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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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Freshly Funded Optalysys Optical Processing to Speed Genomics
Optalysys, a start-up pioneering the development of light-speed optical coprocessors, today announced the company raised 3.95 million U.S. dollars from angel investors...
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Preferred Networks in Japan Deploys 4.7 Petaflop Supercomputer for Deep Learning
Today Preferred Networks announced the launch of a private supercomputer designed to facilitate research and development of deep learning, including autonomousPreferred...
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Exascale Computing Project Names Doug Kothe as Director
The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Doug Kothe as its new director effective October 1. "Doug’s credentials in this area and familiarity...
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GPUs Accelerate Population Distribution Mapping Around the Globe
With the Earth’s population at 7 billion and growing, understanding population distribution is essential to meeting societal needs for infrastructure, resources...
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Northrop Grumman to Acquire Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion
Today Northrop Grumman Corporation announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Orbital ATK for approximately $7.8 billion in cash, plus the...
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The AI Revolution: Unleashing Broad and Deep Innovation
For the AI revolution to move into the mainstream, cost and complexity must be reduced, so smaller organizations can afford to develop, train and deploy powerful...
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20 Future HPC Leaders Receive DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Today the Krell Institute announced that new class of 20 future HPC leaders enrolled at U.S. universities this fall with support from the Department of Energy Computational...
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Mapping the Brain with the Theta Supercomputer
Researchers are using the Theta supercomputer at Argonne to map the intricate layout of brain neurons. "The basic goal is simple — would like to be able to image...
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Kubernetes Meets HPC
"While the notion of packaging a workload into a Docker container, publishing it to a registry, and submitting a YAML description of the workload is second nature...
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New PGI 17.7 Release Supports NVIDIA Volta GPUs
Today NVIDIA released Version 17.7 of PGI 2017 Compilers and Tools, delivering improved performance and programming simplicity to HPC developers who target multicore...
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IBM Simulates Chemistry with Quantum Computing
IBM scientists have developed a new approach to simulate molecules on a quantum computer that may one day help revolutionize chemistry and materials science. “Over...
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CPC Enhances Non-spill Quick Disconnects for Liquid Cooled HPC
As liquid cooling becomes more and more pervasive in HPC datacenters, the mitigation of leaks and spills is a growing concern. Enter CPC, a maker of quick disconnects...
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Entering the Era of Simulation Driven Design
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World reports from the European Altair Technology Conference and finds that simulation-driven...
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Cavium Joins the OpenMP Effort for ThunderX2 Processor
Today the OpenMP ARB organization announced that Cavium has joined as a new member. "Cavium’s membership in the OpenMP ARB further highlights our strong beliefCavium...
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CCIX Project to link ARM Processors to FPGAs for HPC
Today ARM, Xilinx, Cadence, and Taiwan Semiconductor announced plans to produce the first test chip for the Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX)CCIX...
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Seeking Teams for the 2018 Student Cluster Competition at ISC in Frankfurt
The HPC Advisory Council has officially kicked off the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) with an open call for team entries in the 2018 competition. "The...
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Solving AI Hardware Challenges
For many deep learning startups out there, buying AI hardware and a large quantity of powerful GPUs is not feasible. So many of these startup companies are turning...
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MIT Paper Sheds Light on How Neural Networks Think
MIT researchers have developed a new general-purpose technique sheds light on inner workings of neural nets trained to process language. "During training, a neural...
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Podcast: HPE Sends a Supercomputer into Orbit
In this TechNative Podcast, Mark Fernandez from HPE describes the company’s collaboration to send a supercomputer into orbit. "“By NASA’s rules, not just any computer...
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