th round of the HPC Innovation...
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Google Cloud’s N2D Virtual Machines to Use AMD EPYC 7003 Chips
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 30, 2021 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced Google Cloud is expanding its use of AMD EPYC processors with the preview of N2D Virtual...
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Serverfarm Launches ‘Future of Data Centers’ Podcast
LOS ANGELES – Sept. 30, 2021 – Serverfarm, the data center developer and operator, announces the launch of its second Future of Data Centers podcast series on International...
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Building the GPU-accelerated Datacenter
[Sponsored Post] To learn about GPU-accelerated datacenters, join the upcoming live webinar from Thinkmate and PNY. You'll hear about the future of the datacenter...
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MicroSys Partners with AI Chipmaker Hailo on Embedded AI Platform
Munich and Tel Aviv, September 30, 2021 – MicroSys Electronics announced today its partnership with artificial intelligence chipmaker Hailo to launch its miriac...
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Deadline for XSEDE Undergraduate Program Is Oct. 29
An XSEDE-wide effort is underway to expand the community by recruiting and enabling a diverse group of students who have the skills — or are interested in acquiring...
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NSF Funds $1.8M for Univ. of Michigan Research for Room Temperature, Controllable Quantum Nanomaterials
An effort to create quantum semiconductors that operate at room temperature has been awarded $1.8 million by the National Science Foundation. The success of the...
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Quantum Appoints Data Scientist Emily White to Board of Directors
SAN JOSE, Calif. — September 29, 2021— Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced that Emily White has joined the company’s Board of Directors. White’sQuantum...
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AMD Targets HPC-AI for 30x CPU-GPU Energy Efficiency Boost by 2025
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a goal to deliver a 30x increase in energy efficiency for AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPU accelerators used in artificial intelligence...
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Cambridge Quantum Open Sources TKET Software Development Toolkit
Cambridge, UK, September 29, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum (CQ) announced that the latest version (v.0.15) of TKET (pronounced “ticket”), its hardware-agnostic quantum...
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RENCI Named Partner in NSF Institute’s $15M Imageomics Effort
Sept. 29, 2021 — RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been named as a partner in a new effort to use...
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Rube Leung, Chief Scientist for Energy Exascale Earth System Model Project, Named a DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellow.
Ruby Leung likes to ask questions. That started at her high school in Hong Kong, where she also became interested in science. “I was one of those kids in science...
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HPE Launches GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform for Analytics and Data Protection Cloud Services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new cloud services for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform that the company said signify HPE’s entry...
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European Exascale Chip Designer SiPearl Opens 5th Center in Grenoble
Maisons-Laffitte (France), Sept. 28, 2021 – SiPearl, whose mission is to design a high performance, low-power microprocessor for European exascale supercomputers...
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DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee to Meet Sept. 29-30
The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the US Department of Energy Office of Science...
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Accelerating Discovery and Innovation at the University of Alabama with the Dell ‘Cheaha’ Supercomputer
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center known for its innovative and interdisciplinary...
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