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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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GPUs Power New AWS P2 Instances for Science & Engineering in the Cloud
Today Amazon Web Services announced the availability of P2 instances, a new GPU instance type for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud designed for compute-intensive applications...
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Supercomputing Experts Lend Expertise to Address STEM Gender Gap
Men still outnumber women in STEM training and employment, and engineering leaders are working to bring awareness to that diversity gap and the opportunities it...
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Supercomputing Plant Polymers for Biofuels
A huge barrier in converting cellulose polymers to biofuel lies in removing other biomass polymers that subvert this chemical process. To overcome this hurdle,Supercomputing...
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Penguin Computing Adds Remote Desktop Collaboration to Scyld Cloud Workstation
Today Penguin Computing announced Scyld Cloud Workstation 3.0, a 3D-accelerated remote desktop solution which provides true multi-user remote desktop collaboration...
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Allinea Adds CUDA 8 Support for GPU Developers
Today Allinea Software announces availability of its new software release, version 6.1, which offers full support for programming parallel code on the Pascal GPU...
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Mellanox Roll Out New Innova IPsec 10/40G Ethernet Adapters
"Our customers are looking for a highly integrated server adapter that solves their pressing need for network performance, efficiency and security, said Gilad Shainer...
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IBM Unveils Project DataWorks for AI-Powered Decision-Making
"We are at an inflection point in the big data era, said Bob Picciano, senior vice president, IBM Analytics. We know that users spend up to 80 percent of theirIBM...
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Rogue Wave Improves Support for Open Source Software with IBM
Today Rogue Wave Software announced it is working with IBM to help make open source software (OSS) support more available. This will help provide comprehensive,...
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D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum Computer
Today D-Wave Systems announced details of its most advanced quantum computing system, featuring a new 2000-qubit processor. The announcement is being made at the...
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Earlham Institute Tests Green HPC from Verne Global in Iceland
"As more organizations turn to high performance computing to process large data sets, demand is growing for scalable and secure data centre solutions. The source...
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Quantum Powers Petascale Storage at Two Major European Research Institutions
Today Quantum Corp. announced that two of Europes premier research institutions are using the companys StorNext workflow storage as the foundation for managingQuantum...
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SGI and ANSYS Achieve New World Record in HPC
Over at the ANSYS Blog, Tony DeVarco writes that the company worked with SGI to break a world record for HPC scalability. "Breaking last years 129,024 core record...
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Intel Xeon Phi Boosts Supercomputing at NCI in Australia
The National Computational Infrastructure in Canberra, Australias national advanced computing facility, is the first Australian institution to deploy the latest...
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Cadence and TSMC Advance Towards 7nm FinFET Designs
Today Cadence Design Systems announced several important deliveries in its collaboration with TSMC to advance 7nm FinFET designs for mobile and high-performance...
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Minimal Metrics Releases PerfMiner Parallel Optimization Tool
This week Minimal Metrics announced an early-adopter program, which uses lightweight, and pervasive performance data collection technology, automates its collection...
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Volkswagen Moves HPC Workloads to Verne Global in Iceland
Today Verne Global announced Volkswagen is moving more than 1 MW of high performance computing applications to the companys datacenter in Iceland. The company will...
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RCE Podcast Looks at Singularity Container Solution for HPC
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Gregory Kurtzer about Singularity, a container solution for HPC and research environments. "Singularity...
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PSyclone Software Eases Weather and Climate Forecasting
"PSyclone was developed for the UK Met Office and is now a part of the build system for Dynamo, the dynamical core currently in development for the Met OfficesPSyclone...
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TYAN Adds Support for NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40 and P4 GPUs
Today TYAN announced support and availability of the NVIDIA Tesla P100, P40 and P4 GPU accelerators with the new NVIDIA Pascal architecture. Incorporating NVIDIAs...
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