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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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HPC Software Stacks: Making High Performance Computing More Accessible
More than 200 researchers at the University of Pisa use high performance computing (HPC) systems in their quantum chemistry, nanophysics, genome sequencing, engineering...
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Video: Supercomputing Models Enable Detection of a Cosmic Cataclysm
In this podcast, Peter Nugent from Berkeley Lab explains how scientists confirmed the first-ever measurement of the merger of two neutron stars and its explosive...
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ISC 2018 Issues Call For Tutorials and Workshops
ISC 2018 has issued their Call for Tutorials and Workshops. The conference takes place June 24-28 in Frankfurt, Germany. "If you possess knowledge and skills in...
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Supercomputing Earthquakes in the Age of Exascale
Over at LLNL, Linda Vu writes that tomorrow's exascale supercomputers, will enable researchers to accurately simulate the ground motions of regional earthquakes...
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Intel FPGAs Power Acceleration-as-a-Service for Alibaba Cloud
Intel field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are now powering the Acceleration-as-a-Service of Alibaba Cloud. The acceleration service, which can be launched from...
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SciDAC funding to Move Quantum Chromodynamics forward at Jefferson Lab
As nuclear physicists delve ever deeper into the heart of matter, they require the tools to reveal the next layer of nature's secrets. Nowhere is that more true...
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Supercomputing Virus Structures at Nanoscale with XFEL
A team at Berkeley Lab are using innovative computational methods to enable new X-ray science. "The creation of XFEL facilities, including the Linac Coherent Light...
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How the POP Performance Optimization Centre at BSC is Speeding up HPC in Europe
In this video, Jesús Labarta from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center describes the POP (Performance Optimization and Productivity) Centre of Excellence led byHow...
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NERSC lends a hand to 2017 Tapia Conference on Diversity in Computing
The recent Tapia Conference on Diversity in Computing in Atlanta brought together some 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers and professionals...
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GPUs Power Near-global Climate Simulation at 1 km Resolution
A new peer-reviewed paper is reportedly causing a stir in the climatology community. "The best hope for reducing long-standing global climate model biases, is through...
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Spectra Logic Launches LTO-8 Pre-Purchase Program
"LTO-8 tape technology doubles the capacity of LTO-7 to an astonishing 30 TB compressed (12TB native) per cartridge, and improves performance by 20 percent, upSpectra...
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Intel Joins Open Neural Network Exchange
Jason Knight from Intel writes that the company has joined Microsoft, Facebook, and others to participate in the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) project. "By...
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Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip with Advanced Packaging to QuTech
Today, Intel announced the delivery of a 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing to QuTech, Intel’s quantum research partner in the Netherlands...
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NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs Power New TYAN Server
Today TYAN showcased their latest GPU-optimized platforms that target the high performance computing and artificial intelligence sectors at the GPU Technology Conference...
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OSS Showcases New HDCA Platforms with Volta GPUs at GTC Europe
At GTC Europe this week, One Stop Systems (OSS) will exhibit two of the most powerful GPU accelerators for data scientists and deep learning researchers, the CA16010...
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Google Compute Engine offers VMs with 96 Skylake CPUs and 624GB of Memory
Google Compute Engine now offers new VMs with the most Skylake vCPUs of any cloud provider. "Skylake in turn provides up to 20% faster compute performance, 82%Google...
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Accelerating Quantum Chemistry for Drug Discovery
In the pharmaceutical industry, drug discovery is a long and expensive process. This sponsored post from Nvidia explores how the University of Florida and University...
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Podcast: Intel Omni-Path adds Performance and Scalalability
"Intel OPA, part of Intel Scalable System Framework, is a high-performance fabric enabling the responsiveness, throughput, and scalability required by today's and...
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Future HPC Leaders Gather at Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
Over at ALCF, Andrea Manning writes that the recent Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing brought together HPC practitioners from around the world...
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