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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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Will the Cloud Change Scientific Computing?
"What is important to researchers is ‘time to science,’ not the length of time a job takes to compute. 'If you can wait in line at a national supercomputing center...
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Bull Builds Bura Supercomputer at University of Rijeka
Today Bull Atos announced it has successfully installed the most powerful supercomputer in the Adriatic region. Named after the Croatia North Wind, the new Bura...
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UberCloud Offers SaaS Service for ISVs on Microsoft Azure
Today the UberCloud announced plans to support independent software vendors (ISVs) in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) with its new go-to-cloud service for theUberCloud...
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Comet Supercomputer at SDSC Helps Confirm Gravitational Wave Discovery
The NSF-funded Comet supercomputer at SDSC was one of several high-performance computers used by researchers to help confirm that the discovery of gravitational...
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Altair’s PBS Pro to Manage Workload for New NCAR Supercomputer
"Supercomputing is vital to NCAR’s research and this new system will be an important tool for researchers across the United States,” said Anke Kamrath, director...
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Mellanox Joins Nutanix Alliance for Enterprise Infrastructure
Today Mellanox announced that it has joined the Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Program to provide a simple to use and fully converged solution for compute,...
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TUM Munich Researchers Develop Nanolasers for Silicon Photonics
Scientists have developed a process to deposit nano-lasers directly onto silicon chips, paving the way for fast and efficient data processing using silicon photonics...
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ANSYS Simulation Technology Speeds ORECA Race Car Design
"Reliability and accuracy are crucial when it comes to developing successful cars," said David Floury, Technical Director of ORECA. "ANSYS is a key player in the...
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Exascale Architectures: Evolution or Revolution?
In this special guest feature, Earl Joseph from IDC describes his SC15 panel where four HPC luminaries discussed, disputed, and divined the path to exascale computing...
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IBM Cleversafe Brings Object-Based Storage Services to the Cloud
“One of the biggest challenges enterprises face today is the massive growth of data, fueled by cloud, mobile, IoT, analytics, social media, cognitive and otherIBM...
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DDN Announces New Patents in Object Storage
Today DDN announced it has been awarded additional patents for its groundbreaking WOS Object Storage software. DDN’s WOS enables organizations to deploy highlyDDN...
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BeeGFS Parallel File System Goes Open Source
Today ThinkParQ announced that the complete BeeGFS parallel file system is now available as open source. Developed specifically for performance-critical environments...
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Obama Proposes to Increase NIST Budget
The US Department of Commerce has released details of the President’s budget request for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2017 – proposing...
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FORTISSIMO 2 Call for Proposals: HPC-Cloud-based Application Experiments
Today, the Fortissimo 2 consortium of 38 partners has announced the launch of its first Open Call for Proposals. The project is funding a set of experiments (sub...
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Intersect360 Research to Discuss Hyperscale Trends at Stanford HPC Conference
There is still significant influence between HPC and hyperscale, in both directions, most notably in the areas of cognitive computing and artificial intelligence...
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Supercomputing the Mystery of Old Faithful
Over at Science Node, Lance Farrell writes that researchers are using XSEDE supercomputer resources to solve the mysteries of the Old Faithful geyser. “If you look...
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Advanced Hands-On OpenCL Tutorial To Kick-Off IWOCL 2016
Registration is now open for the Advanced Hands-On OpenCL Tutorial at the IWOCL 2016 conferernce. The tutorial focuses on advanced OpenCL concepts and is an extension...
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Changes Afoot from the HPC Crystal Ball
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Andrew Jones from NAG looks ahead at what 2016 has in store for HPC and finds people, not technology...
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Sony Acquires Altair Semiconductor
Today Sony Corporation announced that it has reached an agreement with Altair Semiconductor to acquire the company. The purchase price is $212 million U.S. dollars...
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