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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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Seagate Self-Encrypting Drives now available through Carahsoft
Today Seagate Government Solutions announced that Carahsoft has become an approved distributer of the company's Secure Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs). Designed to...
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Vendor Panel: The Changing Landscape of HPC
In this video from the PBS Works User Group 2017, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC moderates a vendor panel on The Changing Landscape of HPC. "When it comes down to...
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Intel Omni-Path Architecture: A Focus on Application Performance
The Intel Omni-Path Architecture is the next-generation fabric for high-performance computing. In this feature, we will explore what makes a great HPC fabric and...
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Thomas Zacharia named director of Oak Ridge National Lab
Today UT-Battelle announced that Thomas Zacharia, who helped build Oak Ridge National Laboratory into a global supercomputing power, has been selected as the laboratory...
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Jack Dongarra on ECP-funded Software Projects for Exascale
In this special guest post, Professor Jack Dongarra sits down with Mike Bernhardt from ECP to discuss the role of Dongarra’s team as they tackle several ECP-funded...
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NCSA Blue Waters Report Shows Economic Benefits of HPC
The importance of supercomputing on local and national economic prosperity has been highlighted by a recent study which reported that its Blue Waters project to...
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Horst Simon to be Program Chair for ISC 2018
ISC 2017 may be just around the corner, but the conference team is already busy planning the show for next year. Today they announced that Prof Horst Simon will...
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HPC as a Service for High Performance Video Rendering
In the past 5 years, GPUs have gotten even more powerful so rendering tasks can be completed even faster than before. Katie (Garrison) Rivera, of One Stop Systems...
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Supercomputing More Efficient Paper Production with HPC4MFG
Industry is collaborating with researchers at LBNL to significantly reduce paper production costs and increase energy efficiencies. The project is one of the seedlings...
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Ohio Supercomputer Center to Boost STEM Education at annual Summer Institute
Twenty Ohio high school students were selected to attend the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s 28th annual Summer Institute, June 4-16 at Ohio State University. These...
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Increase in Wattage Trends Make Versatile Liquid Cooling the New Norm
Wattages are rising so high that to cool the nodes containing the highest performance chips used in HPC leaves one with little choice other than liquid coolingIncrease...
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RCE Podcast Looks at Reproducibility of Scientific Results
"In recent years there has been increasing concern about the reproducibility of scientific results. Because scientific research represents a major public investment...
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CyVerse’s Atmosphere Platform comes to Massachusetts Open Cloud
Recently, the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) adopted Atmosphere as a means of making it easier for academics to access cloud resources. MOC is a public computational...
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iRODS User Group Meeting to Preview New Capabilities
The worldwide iRODS community will gather June 13 – 15 for their first User Group Meeting to be held at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. Along with use cases...
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OpenMP ARB Appoints Duncan Poole and Kathryn O’Brien to its Board
Today the OpenMP ARB announced the appointment of Duncan Poole and Kathryn O’Brien to its Board of Directors. As industry veterans, they bring a wealth of experience...
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How DDN Technology Speeds Machine Learning at Scale
Today DDN announced that large commercial machine learning programs in manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, medical research and natural-language processing...
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RoCE Initiative Launches Online Product Directory
Today the RoCE Initiative at the InfiniBand Trade Association announced the availability of the RoCE Product Directory. The new online resource is intended to inform...
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Eric Barton Joins DDN as CTO for Software-Defined Storage
Today DDN appointed Eric Barton as the company’s chief technology officer for software-defined storage. In this role, Barton will lead the company’s strategic roadmap...
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Transaction Processing Performance Council Launches TPCx-HS Big Data Benchmark
Today the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) announced the immediate availability of TPCx-HS Version 2, extending the original benchmark’s scope to...
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