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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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Consolidating Storage for Scientific Computing
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Shailesh M Shenoy from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York discusses the challenges...
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Altair Acquires Electromagnetics Software Portfolio from CEDRAT
Today Altair announced the company has acquired CEDRAT S.A. and its New York-based wholly-owned subsidiary, Magsoft Corporation, expanding the electromagnetic and...
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NERSC Paper on Burst Buffers Recognized at Cray User Group
A new paper outlining NERSC's Burst Buffer Early User Program and the center’s pioneering efforts in recent months to test drive the technology using real science...
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D-Wave Systems Launches Quantum for Quants Online Community
Today D-Wave Systems announced the launch of Quantum for Quants, an online community designed specifically for quantitative analysts and other experts focused on...
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TGAC Installs Worlds Largest SGI UV 300 Supercomputer for Life Sciences
Today SGI announced the deployment of its largest SGI UV 300 supercomputer to data at The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) in the UK. As one of the largest Intel SSD...
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Fujitsu to Build 25 Petaflop Supercomputer at JCAHPC in Japan
Today Fujitsu announced an order for a 25 Petaflop supercomputer system from the University of Tokyo and the University of Tsukuba. Powered by Intel Knights Landing...
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Michael Feldman Joins TOP500.org as Managing Editor
Today the ISC Group, promoter of the TOP500 list, is pleased to announce the appointment of high performance computing industry journalist Michael Feldman to the...
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Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre* Software—High-performance File System
Intel has been working on a new HPC design philosophy for HPC systems called Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF), an approach designed to enable sustained...
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Personalized Medicine steps forward with Bioinformatics Method from BSC
In what is being cited as a step towards personalized medicine, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and IrsiCaixa have developed a bioinformatics method to...
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Podcast: Supercomputing Gels with Stampede
In this TACC Podcast, Jorge Salazar looks at how researchers are using the Stampede supercomputer to shed light on the microscale world of colloidal gels — liquids...
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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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