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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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Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Wins 80 Million Processor Hours on Titan Supercomputer
The U.S Department of Energy has awarded a total of 80 million processor hours on Titan supercomputer to an astrophysical project based at the DOE's Princeton Plasma...
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ANSYS Release 17.0 Provides 10X Performance Improvement
Today ANSYS announced that engineers across disciplines – from structures to fluids to electromagnetics to systems – will realize step-change improvements in the...
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Long Live the King – The Complicated Business of Upgrading Legacy HPC Systems
"Upgrading legacy HPC systems relies as much on the requirements of the user base as it does on the budget of the institution buying the system. There is a gamut...
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GPUs & Liquid-Cooling Speed APEXX 5 Advanced Computer Workstation
Apexx5_hero_web_smallToday BOXX Technologies introduced the redesigned APEXX 5, the "world’s most advanced professional workstation." Built to accommodate demanding...
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E4 Computer Engineering Collaborates with Ci on HPC Technologies
Today Centerprise International (Ci) in the UK announced a collaboration with E4 Computer Engineering to develop next-generation datacenter technologies for HPC...
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SGI to Deliver Advanced Data Processing for Nagaoka University of Technology
Today SGI Japan announced that the Nagaoka University of Technology has selected the SGI UV 300, SGI UV 30EX and SGI Rackable servers and SGI InfiniteStorage 5600...
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The GPUltima: Up to a Petaflop of Networked GPUs in a Single Rack
As developers have begun requiring more GPUs to process complex applications, manufacturers have looked for new ways to add GPUs to systems. Most solutions involve...
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How Containers will Enable Ubiquitous CAE as a Common Tool for Every Engineer
Over at the UberCloud, Wolfgang Gentzsch writes that, despite the ever increasing complexity of CAE tools, hardware, and system components engineers have neverHow...
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SDSC Health Division to Create Cancer Research Infrastructure
The Health Cyberinfrastructure Division of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is participating in a multi-million dollar project with City of Hope Cancer...
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AliCloud & Nvidia to Expand HPC and Deep Learning Market
Today AliCloud signed a strategic partnership with Nvidia to provide the first GPU-based cloud HPC platform in China. The partnership also plans to provide emerging...
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Bright Cluster Manager 7.2 adds Support for Docker and Intel Omni-Path
Bright Cluster Manager Version 7.2 is out today, a new release that "extends insight, integration, and ease-of-use for managing clustered and cloud-based IT infrastructures...
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Compute Canada Sponsors Human Dimensions Open Data Challenge
Compute Canada is partnering with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to launch the first ever Human Dimensions Open Data Challenge. This...
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ACTnowHPC Joins UberCloud Marketplace
Today the ACTnowHPC on demand cloud cluster joined the UberCloud online marketplace, where engineers, scientists and their service providers discover, try, andACTnowHPC...
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TACC’s Lonestar 5 Begins Full Production
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced that the Lonestar 5 supercomputer is in full production and is ready to contribute to advancing science...
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Zack Smocha Joins Rescale as VP of Product Marketing
Today HPC cloud provider Rescale announced that Zack Smocha has joined the company as vice president of product marketing, bringing two decades of experience in...
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Samsung Mass Producing HBM2 – World’s Fastest DRAM
Today Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 4-gigabyte DRAM package based on the second-generation High BandwidthSamsung...
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Allinea Scalable Profiler Speeds Application Readiness for Summit Supercomputer at Oak Ridge
Today Allinea announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed its code performance profiler Allinea MAP in strength on the Titan supercomputer. Allinea...
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Enhanced Air Cooling with Internal Loop
Although liquid cooling is considered by many to be the future for data centers, the fact remains that there are some who do not yet need to make a full transformation...
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Why Sustainable Software Needs a Change in the Culture of Science
"Scientific research is dependent on maintaining and advancing a wide variety of software. However, software development, production, and maintenance are people...
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