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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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Agenda Posted for MSST Mass Storage Conference in May
The Massive Storage Systems and Technology Conference (MSST) posted their preliminary speaker agenda. Keynote speakers include Margo Seltzer and Mark Kryder, along...
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Big Compute Podcast: Accelerating HPC Workflows with AI
In this Big Compute Podcast, Gabriel Broner from Rescale and Dave Turek from IBM discuss how AI enables the acceleration of HPC workflows. "HPC can benefit from...
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GRC Partners to Provide Worldwide Support and Server Warranties for Immersion Cooling
We've been hearing more and more about immersive cooling for HPC, but what happens to system warranties in these kinds of installations? Today GRC took a step to...
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Nor-Tech Powers LIGO and IceCube Nobel-Physics Prize-Winning Projects
Today HPC integrator Nor-Tech announced participation in two recent Nobel Physics Prize-Winning projects. The company's HPC gear will help power the Laser Interferometer...
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Data Management: The Elephant in the Room for HPC Hybrid Cloud
While there are many benefits to leveraging the cloud for HPC, there are challenges as well. Along with security and cost, data handling is consistently identified...
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Bo Ewald joins quantum computing firm ColdQuanta as CEO
Today quantum computing startup ColdQuanta announced the appointment of Robert “Bo” Ewald as president and chief executive officer. Ewald is well-known in highBo...
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Pioneers in Deep Learning to Receive ACM Turing Award
Today ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made...
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Ai comes to MATLAB and Simulink with new 2019a release
Today MathWorks introduced Release 2019a of MATLAB and Simulink. The release contains new products and important enhancements for artificial intelligence (AI),Ai...
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E-CAS Project to Explore Clouds for Acceleration of Science
Can the Cloud power ground-breaking research? A new NSF-funded research project aims to provide a deeper understanding of the use of cloud computing in accelerating...
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D-Wave Leap Quantum Cloud Service comes to Europe and Japan
Today D-Wave Systems announced the geographic expansion of its Leap quantum cloud service to 33 countries in Europe and Asia. According to the company, Leap isD...
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Perth’s GPU Hackathon looks to speed research computing
The second annual GPU Hackathon kicked off in Perth this week, a collaboration between Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NVIDIA and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre...
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Podcast: Multicore Scaling Slow Down, and Fooling AI
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team has an animated discussion about multicore scaling, how easy it seems to be to mislead AI systems, and some good sizedPodcast...
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CPU, GPU, FGPA, or DSP: Heterogeneous Computing Multiplies the Processing Power
Whether your code will run on industry-standard PCs or is embedded in devices for specific uses, chances are there’s more than one processor that you can utilize...
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ExaLearn Project to bring Machine Learning to Exascale
As supercomputers become ever more capable in their march toward exascale levels of performance, scientists can run increasingly detailed and accurate simulations...
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IonQ posts benchmarks for quantum computer
Today quantum computing startup IonQ released the results of two rigorous real-world tests that show that its quantum computer can solve significantly more complex...
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Video: Cray Announces First Exascale System
In this video, Cray CEO Pete Ungaro announces Aurora – Argonne National Laboratory’s forthcoming supercomputer and the United States’ first exascale system. Ungaro...
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NERSC taps NVIDIA compiler team for Perlmutter Supercomputer
NERSC has signed a contract with NVIDIA to enhance GPU compiler capabilities for Berkeley Lab’s next-generation Perlmutter supercomputer. "We are excited to work...
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ISC 2019 Keynote to focus on Algorithms of Life
Today the ISC 2019 conference announced that their keynote will be delivered by Professor Ivo Sbalzarini, who will speak to an audience of 3500 attendees aboutISC...
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TACC to power HSM Archives with Quantum Corp Tape Libraries
Today Quantum Corp. announced the Texas Advanced Computing Center has selected Quantum StorNext as their archive file system, with a Quantum Scalar i6000 tape library...
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