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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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18 Petaflop Stampede2 Supercomputer Dedicated Today at TACC
Stampede2 is the newest strategic supercomputing resource for the nation's research and education community, enabling scientists and engineers across the U.S.,18...
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RCE Podcast Looks at NetCDF Network Common Data Format
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with the authors of NetCDF. NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent...
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Velocity Micro Accelerates HPC Desktops
Today Velocity Micro rolled out a suite of new workstation offerings designed for CAD design, 3D rendering, multimedia creation, and scientific calculation. Headlining...
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Nick Nystrom Named Interim Director of PSC
Nick Nystrom has been appointed Interim Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Nystrom succeeds Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies, who have been co-directors...
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CERN openlab Joins Intel Modern Code Developer Challenge
James Reinders writes that a new Intel Modern Code Developer Challenge has teamed up with CERN openlab. "It is always an exciting time when I get to announce aCERN...
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LANL’s Herbert Van de Sompel to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award
"For the last two decades Herbert, working with a range of collaborators, has made a sustained series of key contributions that have helped shape the current networked...
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Cryo-EM Moves Forward with $9.3M NIH Award
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $9.3 million to the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to support ongoing...
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Using HPC to Track Massive Ice Shelves
Mellanox Technologies' Vice President of Marketing, Gilad Shainer, discusses the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Mellanox’s high performance computing work that...
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ORNL Taps D-Wave for Exascale Computing Project
Today Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) announced they’re bringing on D-Wave to use quantum computing as an accelerator for the Exascale Computing Project. "Advancing...
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Podcast: A Retrospective on Great Science and the Stampede Supercomputer
TACC will soon deploy Phase 2 of the Stampede II supercomputer. In this podcast, they celebrate by looking back on some of the great science computed on the original...
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Supercomputers turn the clock back on Storms with “Hindcasting”
Researchers are using supercomputers at LBNL to determine how global climate change has affected the severity of storms and resultant flooding. "The group usedSupercomputers...
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Intel’s Xeon Scalable Processors Provide Cooling Challenges for HPC
Unless you reduce node and rack density, the wattages of today's high-poweredCPUs and GPUs are simply no longer addressable with air cooling alone. Asetek explores...
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LANL Adds Capacity to Trinity Supercomputer for Stockpile Stewardship
Los Alamos National Laboratory has boosted the computational capacity of their Trinity supercomputer with a merger of two system partitions. “With this merge completed...
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Survey: Training and Support #1 Concern for the HPC Community
Initial results of the Scientific Computing World (SCW) HPC readership survey have shown training and support for HPC resources are the number one concern for both...
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Red Hat Ceph Storage Powers Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Today Red Hat announced that the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is using Red Hat Ceph Storage to support the growing needs of its research community....
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Supercomputing the Signature of Chaos in Ultracold Reactions
Researchers have performed the first ever quantum-mechanical simulation of the benchmark ultracold chemical reaction between potassium-rubidium (KRb) and a potassium...
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Brazil-Based AMT to Resell Bright Computing Software
Today Bright Computing announced a reseller agreement with AMT. "We are very impressed with Bright’s technology and we believe it will make a huge difference to...
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ANSYS Scales to 200K Cores on Shahin II Supercomputer
Today ANSYS, Saudi Aramco, and KAUST announced a new supercomputing milestone by scaling ANSYS Fluent to nearly 200,000 processor cores – enabling organizations...
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BSC Comparing Algorithms that Search for Cancer Mutations
Eduard Porta-Pardo from BSC has undertaken the first ever comparative analysis of sub-gene algorithms that mine the genetic information in cancer databases. These...
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