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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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LTO-8 Type M Tape Boosts Storage Capacity from Spectra Logic
Spectra Logic announced today that Spectra Certified LTO-8 Type M media along with LTO-8 drives and all supported media are now available for order. An industry...
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Purdue Develops Intrachip Micro-cooling for HPC
“I think for the first time we have shown a proof of concept for embedded cooling for Department of Defense and potential commercial applications,” Garimella said...
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Exascale to Enable Smart Cities
Over at Argonne, Charlie Catlett writes that the advent of Exascale computing will enable Smart Cities designed to improve the quality of life for urban dwellers...
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Video: What IBM’s 5 Nanometer Transistors Mean for You
In this video, Nicolas Loubet from IBM Research describes how IBM's new 5 nanometer transistors will provide huge power savings that could enable mobile devices...
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Banshee Makes DRAM Cache 33 to 50 percent more efficient
Researchers from MIT, Intel, and ETH Zurich have developed a new cache-management scheme that improves the data rate of in-package DRAM caches by 33 to 50 percent...
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Register Now For the Intel HPC Developer Conference 2017
Powerful technologies today fuel tomorrow’s HPC and High-Performance Data Analytics innovations and help organizations accelerate toward discoveries. Get aheadRegister...
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Single Node “Cyclops” Supercomputer Looks to Set Records
Today the Radio Free HPC podcast team announced announced plans to build what they hope will be the “fastest single-node supercomputer in the world" for the High...
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Supercomputing Human Brain Memory Molecules with the Piz Daint Supercomputer
Scientists at the University of Basel are using the Piz Daint supercomputer at CSCS to discover interrelationships in the human genome that might simplify the search...
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Comet Supercomputer Assists in Latest LIGO Discovery
This week’s landmark discovery of gravitational and light waves generated by the collision of two neutron stars eons ago was made possible by a signal verification...
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MareNostrum Supercomputer to contribute 475 million core hours to European Research
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre announced plans to allocate 475 million core hours of its supercomputer MareNostrum to 17 research projects as part of...
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How Manufacturing will Leap Forward with Exascale Computing
In this special guest feature, Jeremy Thomas from Lawrence Livermore National Lab writes that exascale computing will be a vital boost to the U.S. manufacturing...
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1000x Faster Deep-Learning at Petascale Using Intel Xeon Phi Processors
A cumulative effort over several years to scale the training of deep-learning neural networks has resulted in the first demonstration of petascale deep-learning...
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Intel to Ship Neural Network Processor by end of year
Intel's Naveen Rao writes that Intel will soon be shipping the world’s first family of processors designed from the ground up for artificial intelligence. As announced...
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ESnet’s Science DMZ Could Help Transfer and Protect Medical Research Data
The Science DMZ architecture developed for moving large data sets quick and securely could be adapted to meet the needs of the medical research community. "Like...
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Call for Contributions: PEARC18 in Pittsburgh
The PEARC18 Conference has issued its Call for Contributions. The conference takes place June 22-27 in Pittsburgh. "The Practice & Experience in Advanced Research...
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Jesús Labarta from BSC to receive Ken Kennedy Award
Today ACM and IEEE Computer Society named Jesús Labarta of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as the recipient of the 2017 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. Labarta...
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OpenSFS Announces Maintenance Release 2.10.1 for Lustre
OpenSFS today announced the first Long Term Support (LTS) maintenance release of Lustre 2.10.1. "This latest advance, in effect, fulfills a commitment made by Intel...
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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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