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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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Cloud and Enterprise Adopting HPC-proven CPU-based Interactive, Photorealistic Rendering
The TACC Frontera supercomputer, which will become the fastest academic supercomputer in the United States when it becomes operational in 2019, will rely on CPUs...
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Sylabs Tunes Singularity 3.0 Containers for Machine Learning
Today Sylabs announced that it has released a new version of its innovative container software: Singularity 3.0. With new enterprise-class features, Singularity...
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Data Science Program at Argonne Looks to Machine Learning for New Breakthroughs
Over at Argonne, Nils Heinonen writes that four new projects for the ALCF Data Science Program that will utilize machine learning, deep learning, and other artificial...
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Summit Supercomputer Breaks Exaop Barrier on Neural Net Trained to Recognize Extreme Weather Patterns
A team of computational scientists from LBNL, ORNL, and engineers from NVIDIA has demonstrated an exascale-class deep learning application that has broken the exaop...
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OARnet in Ohio to Help Researchers Accelerate Big Data Sharing
OARnet recently joined several other regional and federal network organizations on a three-year, $3.5 million grant to help scientists more efficiently work with...
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Why SC18 is a Key Event for Tackling our Planet’s Toughest Challenges
In this special guest feature, SC18 Conference Chair Ralph A. McEldowney writes that HPC is now more crucial than ever to empower science for the benefit of humanity...
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Video: D‑Wave Rolls Out Leap, A Quantum Application Development Environment
Today D-Wave Systems announced the immediate availability of free, real-time access to the D‑Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment. Leap is the first cloud-based...
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Big Data over Big Distance: Zettar Moves a Petabyte over 5000 Miles in 29 Hours
Today AIC announced a world-record in data transfer: one petabyte in 29 hours encrypted data transfer, with data integrity checksum unconditionally enabled, over...
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Using Ai to Automatically Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers from Stanford University have developed a deep learning based system that can automatically detect Alzheimer’s disease and its biomarkers from MRIs,...
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Call for Submissions: ISC 2019 Tutorials and Workshops
ISC 2019 has issued their Call for Submissions for tutorials and workshop proposals. If you have expertise in a particular area of high performance computing and...
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HPC4Materials Program Funds Nine Projects to Fight Hot Corrosion Degradation
The Department of Energy today announced the first round of awardees for the new HPC4Materials (HPC4Mtls) Program. "We are excited about adding a materials portfolio...
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Xilinx Steps Up with Alvea FPGA boards and Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform
Today FPGA maker Xilinx unveiled Versal, "the industry's first adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP)". The company also announced new Alveo FPGA cards,Xilinx...
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GPU-powered SQream DB Boosts Query Performance up to 150% for IBM POWER9
Today SQream announced that its GPU-powered SQream DB software now includes optimized support for the IBM POWER9 multi-core architecture. The powerful trinity of...
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Lenovo ThinkAgile System Certified for SAP HANA on Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Today Lenovo announced that it is one of the first server vendors certified for SAP HANA for hyperconverged infrastructure. "With Lenovo’s ThinkAgile HX7820 four...
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STULZ and Cloud&Heat team up with Watercooled Micro Data Center
Today STULZ announced a new strategic partnership with Cloud&Heat Technologies, a specialist in energy-efficient, scalable and reliable data centers. As part of...
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300K-Core SuperMUC-NG System Launches at LRZ in Germany
LRZ in Germany dedicated their new SuperMUC-NG (“next generation”) supercomputer last week in Munich. Built by Lenovo, the massive system uses innovative hot-water...
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SC18 Exhibits Selling Out
Today SC18 announced record exhibit sales for the conference, which takes place Nov. 11-16 in Dallas. "We are thrilled that so many new companies will be exhibiting...
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ISC 2019 Seeking Research Paper Submissions
Submissions are now open for ISC 2019 Research Paper Sessions. These sessions aim to provide first-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia,...
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Democratizing High Performance Computing: HPC Clusters — When you Need Them, How You Need Them and Where You Need Them
This sponsored post from Amazon Web Services’ Bala Thekkedath unpacks how deploying HPC clusters in the cloud gives you the freedom to get started when you want...
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