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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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How Supercomputers Give Universities a Competitive Edge
In an NSF-funded study, a Clemson University team found that universities with locally available supercomputers were more efficient in producing research in critical...
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Is Europe Leading the Energy Efficiency Race?
Europe is notorious for its high energy costs. In the first of three articles on energy efficiency in high-performance computing, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing...
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Mellanox Demonstrates Next-Gen 100Gb/s LinkX Cables & Silicon Photonics Transceivers
Today Mellanox introduced three new LinkX 100Gb/s solutions with a live demonstration at the OFC 2015 Conference (Booth 2419).
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Nvidia Pascal GPU is Just One Year Away
According to comments made at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) last week, the Pascal, next generation GPU is now just a year away.
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Nvidia Showcases Deep Learning Technology
Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), being held in San Jose California this week, showcased a combination of hardware and software aimed at driving the development...
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Genomics and Big Data
Advances in computational biology as applied to NGS workflows have led to an explosion of sequencing data. All that data has to be sequenced, transformed, analyzed...
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Cavium Adds GPU Support to 64-bit ARMv8-A ThunderX Processor Family
Today Cavium announced support for Nvidia Teslas GPUs in its ThunderX ARM processor family.
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E4 Rolls Out ARM-based ARKA Servers for HPC and Big Data
Today E4 Computer Engineering from Italy announced a new series of ThunderX ARMv8-A enabled ARKA dense computing sever product line.
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World’s Most Energy Efficient Supercomputer Powered by AMD FirePro™
AMD powers the L-CSC cluster at the GSI research facility which achieved the number one position for most energy efficient supercomputers on the latest Green500...
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IBM Platform Computing Delivers New HPC Cloud Offerings
Clusters that are purchased for specific applications tend not to be flexible as workloads change. What is needed is an infrastructure that can expand or contract...
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Earthquake Researchers at SDSC Win Nvidia Global Impact Award
Today Nvidia announced that researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center have won the inaugural Global Impact Award and its $150,000 prize. The researchers...
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ANSYS Modernizes Code for Intel Xeon Phi
Today ANSYS and Intel announced a collaboration to speed structural code on x86 processors.
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Geophysicist Marianne Walck named VP of Sandia’s California laboratory
Today Sandia National Laboratories announced the appointment of Marianne Walck as vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory.
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Correct and Efficient Code – HYDRO2D
Simulation of physical processes such as the waves in an ocean or the wake behind a boat, although similar in a number of ways, require different approaches. With...
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IBM Platform Computing – Ready to Run Clusters in the Cloud
Demands by users that are running applications in the scientific, technical, financial or research areas can easily outstrip the capabilities of in-house clusters...
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The insideHPC Guide to HPC in Life Sciences
The term next generation sequencing (NGS) is really a misnomer. NGS implies a single methodology, but the fact is that over the past 10 to 15 years there have...
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IEEE is Rebooting Computing for What Comes Next
IEEE has launched something it calls Rebooting Computing (RC), "an initiative that proposes to rethink the computer through a holistic look that addresses all aspects...
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NSF Grant to Expand Indiana University GlobalNOC in Asia-Pacific
Today the Indiana University Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) today announced the award of a major new five-year, $4.8 million grant from the...
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Code Modernization – Why it is so Important
For about 40 years, developers and users could count on an increase in CPU performance that would make applications run faster. However, with the slowdown in constant...
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