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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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OrionX Reports Position InfiniBand as the Leading HPI Technology and Mellanox the Leading Vendor
"For now, InfiniBand and its vendor community, notably Mellanox appear to have the upper hand from a performance and market presence perspective, but with Intel...
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InfiniBand Continues Dominance of TOP500
Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) and the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) today announced that 204 of the world’s most powerful supercomputers accelerate...
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CFMS in the UK to lead Future Engineering System Research Project
The Centre for Modeling & Simulation (CFMS) in the UK has announced it will be leading the Future Engineering System (FES) Project. FES brings together CFMS, aerospace...
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Job of the Week: Director IT Engineering and Research Development at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is seeking a new of Director IT Engineering and Research Development in our Job of the Week. "The Director IT Engineering & ResearchJob...
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Spartan HPC Service Launches Down Under
The University of Melbourne has launched a new HPC service called Spartan that combines traditional HPC with a flexible cloud computing component. "Many research...
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New Ocean Current Simulations Reflect Climate Change
Researchers are using the Gordon supercomputer at SDSC to paint a new picture of global warming’s impact on the complex processes that drive ocean mixing in the...
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Video: Discovering the Origin of Stars Through 3D Visualization
This visualization from David Ellsworth and Tim Sandstrom at NASA/AMES shows the evolution of a giant molecular cloud over 700,000 years. It ran on the Pleiades...
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Nor-Tech HPC Clusters Power Groundbreaking Projects
Today system integrator Nor-Tech disclosed that the company is working closely with some of the world’s top researchers and innovators to develop, build, deploy...
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ISC 2016 Sets Record for Attendance and Program
Today the ISC Group announced that ISC 2016 drew 3,092 attendees from 53 countries, exceeding all previous attendance records. The conference and exhibition were...
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Analytics Frameworks
This whitepaper is an excellent summary of how a next generation platform can be developed to bring a wide range of data to life, giving users the ability to take...
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Exxact to Build HPC Solutions Using NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs
Today Exxact Corporation announced its planned production of HPC solutions using the NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerator for PCIe. Exxact will be integrating theExxact...
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Intel Furthers Machine Learning Capabilities
"Intel provided a wealth of machine learning announcements following the Intel Xeon Phi processor (formerly known as Knights Landing) announcement at ISC’16. Building...
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Supercomputing Gravitational Waves at NCSA
"Gravitational wave astrophysics will enter a new phase during the second observing run," said Eliu Huerta, head of the relativity group at NCSA and leader of the...
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Supercomputing the Link Between Life and Water
"For a long time, scientists have been trying to figure out how water interacts with proteins. This is a fundamental problem that relates to protein structure,Supercomputing...
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Altair Releases PBS Pro Source Code
Open source licensing for Altair’s market-leading HPC workload manager, PBS Professional, is now available. PBS Pro development communities are now forming andAltair...
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SGI Pangea is Industry’s Top Commercial Supercomputer on TOP500 List
At ISC 2016 this week, SGI announced that Total’s SGI ICE X supercomputer, Pangea, was recognized as the industry’s top commercial supercomputer in the prestigious...
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Allinea Programming Tools Release for Intel Xeon Phi Processor
"Our latest product enhancements will solidify our customers’ investment in the next generation Intel Xeon Phi processor," said Mark O'Connor, VP Product Management...
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Penguin Computing adds Intel Xeon Phi Processors to Tundra Supercomputers
Penguin Computing, a provider of high performance, enterprise data center and cloud solutions, announced its transition from pre-production deployments last year...
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Intel Omni-Path Deployed at Northumbria in the UK
Today Northumbria University announced that its has become one of the first UK sites to deploy Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) for their centralized HPC...
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