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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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Precisely Tuned Data-Intensive Algorithms Ascend the Graph500
When the latest version of the Graph 500 list was released Nov. 16 at the SC16 conference, there were two new entries in the top 10, both contributed by KhaledPrecisely...
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European PHENOMEN Project to Develop First Optically-driven Phonon Sources and Detectors
The Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) is taking part in the European PHENOMEN project, which kicked off last September. Funded through the FET-Open program...
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DDN and IBM Team on 50 TB per Day, Inter-Continental Active Archive Solution
Today DDN announced that Yahoo Japan has deployed an active archive system jointly developed by DDN and IBM Japan. The new system allows Yahoo! JAPAN to cache dozens...
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How Researchers Will Benefit from Canada’s National Data Cyberinfrastructure
"Individual institutions or organizations will have opportunities to deploy storage locally and can federate their local repository into the national system,” says...
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Cobham Opera Simulation Software Moves Tokamak Closer to Fusion Energy
The Cobham Technical Services Opera software is helping Tokamak Energy to reduce the very high costs associated with prototyping a new fusion power plant concept...
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Supercomputing Drug Discovery to Combat Heart Disease
Using a unique computational approach to rapidly sample proteins in their natural state of gyrating, bobbing, and weaving, a research team from UC San Diego and...
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NVIDIA Launches Deep Learning Teaching Kit for University Professors
"With demand for graduates with AI skills booming, we’ve released the NVIDIA Deep Learning Teaching Kit to help educators give their students hands on experience...
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NIH Powers Biowulf Cluster with Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand
Today Mellanox announced that NIH, the U.S. National Institute of Health’s Center for Information Technology, has selected Mellanox 100G EDR InfiniBand solutions...
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Kx Streaming Analytics Crunches 1.2 Billion NYC Taxi Data Points using Intel Xeon Phi
"The complexity and high costs of architecting and maintaining streaming analytics solutions often make it difficult to get new projects off the ground. That’sKx...
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Cray Sets New Supercomputing Record with HLRS and Ansys
ANSYS, HLRS and Cray have pushed the boundaries of supercomputing by achieving a new supercomputing milestone by scaling ANSYS software to 172,032 cores on theCray...
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Video: Behind the Machine at HPE
How is Hewlett Packard Enterprise reinventing the fundamental architecture on which all computers have been built for the past 60 years? In this video, HPC describes...
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DDN IME Burst Buffer Exceeds 1 TB/s for Japan’s Fastest Supercomputer
"Storage performance has been one of the biggest challenges in developing supercomputers. To meet the demands for storage performance, IME was introduced to the...
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Bernd Mohr on how #hpcconnects on Road to SC17
In this special guest feature, SC17 General Chair Bernd Mohr write that the conference will focus on making connections. "We are very confident, that SC17 willBernd...
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New InfiniBand Architecture Specifications Extends Virtualization Support
"As performance demands continue to evolve in both HPC and enterprise cloud applications, the IBTA saw an increasing need for new enhancements to InfiniBand’s network...
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13.7 Petaflop MareNostrum 4 Supercomputer Coming to BSC
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center announced plans to MareNostrum 4, a 13.7 Petaflop supercomputer that will be 12.4 times more powerful than the current...
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HPE Goes All-Flash for Public Cloud with 3PAR, Lowers Long Term Storage Costs with Spectra Logic
Today HPE announced today a comprehensive initiative that brings together the best of on-premises performance, application availability, and control with the convenience...
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BSC Paper: Scale-in on Large-memory Nodes to Save Energy
Researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center have received the award for Best Paper of the MEMSYS 2016 conference. "This study confirms that improvements...
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CERN Selects T-Systems and Huawei for Helix Nebula Science Cloud
Today CERN announced that it has selected T-Systems and Huawei to design, prototype the pilot phase of the Helix Nebula Science Cloud. T-Systems and Huawei will...
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Chinese Research Team Wins Gordon Bell Prize using #1 Sunway TaihuLight Supercomputer
A weather science team from China has won 2016 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their research project, “10M-Core Scalable Fully-Implicit Solver for Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric...
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