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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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Riken’s Shoubu Supercomputer Leads Green500 List
Today the Green500 released their listing of the world's most energy efficient supercomputers. "Japan’s research institution RIKEN once again captured the top spot...
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ICC Updates Overclocked Vega Financial Servers with Broadwell-E
Today International Computer Concepts (ICC) announced that it has upgraded the company's ICC Vega line of high-frequency trading servers with the latest Broadwell...
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One Stop Systems Showcases Open Compute Flash Array with 500 TB in 2U
This week at the Flash Memory Summit, One Stop Systems showcased the OCP Flash Storage Array (OCP-FSA), supporting up to 500TB of Flash storage in a 2U form factor...
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NSF Centers for Innovation Focus on Machine Learning, Genomics and More
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is leading three new centers of innovation funded through the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Cooperative...
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Adept Project Explores HPC Energy Efficiency
"We have been working on developing a number of tools that enable users to quantify power and performance in both software and hardware, and then design a moreAdept...
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Seagate Rolls Out Energy-Efficient SATA SSD For Enterprise Cloud
Today Seagate announced the Nytro XF1230 SATA SSD, an energy-efficient drive specifically designed to meet the performance and reliability requirements of today...
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Argonne Discovers Self-healing Diamond-like Carbon
Scientists at Argonne have discovered a self-healing, diamond-like material that could revolutionize the design of future automotive engines. “This is a very unique...
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SC16 Keynote to Focus on Cognitive Computing
Today SC16 announced that Katharine Frase has been selected as the SC16 Keynote Speaker. "We are thrilled to have such an experienced pioneer and leader address...
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International HPC Summer School Prepares Next Generation
XSEDE reports that this year's International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences was a rousing success. "This program is an excellent mixInternational...
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One Stop Systems Partners with Liqid on 3U Flash Storage Array
"We have partnered with Liqid to provide our customers with a leading option for enterprise-class flash storage. OSS is one of the only companies currently producing...
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NCI in Australia Receives $14 Million Investment
The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australia's high-performance supercomputer, cloud and data repository, has received a $7M boost from the Australian...
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Panasas Rolls Out ActiveStor 20
Today Panasas introduced ActiveStor 20, its latest generation hybrid scale-out NAS appliance, featuring a 65 percent increase in flash and a 25 percent increase...
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IBM TrueNorth Project wins Inaugural Misha Mahowald Prize
The inaugural Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering has been awarded to the TrueNorth project, led by Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha at IBM Research. "TheIBM...
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Record Participation Sets Stage for next NVM Express Plugfest
Today NVM Express, Inc. released the results of its fifth NVM Express (NVMe) Plugfest. The event was a distinct success, with the highest attendance to date. "NVM...
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Enter Your Machine Learning Code in the Cognitive Cup
"OpenPOWER is all about creating a broad ecosystem with opportunities to accelerate your workloads. For the Cognitive Cup, we provide two types of accelerators:...
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FlyElephant 2.0 Improves HPC Collaboration Features
Today the FlyElephant team announced the release of the FlyElephant 2.0 platform for High Performance Computing. Versioin 2.0 enhancements include: internal expert...
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Seagate Announes Industry-First 2TB M.2 Enterprise SSD
Today Seagate unveiled a first-of-its kind, high-capacity drive that can help data centers more easily accommodate exponential data growth, while still maintaining...
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MIPT in Moscow Develops New Method of Calculating Protein Interaction
Biologists and mathematicians from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have accelerated the rate at which a computer can predict the structure...
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Mellanox Receives Baidu Award for Innovation in Machine Learning
Today Mellanox announced it has received the Award for Technology Innovation from Baidu, Inc. The award recognizes Mellanox's achievements in designing and delivering...
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