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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 Paper: Survey of FPGAs for Convolutional Neural Networks
Sparsh Mittal has just published a new paper on the use of FPGAs for Convolutional Neural Networks. "Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently shown...
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SC18 Preview: “A Quantum Future of Computation” by Microsoft’s Matthias Troyer
SC18 is continuing its series of session previews this week with a look at an Invited Talk on Quantum Computing by Matthias Troyer from Microsoft Research. "Attempting...
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Argonne is Supercomputing Big Data from the Large Hadron Collider
Over at Argonne, Madeleine O’Keefe writes that the Lab is supporting CERN researchers working to interpret Big Data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world...
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HPC Server Market Jumps 27.6% in 2Q 2018
Hyperion Research reports that worldwide factory revenue for the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market jumped 27.6% to $3.7 billion in the second...
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Innovation Unbound: What Would You do with a Million Cores?
In this sponsored post from Ian Colle, General Manager-AWS Batch and HPC, for Amazon Web Services, he explores how we are always looking for resources to "do everything...
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Maximum Performance, Minimum Effort: Intel® Performance Libraries
"Over two decades, Intel continued its efforts to refine libraries optimized to coax the greatest performance from Intel® processors. In this video, Noah Clemons...
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Intel Beefs up FPGA Line
Today Intel introduced the Intel Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) with Intel Stratix 10 SX FPGA. The card leverages the Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon CPU...
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Rescale Partners Program to Deliver Big Compute to Enterprise Customers
Last week, Rescale announced the launch of its Powered by Rescale program with IBM as its first partner. "With the Powered by Rescale program, partners can deliver...
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Mellanox InfiniBand to Power Eagle Supercomputer coming to NREL
Today Mellanox announced that InfiniBand has been chosen to accelerate the new Eagle supercomputer at NREL. The pending 8 Petaflop system will consist of more than...
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Microsoft Previews Avere vFXT for Azure
Over at the Microsoft Blog, Rebecca Thompson writes that Avere vFXT software for Azure delivers new possibilities for running HPC workloads in the cloud. "WithMicrosoft...
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Supermicro Ai Supercomputer Sports 20 NVIDIA Tesla T4 Accelerators in 4U
Supermicro's new SuperServer 6049GP-TRT provides the superior performance required to accelerate the diverse applications of modern AI. "We see the combination...
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Cray XC50 Supercomputer coming to Institute for Basic Science in South Korea
Today Cray announced that the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has awarded the Company a contract valued at $9 million for a Cray XC50 supercomputer and Cray ClusterStor...
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Can we use Machine Learning to Learn about Machines?
In this special guest feature, Ellexus CEO Rosemary Francis writes that the convergence of HPC and Ai is already changing the landscape in the world of supercomputing...
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Imagine HPC with the Power of the Cloud
Running HPC in the cloud enables organizations to select and deploy an optimal set of services for their unique applications, and to pay only for what they use....
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Cray Supercomputer Powers Japan’s Railway Technical Research Institute
Today Cray announced that it has delivered and installed a Cray XC50 supercomputer and a ClusterStor L300 storage system at Railway Technical Research Institute...
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Versity Open Sources Next Generation Archiving Filesystem
Today Versity Software announced that it has open sourced ScoutFS, a new scale out archiving filesystem. "ScoutFS is the first GPL archiving file system ever released...
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Survey Foretells Explosive Growth in Machine Learning Projects Over Next Two Years
Over at the Univa Blog, Gary Tyreman writes that the company sponsored an industry-wide survey to better understand what key challenges our HPC users are currently...
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5 of 6 Gordon Bell Finalists use NVIDIA Volta Tensor Core GPUs
Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Geetika Gupta writes that the company's powerful GPUs are being used by five of the six Gordon Bell Prize finalists. Just announced by5...
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Supermicro HGX-2 Cloud Server to Sport 2 Petaflops of Ai Horsepower
Today Supermicro announced that the company’s upcoming NVIDIA HGX-2 cloud server platform will be the world’s most powerful system for artificial intelligence and...
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