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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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New Competence Centre to Fast-Track Academic and SME Participation in EU Supercomputing Initiative
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), Ireland’s high-performance computing authority, today, Wednesday 2nd September launched Ireland’s Euro-HPC Competence...
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Dell Technologies HPC Community: Cancer Computer Founder Roy Chartier Talks HPC in Support of Cancer, COVID Research
Roy Chartier, founder and CTO of Cancer Computer, Ottawa, with more than 25 years in HPC, HPDA and AI, has assembled a team of volunteers who support cancer researchers...
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GigaSpaces Announces Version 15.5 for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments to Empower Digital Transformation Initiatives
New York — September 2, 2020 —GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory data and analytics processing platform, announced today the release...
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IDC: Led by U.S., Global AI Spending Will More than Double by 2024
Those predicting another “AI winter” have a quarrel on their hands with industry analyst firm International Data Corp., which forecasts global spending on AI will...
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Radio Free HPC: MLperf Wars and AMD’s Gawdy Earnings
Summer inventory clearance days for Radio Free HPC! In this episode, we talk about the spate of MLperf benchmarks and how AMD hit it out of the park on their most...
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Taking a Virtual Turn, ModSim 2020 Focuses on the AI Era
From the front lines of this year’s ModSim conference, Charity Plata, Computational Science Initiative, Communications, Brookhaven National Laboratory, send this...
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Managing Complexity in the New Era of HPC
In this contributed article, Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing, discusses how the HPC industry has entered an era of change in the past few years. New technologies...
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DOE, White House Announce Members of U.S. Quantum Advisory Committee
Technologists from the national labs, universities, federal agencies and industry have been named by the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Office of...
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NERSC Supercomputers Targeted by Hacker: Guilty Plea in Attempted Sale of Access
A guilty plea was entered today by a hacker, allegedly a member of the hacking group Underground Intelligence Agency, for tying to sell access to supercomputers...
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DOE Launches $115M/5-Year Effort to Create 5 Quantum Research Centers
Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science...
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Composable Computing at SDSC
In this Q&A, SDSC Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas explains the rationale for composable systems and the approach taken with the new Expanse supercomputer...
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Long-time IBM HPC Strategist Turek Named CTO of DNA-based Storage Start-up
Long-time IBM HPC strategist David Turek has left the company after 25 years and has joined Catalog, which calls itself the world’s first DNA-based platform for...
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DOD Inks $32M HPC Deal with Liqid; Forms AI Partnership with DOE, Microsoft
The Department of Defense has made HPC news twice in the last few days – in one, the Army will spend $32 million on supercomputing technology from composable infrastructure...
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HPC-AI Advisory Council 2020 Australia Conference Features Inspired Experts & Works
Hosted by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) in collaboration with the HPC-AI Advisory Council, the HPC-AI Advisory Council 2020 Australia...
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Radio Free HPC: Is Amazon’s Graviton2 Ready for Prime (Time)?
The show starts on a high note, with Henry’s audio being amazingly echo free. Usually we hear a lot of echo as Henry talks, which is due to the rammed earth walls...
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Arm and DARPA Announce 3-Year Development Agreement
Arm and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a three-year partnership agreement to “enable the research community that supports...
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Veteran Argonne Supercomputers Help Convert CO2 into Ethanol
By supercomputing standards, Argonne National Lab’s Bebop (1.75 terflops, stood up in 2017, bumped off the Top500 list after the June 2019 ranking) and Blues (stood...
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I Really Don’t Care About TCO … It’s RCO I am Worried About
In this sponsored post by Adam Marko, Director of Life Science Solutions – Panasas, Inc., we look at what we are calling Research Cost of Ownership (RCO) and the...
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Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast – ECP Leadership Discusses Highlights, Challenges, Impact
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is tasked with guiding the U.S. effort to build a “capable exascale ecosystem” by the early to...
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