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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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Fujitsu Begins Shipping Fugaku Supercomputer
Today Fujitsu announced that the company has commenced shipping the supercomputer Fugaku. Jointly developed with RIKEN, Fugaku is slated to start general operation...
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Video: Characterizing Network Paths in and out of the Clouds
Igor Sfiligoi from SDSC gave this talk at CHEP 2019. "Cloud computing is becoming mainstream, with funding agencies moving beyond prototyping and starting to fund...
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SC19 Cluster Competition Configs: Small is Mostly Beautiful
"Ok, you’re running a student cluster competition. You tell the university student teams that they can build any cluster they want with the only restriction being...
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Lenovo Powers French Space Agency CNES Data Center for IO500 world ranking
A newly upgraded data center at the French Space Agency CNES took 15th place in the world ranking in the IO500 list unveiled this month. IO500 is an international...
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Radio Free HPC Recaps the SC19 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team recaps the SC19 Student Cluster Competition. "We talk about the student configurations, kicked around the pros and cons...
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KISTI adds Rescale HPC Cloud Platform to Nurion Supercomputer
Today Rescale announced a strategic business agreement with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information to provide cloud services for KISTI’s Nurion...
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Penguin Computing to Deploy Magma Supercomputer with Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 Processors at LLNL
At SC19, Penguin Computing announced a powerful new supercomputer coming to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Called Magma, the system was procured through...
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Cray User Group extends HPE customers an invitation to CUG 2020
The Cray User Group has extended an invitation for HPE HPC & AI customers to participate in the upcoming CUG 2020 event in Auckland, New Zealand. The move signals...
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EuroHPC Sets Stage for Pre-Exascale LUMI Supercomputer at CSC in Finland
Today the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking signed today a Hosting Agreement for one of the three pre-exascale supercomputers at CSC's datacenter...
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Santos Dumont from Atos is now the Fastest Supercomputer in Latin America
Today Atos announced a major upgrade to the Santos Dumont supercomputer in Brazil, making it the most powerful supercomputer in Latin America. "With this expansion...
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WekaIO Takes Top Spot on IO500
The Weka File System (WekaFS) running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) set a record on the IO-500 benchmark with an overall number of 938.949—51% better performance...
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SDSC Conducts 50,000+ GPU Cloudburst Experiment with Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
In all, some 51,500 GPU processors were used during the approximately two-hour experiment conducted on November 16 and funded under a National Science Foundation...
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Podcast: Digital Trust in the Age of Deepfakes
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with Dave Maher, CTO of internet security company Intertrust, to share with us his deep knowledge of digital...
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BSC takes one of top spots in the IO500 10-Node Challenge
The Storage Systems for Extreme Computing team from BSC has taken the number 4 spot in the IO500’s ‘10- Node Challenge’ with GekkoFS. This ephemeral file system...
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Deploy AI Anywhere with ScaleMatrix DDC – No Data Center Required
At SC19, ScaleMatrix and its DDC subsidiary announced that it is collaborating with NVIDIA and Microway to deliver SKUs for an 8 petaFLOPS and a 13 petaFLOPS ‘Supercomputer...
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How Deep Learning is Driving New Science
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World looks at the development of deep learning and its impact on scientific applications. "In...
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Data-centric Programming Helps ETH Zurich Team Win Gordon Bell Prize
Today ACM named a six-member team from ETH Zurich recipients of the 2019 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their work on DaCe OMEN, a new framework for simulating the transport...
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CFD Leader NUMECA adopts Advania Data Centers for HPC-as-a-Service
Today Advania Data Centers (ADC) announced a strategic HPC service partnership with NUMECA International, a market leader in computational fluid dynamics CFD, multiphysics...
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Inspur steps up with Innovative Liquid Cooling Technology at SC19
Inspur is showcasing new HPC systems with Natural Circulation Evaporative Cooling technology this week at SC19. Inspur combines high-density computing servers with...
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