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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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IBM Makes HPC Easier
IBM has introduced a new way for organizations of all sizes to buy and acquire a full HPC management suite including a community edition for those just starting...
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Peta-Exa-Zetta: Robert Wisniewski and the Growth of Compute Power
While much noise is being made about the race to exascale, building productive supercomputers really comes down to people and ingenuity. In this special guest feature...
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New Report Charts Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure
A newly released report commissioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and conducted by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines...
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Ron Perrott to Receive ACM Distinguished Service Award
Today ACM announced that Ron Perrott, an international leader in the development and promotion of parallel computing, will receive ACM’s prestigious Distinguished...
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GCS in Germany Allocates Record Number of Core Hours for Research
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany has allocated a record 1,648 million core hours of computing time to 21 scientifically outstanding national...
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Supercomputing van der Waals Forces on Mira
Over at ALCF, Katie Jones writes that researchers are using the Mira supercomputer to validate a new “wave-like” model of the van der Waals force—a weak attraction...
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Edison Supercomputer Helps Find Roots of MJO Modeling Mismatches
The MJO occurs on its own timetable—every 30 to 60 days—but its worldwide impact spurs scientists to unlock its secrets. The ultimate answer? Timely preparation...
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An Open Letter to the HPC Community
Altair is making a big investment toward uniting the whole HPC community to accelerate the state of the art (and the state of actual production operations) forAn...
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Dr Zoe Cournia to Receive 1st PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Today PRACE announced that Dr Zoe Cournia is the recipient of the 1st PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. As a Computational Chemist, Investigator – Assistant Professor...
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GPU-Powered Systems Take Top Spot & Set Performance Records at ASC16
Over at the Nvidia Blog, George Millington writes that, the fourth consecutive year, the Nvidia Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform helped set new milestones in...
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Designing Interfaces in Materials with Supercomputers
Designing materials atom-by-atom has long been a science fiction dream. Georg Schusteritsch and Chris Pickard of the University of Cambridge are bringing science...
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Podcast: Using Docker for Science at TACC
In this TACC podcast, Joe Stubbs from the Texas Advanced Computing Centter describes potential benefits to scientists of open container platform Docker in supporting...
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Panasas Joins IRODS Consortium to Bolster Life Sciences
Today Panasas announced that it has joined the iRODS Consortium as a contributing member. The iRODS Consortium leads development and support of the Integrated Rule...
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Optalysys Wins DARPA Grant for Optical Computing
Today Cambridge University spin-out Optalysys announced that the company has been awarded a $350k grant for a 13-month project from the US Defense Advanced Research...
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Flow Science Expands to Latin America
Today Flow Science announced that it has formed a new subsidiary, Flow Science Latin America SAS (FSLA), to sell and support Flow Science’s suite of computational...
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X-Stack PI Meeting Showcases Exascale Code
Berkeley Lab recently hosted the fourth annual X-Stack PI event, where X-Stack researchers, facilities teams, application scientists, and developers from national...
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Mellanox Powers OpenStack Cloud at University of Cambridge
Today Mellanox announced that University of Cambridge has selected Mellanox End-to-End Ethernet interconnect solution including Spectrum SN2700 Ethernet switches...
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University of Iceland Unveils Lenovo Supercomputer
Today the University of Iceland unveiled a new supercomputer that will boost research in a range of scientific areas. Manufactured by Lenovo, the cluster was funded...
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HPC Benchmarking Results for Intel Broadwell Processors
Over at the Dell HPC Community Blog, Ashish Kumar Singh, Mayura Deshmukh and Neha Kashyap discuss the performance characterization of Intel Broadwell processors...
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