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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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Common Myths Stalling Organizations From Cloud Adoption
Cloud adoption is accelerating at the blink of an eye, easing the burden of managing data-rich workloads for enterprises big and small. Yet, common myths and misconceptions...
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Cray Assimilates ClusterStor from Seagate
Today Cray announced it has completed the previously announced transaction and strategic partnership with Seagate centered around the addition of the ClusterStor...
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Kevin Barker to Lead CENATE Proving Ground for HPC Technologies
The CENATE Proving Ground for HPC Technologies at PNNL has named Kevin Barker as their new Director. "The goal of CENATE is to evaluate innovative and transformational...
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IDEAS Program Fostering Better Software Development for Exascale
Scalability of scientific applications is a major focus of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and in that vein, a project known as IDEAS...
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Nimbix Launches High Speed Cloud Storage for AI and Deep Learning
Today Nimbix announced the immediate availability of a new high-performance storage platform in the Nimbix Cloud specifically designed for the demands of artificial...
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Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell to Present at SC17
Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell will share insights and inspiration at SC17 in Denver. "We are honored to have the legendary Gordon Bell speak at SC17," said Conference...
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LANL Steps Up to HPC for Materials Program
"Understanding and predicting material performance under extreme environments is a foundational capability at Los Alamos,” said David Teter, Materials Science and...
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SC17 Session Preview: Dr. Pradeep Dubey on AI & The Virtuous Cycle of Compute
Deep Learning was recently scaled to obtain 15PF performance on the Cori supercomputer at NERSC. Cori Phase II features over 9600 KNL processors. It can significantly...
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Supercomputing Jet Noise for a Quieter World
Researchers at the University of Minnesota are using Argonne supercomputers to to look for new ways to reduce the noise produced by jet engines. Among the loudest...
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Video: Will HPC Move to the Cloud?
Gabriel Broner from Rescale gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "HPC has transitioned from unique and proprietary designs, to clusters of many dual-CPU IntelVideo...
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Hiring? Sign up for the SC17 Student/Post Doc Job Fair
Is your organization looking to hire HPC talent? Be sure to book a table at the SC17 Student/Post Doc Job Fair. "This face-to-face event will be held from 10 a.m...
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Intel awards Paderborn University a Hybrid Cluster with Arria 10 FPGAs
The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC²) has been selected by Intel to host a computer cluster that uses Intel’s Xeon processor with its Arria 10 FPGAIntel...
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KISTI in South Korea orders up a Cray CS500 Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) has awarded the Company a contract valued at more than $48 million for aKISTI...
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NVIDIA P100 GPUs come to Google Cloud Platform
Today the good folks at the Google Compute Platform announced the availability of NVIDIA GPUs in the Cloud for multiple geographies. Cloud GPUs can accelerate workloads...
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GigaSpaces Simplifies Artificial Intelligence Development with Intel BigDL
"BigDL’s efficient large-scale distributed deep learning framework, built on Apache Spark, expands the accessibility of deep learning to a broader range of bigGigaSpaces...
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New HPC for Materials Program to Help American Industry
Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a new high-performance computing initiative that will help U.S. industry accelerate the development...
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Yokohama City University Installs Cray XC50-AC Supercomputer for Life Sciences
Today Cray announced that the Yokohama City University in Japan has put a Cray XC50-AC supercomputer into production. Located in the University’s Advanced Medical...
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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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