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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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Video: Intel to Bring AI Technology to future Olympic Games
Today Intel announced a partnership with the International Olympic Committee to use the company's leading technology to enhance the Olympic Games through 2024.Video...
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Fujitsu to build 4 Petaflop Supercomputer for Hokkaido University
Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order from the Information Initiative Center of Hokkaido University for an interdisciplinary, large-scale computing...
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Supercomputer Simulations help fight Dengue Virus
Researchers are using supercomputers to combat the Dengue virus and related diseases spread by mosquitos. "Advanced software and the rapid calculation speeds of...
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Mark Stickells appointed Director of Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announced the appointment of Mark Stickells as the new Director of the Centre. "Mark’s experience with government, industry...
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Podcast: Terri Quinn on Hardware and Integration at the Exacale Computing Project
In this podcast, Terri Quinn from LLNL provides an update on Hardware and Integration (HI) at the Exascale Computing Project. "The US Department of Energy (DOE)...
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Prof. Yutong Lu from China will Chair ISC 2019
Today ISC announced that Prof. Yutong Lu from the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, China will be the ISC 2019 Program Chair. This new appointment begins...
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NVIDIA Releases Cuda 9.2 for GPU Code Acceleration
Today NVIDIA released Cuda 9.2, which includes updates to libraries, a new library for accelerating custom linear-algebra algorithms, and lower kernel launch latency...
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Mentorship fosters a Career in STEM
In this special guest feature, Faith Singer-Villalobos from TACC continues her series profiling Careers in STEM. It's the inspiring story of Je'aime Powell, a TACC...
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Altair and Cray Extend HPC Collaboration
Today Altair announced a 3-year extension to its OEM agreement with Cray Inc. Under the terms of this agreement, PBS Professional will remain bundled as the preferred...
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Micron Now Shipping Quad-Level Cell NAND SSDs
"Today Micron Technology announced the company is shipping the industry’s first SSD built on revolutionary quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology. The Micron 5210...
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Call for Submissions: IO500 List
The Virtual Institute for IO is now accepting submissions for the upcoming IO500 list, which will be revealed at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The IO500 benchmark...
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Call for Applications: NCSA GPU Hackathon in September
NCSA is now accepting team applications for the Blue Waters GPU Hackathon. This event will take place September 10-14, 2018 in Illinois. "General-purpose Graphics...
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Unified Deep Learning Configurations and Emerging Applications
This is the final post in a five-part series from a report exploring the potential machine and a variety of computational approaches, including CPU, GPU and FGPA...
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Japan Meteorological Agency to deploy Two Cray XC50 Supercomputers
Today Cray announced that the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is implementing two Cray XC50 supercomputers at its site in Kiyose, Tokyo. These systems are expected...
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AWS Announces EC2 Bare Metal instances and C5D instances with local SSD Storage
HPC in the Cloud got a boost this week with this announcement of two updates to the Amazon EC2 instance family. EC2 Bare Metal instances provide customers’ applications...
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Video: Doug Kothe Looks Ahead at The Exascale Computing Project
In this video, Doug Kothe from ORNl provides an update on the Exascale Computing Project. "With respect to progress, marrying high-risk exploratory and high-return...
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Altair acquires FluiDyna CFD Technology for GPUs
Altair has acquired Germany-based FluiDyna GmbH, a renowned developer of NVIDIA CUDA and GPU-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and numerical simulation technologies...
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Podcast: Supercomputing the Emergence of Material Behavior
In this TACC Podcast, Chemists at the University of California, San Diego describe how they used supercomputing to design a sheet of proteins that toggle between...
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New Tachyum Prodigy Chip has “More than 10x the Performance of Conventional Processors”
Today Silicon Valley startup Tachyum Inc. unveiled its new processor family – codenamed “Prodigy” – that combines the advantages of CPUs with GP-GPUs, and specialized...
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