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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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Supercomputing Better Engines at Argonne
Researchers are using Argonne supercomputers to jump-start internal-combustion engine designs in the name of conservation. “Improving engine efficiencies by even...
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Dassault to Acquire Computer Simulation Technology (CST) in Germany
Dassault Systèmes, a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, has announced that it will acquire Computer Simulation Technology (CST), a specialist...
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Simulating Sea Ice Leads at DKRZ
Researchers at DKRZ are using supercomputers to better understand the movement of sea ice. "Sea ice is an important component of the Earth System, which is often...
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ARM to Power New RIKEN supercomputer
ARM processors will provide the computational muscle behind one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, replacing the current K computer at the RIKENARM...
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University of Tokyo Selects Mellanox EDR InfiniBand
Today Mellanox announced that the University of Tokyo has selected the company's Switch-IB 2 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Switches and ConnectX-4 adapters to accelerate...
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Nor-Tech & ESI Partner on Affordable Clusters for OpenFOAM
"We saw a disconnect in the industry between rapidly growing organizations that could really benefit from HPC clusters and the solutions that were on the market...
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Spectra BlackPearl Offers Direct Archive to AWS
Private cloud storage enabled by BlackPearl provides the best option for balancing performance and cost; however, some customer workflows benefit greatly from incorporating...
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Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor—Highly Parallel Computing Engine for HPC
For decades, Intel has been enabling insight and discovery through its technologies and contributions to parallel computing and High Performance Computing (HPC)...
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With China Kicking the FLOP Out of Us, the Gold Medal Prize is Future Prosperity
"Achieving the No. 1 ranking is significant for China’s economic and energy security, not to mention national security. With 125 petaFLOP/s (peak), China’s supercomputer...
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Softbank to Acquire ARM
The UK semiconductor company, ARM, may soon be acquired by Japan’s Softbank for £24.3 billion. The Cambridge-based firm is best known for designing microchips used...
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DOE Awards 1.7 Billion Core-hours on Argonne Supercomputers
The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 26 projects a total of 1.7 billion core-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), aDOE...
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CocoLink Using Consumer GPUs for Deep Learning
CocoLink, a subsidiary of Seoul National University, in collaboration with Orange Silicon Valley, has upgraded its KLIMAX 210 server with 20 of the latest GeForce...
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Faster Route to Insights with Hardware and Visualization Advances from Intel
An eye-popping visualization of two black holes colliding demonstrates 3D Adaptive Mesh Refinement volume rendering on next-generation Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors...
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Simulationclusters.com Shows ROI from Intel v4 Processors
Today Simulationclusters.com announced it is now running Intel’s E5-2600 v4 processors. A site for real-time demonstration of the ROI of upgrading from a workstation...
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Kyoto University Thinks Widening SIMD Will be Key to Performance Gains in New Intel Xeon Phi processor-based Cray System
"With an imminent switchover to a new Cray system with next-generation Intel Xeon Phi Processors (codenamed Knights Landing) planned for October, the ACCMS team...
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China Leads TOP500 with Home-grown Technology
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World writes that the new #1 system on the TOP500 is using home-grown processors to shake up...
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STFC in the UK Opens New Technology Center
Businesses in the north west of the UK are being helped to develop new products faster and more cheaply. The advanced engineering technology centre was officially...
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DDN Opens New Techology Center in Paris
DDN has opened a research and development center in Paris, in response to strong demand the French market and across Europe for high-performance big data storage...
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Linvision in the Netherlands Joins Bright Partner Community
Today Bright Computing announced that Linvision has become the latest company to join the Bright Computing partner network, to serve customers across Benelux, France...
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