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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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Michael Zentner to Lead SDSC Sustainable Scientific Software Group
Today the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced the appointment of Michael Zentner as director of Sustainable Scientific Software, effective immediately...
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Atos to Deploy Most Powerful Supercomputer in Norway
Today Atos announced a 4-year contract to deliver a BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer to Uninett Sigma2, the national e-infrastructure provider in Norway. As the...
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Pricing American Options with the NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Vector Engine
The Aldwin division of ANEO is now working together with NEC to leverage the leading-edge vector technology of SX-Aurora TSUBASA for porting and optimizing Aldwin...
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The Convergence of HPC & AI: Why it’s Great for Supercomputing and the Enterprise
By the end of 2019, worldwide AI spend is expected to reach $35 billion and more than double by 2022, according to IDC. While AI market projections may be speculative...
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ORNL to lead INFUSE Network for Fusion Energy Program
The Department of Energy has established the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program, or INFUSE, to encourage private-public research partnerships for overcoming...
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Video: Supercomputing Dynamic Earthquake Ruptures
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to model multi-fault earthquakes in the Brawley fault zone, which links the San Andreas and Imperial faults in Southern...
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Microway Deploys NVIDIA DGX-2 Supercomputer at Clemson University
Today Microway announced the company has shipped a NVIDIA DGX-2 supercomputer to Clemson University. "The NVIDIA DGX-2 delivers industry-leading 2 petaFLOPS ofMicroway...
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Appentra Releases Parallelware Trainer 1.2
Appentra is pleased to announce the release of Parallelware Trainer 1.2, further improving the provision of accessible HPC and parallel programming training using...
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EPI delivers first design for high-performance processor
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has delivered its first architectural design to the European Commission and is welcoming new partners. "Energy efficient...
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Welcome to ISC High Performance 2019
In this special guest feature, Martin Meuer and Thomas Meuer set the stage for the ISC High Performance conference, which takes place June 16-20 in Frankfurt. "The...
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Joliot-Curie Supercomputer from Atos Powers Research at GENCI
GENCI in France has inaugurated their new Joliot-Curie supercomputer. Based on the Atos BullSequana architecture, the system is rated at 9.4 petaflops of peak performance...
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Radio Free HPC Ponders Amdahl’s Law, GPUs, and the ASC19 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results of the ASC19 Student Cluster Competition and HPC workshop in China. "For the first time, a non-mainland...
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AMD Verifies Vega20 GPU in Record Time on Azure
AMD engineers executed a physical verification pass of the Radeon Instinct Vega20 – its largest 7nm chip design – in ~10 hours on Microsoft Azure. The job usedAMD...
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Exascale for Everyone
The exascale hype has been gaining a lot of steam in the press lately, and for good reason. Ever since the petascale barrier was broken in 2008, technology users...
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Podcast: Achieving Low Latency with the SPDK Storage Performance Development Kit
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dr. Felipe Franciosi from Nutanix and Nate Marushak from Intel describe how the open source reference library called SPDK (Storage...
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Apply Now for the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon
NCSA is now accepting team applications for the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon. The event will take place September 9-13, 2019 at NCSA. "The Hackathon...
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Podcast: Irene Qualters from LANL Shares Life Lessons on HPC and Diversity
In this Big Compute Podcast episode Gabriel Broner interviews Irene Qualters about her career and the evolution of HPC. "Some of the most profound advances that...
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Supercomputing Takes on the Opioid Crisis
In this special guest feature from the SC19 Blog, Dan Jacobson and Wayne Joubert from ORNL describes how the Summit supercomputer is helping untangle how genetic...
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Tachyum Boots Linux on Universal Processor Chip
Today Tachyum announced it has successfully deployed the Linux OS on its Prodigy Universal Processor architecture, a foundation for 64-core, ultra-low power, high...
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