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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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ArrayFire Releases v3.6 Parallel Libraries
Today ArrayFire announced the release of ArrayFire v3.6, the company's open source library of parallel computing functions supporting CUDA, OpenCL, and CPU devices...
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Let’s Talk Exascale: Transforming Combustion Science and Technology
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, Jackie Chen from Sandia National Laboratories describes the Combustion-Pele project, which uses predictive simulation for...
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Intel FPGAs Power Realtime AI in the Azure cloud
At the Microsoft Build conference held this week, Microsoft announced Azure Machine Learning Hardware Accelerated Models powered by Project Brainwave integrated...
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Viking Technology Introduces NVMe Persistent Memory Drives
Today Viking Technology announced its new VT-PM8 and VT-PM16 persistent memory drives that deliver performance and unlimited write endurance similar to that ofViking...
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Gauss Centre in Germany Allocates 1 Billion Computing Core Hours for Science
"With the 19th Call for Large-Scale Projects, the GCS steering committee granted a total of more than 1 billion core hours to 17 ambitious research projects. The...
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MareNostrum provides 470 million core hours to European scientists
The PRACE initiative continues to sponsor ground-breaking research in Europe. "In the 16th PRACE Call for Project Access, Spain has allocated 470 million core hours...
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D-Wave Launches Quadrant Business Unit for Machine Learning
Today D-Wave Systems launch its new Quadrant business unit, formed to provide machine learning services that make state-of-the-art deep learning accessible to companies...
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Univa Navops Launch powers Cloudbursting for Mellanox Hybrid Cloud
Today Univa announced that Mellanox has selected Univa’s Navops Launch to extend its on-premise EDA cluster to the cloud, providing Mellanox with cost-effective...
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ClusterVision to build Scandinavia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
Today Sweden's National Supercomputing Centre (NSC) at Linköping University announced it has awarded ClusterVision a contract to build its new flagship cluster,...
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Lustre 2.11.0 Released
Today OpenSFS announced the release of Lustre 2.11.0, the fastest and most scalable parallel file system. OpenSFS, founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development...
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New AI Performance Milestones with NVIDIA Volta GPU Tensor Cores
Over at the NVIDIA blog, Loyd Case shares some recent advancements that deliver dramatic performance gains on GPUs to the AI community. "We have achieved record...
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Cavium ThunderX2 Processor goes GA for HPC and Beyond
Today Cavium announced the General Availability of ThunderX2, Cavium's second generation of Armv8-A SoC processors. "Integrating ThunderX2 into the HPE Apollo 70...
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Video: Benchmarking as the Answer to HPC Performance and Architecture Questions
"This presentation offers an impartial look at benchmarking of HPC systems by Andrew Jones (@hpcnotes), NAG VP Strategic HPC Consulting & Services. This is described...
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DNN Implementation, Optimization, and Challenges
This is the third in a five-part series that explores the potential of unified deep learning with CPU, GPU and FGPA technologies. This post explores DNN implementation...
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Supercomputing How Cancer Spreads through Superdiffusion
Over a the University of Texas at Austin, Marc Airhart writes that researchers are using TACC supercomputers to better understand the physics behind the spreadSupercomputing...
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Quobyte Joins STAC Benchmark Council to help Financial Services Solve Storage Challenges
Today hyperscale storage provider Quobyte announced that it has accepted an invitation to join the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Benchmark Council...
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BSC to host the RISC-V Workshop on the Road to European Processor Initiative
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center will host the RISC-V Workshop next week, a gathering the open source processor design community to share RISC-V updates, projects...
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Fast.ai Trains Neural Net in Record Time with Super Convergence
Over at the Fast.AI Blog, Jeremy Howard writes that his Startup has achieved an amazing deep learning benchmark milestone – the ability to do an ImageNet training...
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HLRS and Wuhan to Collaborate on Exascale Computing
The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and Supercomputing Center of Wuhan University have announced plans to cooperate on technology and training...
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