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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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Oakley Cluster Powers Satellite Surface Mapping for Disaster Relief in Nepal
Researchers are using supercomputer automated surface mapping technology to help with disaster relief and longer-term stabilization planning efforts related toOakley...
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New Intel Xeons Target Realtime Analytics
Today Intel announced the new Xeon processor E7-8800/4800 v3 product families, delivering accelerated business insight through real-time analytics. The post New...
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BlueTides on Blue Waters: The First Galaxies
"The largest high-redshift cosmological simulation of galaxy formation ever has been recently completed by a group of astrophysicists (Drs. Feng, Di-Matteo, Croft...
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SDSC Trestles Supercomputer to move to University of Arkansas
SDSC's recently decommissioned Trestles supercomputer is moving to the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center. The post SDSC Trestles Supercomputer to moveinsideHPC...
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Petascale Comet Supercomputer Enters Early Operations
"Comet is really all about providing high-performance computing to a much larger research community - what we call 'HPC for the 99 percent' - and serving as a gateway...
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Numerical Optimization for Deep Learning
"With the advent of massively parallel computing coprocessors, numerical optimization for deep-learning disciplines is now possible. Complex real-time pattern recognition...
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Thomas Lippert Elected Chairman of Gauss Supercomputing Centre
Today GCS announced that Professor Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing. ProfessorThomas...
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RCE Podcast: Jonathan Dursi on “HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it”
In this RCE Podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Jonathan Dursi about his recent editorial entitled HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it. The article...
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Multi-GPU Cluster to Power Deep Learning Research at NYU
Over at the Nvidia Blog, Kimberly Powell writes that New York University has just installed a new computing system for next generation deep learning research. Called...
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Supercomputing New Materials for Improved Fuel Production
Researchers are using the Mira supercomputer at Argonne to accelerate the discovery of new materials for improved biofuel and petroleum production. The post Supercomputing...
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SOSCIP in Canada Announces $20M Research Investment
Today the Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP) announced a $20 Million investment to add new areas of focus—such as advanced manufacturing...
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Hornet and SuperMUC to Provide 247 Million Core Hours for Scientific Research
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) reports that the 10th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals resulted in GCS supporting 14 outstanding scientific research projects...
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NASA Triples Discover Supercomputer Capacity for Earth Science
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is boosting supercomputer capacity to over 3 Petaflops to meet the exploding demands of NASA’s Earth science modeling...
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Penguin Computing Goes Bright Box with Pica8’s Network OS
Today Penguin Computing announced that the company will offer the PicOS operating system as an option on the company's Arctica “bright box” top-of-rack switches...
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Interview with Dr. David Rohr
Dr. David Rohr is a postdoctoral scholar at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS). He’s currently working on several projects related to high energy...
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WestGrid Boosts Canadian Research Data
Network upgrades are enabling more data-intensive science in Canada, reports WestGrid, one of four regional organizations working in partnership with Compute Canada...
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SKA & AWS Seeking Proposals for AstroCompute in the Cloud
Today the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organization announced that it is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use cloud computing to explore ever-increasing...
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Supercomputing Tidal Models with the STORM Project at LSU
The Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology recently received a large grant from the National Science Foundation to begin updating theSupercomputing...
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Penguin Computing Extends Open Networking with Artica Switches
Today Penguin Computing announced the Arctica 4804ip switch and a collaboration with Cumulus Networks. The post Penguin Computing Extends Open Networking with Artica...
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