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Pattern Computer – Startup Claims Breakthrough in ‘Pattern Discovery’ Technology
If it weren’t for the heavy-hitter technology team behind start-up Pattern Computer, which emerged from stealth today in a live-streamed event from San Francisco, one would be tempted to dismis …
Silicon Startup Raises ‘Prodigy’ for Hyperscale/AI Workloads
There's another silicon startup coming onto the HPC/hyperscale scene with some intriguing and bold claims. Silicon Valley-based Tachyum Inc., which has been emerging from stealth over the last ye …
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GDPR’s Impact on Scientific Research Uncertain
May 24, 2018
Amid the angst over preparations—or lack thereof—for new European Union data protections entering into force at week’s end is the equally worrisome issue of the rules’ impact on scientific research. Among the Read more…
Scientists Conduct First Quantum Simulation of Atomic Nucleus
May 23, 2018
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 23, 2018—Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are the first to successfully simulate an atomic nucleus using a quantum computer. The results, published in Ph Read more…
First Xeon-FPGA Integration Launched by Intel
May 22, 2018
Ever since Intel’s acquisition of FPGA specialist Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion, it’s been widely acknowledged that some day, Intel would release a processor that integrates its mainstream Xeon CPU server chip wit Read more…
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HPC and AI Convergence is Accelerating New Levels of Intelligence
Data analytics is the most valuable tool in the digital marketplace – so much so that organizations are employing high performance computing (HPC) capabilities to rapidly collect, share, and analyze endless streams of data. Read more…
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Mastering the Big Data Challenge in Cognitive Healthcare
Patrick Chain, genomics researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, posed a question in a recent blog: What if a nurse could swipe a patient’s saliva and run a quick genetic test to determine if the patient’s sore throat was caused by a cold virus or a bacterial infection? Read more…
Intel, Micro Debut Quad-Level Cell NAND Flash
May 22, 2018
Chipmakers continue to gear designs toward AI and other demanding cloud workloads that take advantage of datacenter flash storage capacity. To that end, memory specialist Micron Technology Inc. began shipping compact sol Read more…
Japan Meteorological Agency Takes Delivery of Pair of Crays
May 21, 2018
Cray has supplied two identical Cray XC50 supercomputers to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) in northwestern Tokyo. Boasting more than 18 petaflops combine Read more…
ASC18: Final Results Revealed & Wrapped Up
May 17, 2018
It was an exciting week at ASC18 in Nanyang, China. The student teams braved extreme heat, extremely difficult applications, and extreme competition in order to cross the cluster competition finish line. The gala awards ceremony took place on Wednesday. The auditorium was packed with student teams, various dignitaries, the media, and other interested parties. So what happened? Read more…
Spring Meetings Underscore Quantum Computing’s Rise
May 17, 2018
The month of April 2018 saw four very important and interesting meetings to discuss the state of quantum computing technologies, their potential impacts, and th Read more…
Quantum Network Hub Opens in Japan
May 17, 2018
Following on the launch of its Q Commercial quantum network last December with 12 industrial and academic partners, the official Japanese hub at Keio University is now open to facilitate the exploration of quantum applications important to science and business. The news comes a week after IBM announced that North Carolina State University was the first U.S. university to join its Q Network. Read more…
Democratizing HPC: OSC Releases Version 1.3 of OnDemand
May 16, 2018
Making HPC resources readily available and easier to use for scientists who may have less HPC expertise is an ongoing challenge. Open OnDemand is a project by t Read more…
PRACE 2017 Annual Report: Exascale Aspirations; Industry Collaboration; HPC Training
May 15, 2018
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) today released its annual report showcasing 2017 activities and providing a glimpse into thinking about Read more…
US Forms AI Brain Trust
May 11, 2018
Amid calls for a U.S. strategy for promoting AI development, the Trump administration is forming a senior-level panel to help coordinate government and industry research efforts. The Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence was announced Thursday (May 10) during a White House summit organized by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Read more…
Emerging Advanced Scale Tech Trends Focus of Annual Tabor Conference
May 9, 2018
At Tabor Communications' annual Advanced Scale Forum (ASF) held this week in Austin, the focus was on enterprise adoption of HPC-class technologies and high performance data analytics (HPDA). It’s a confab that brings together end users (CIOs, IT planners, department heads) and vendors and encourages... Read more…
MLPerf – Will New Machine Learning Benchmark Help Propel AI Forward?
May 2, 2018
Let the AI benchmarking wars begin. Today, a diverse group from academia and industry – Google, Baidu, Intel, AMD, Harvard, and Stanford among them – releas Read more…
How the Cloud Is Falling Short for HPC
March 15, 2018
The last couple of years have seen cloud computing gradually build some legitimacy within the HPC world, but still the HPC industry lies far behind enterprise I Read more…
Russian Nuclear Engineers Caught Cryptomining on Lab Supercomputer
February 12, 2018
Nuclear scientists working at the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF) have been arrested for using lab supercomputing resources to mine crypto-currency, according to a report in Russia’s Interfax News Agency. Read more…
Nvidia Responds to Google TPU Benchmarking
April 10, 2017
Nvidia highlights strengths of its newest GPU silicon in response to Google's report on the performance and energy advantages of its custom tensor processor. Read more…
Deep Learning at 15 PFlops Enables Training for Extreme Weather Identification at Scale
March 19, 2018
Petaflop per second deep learning training performance on the NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) Cori supercomputer has given climate Read more…
AI Cloud Competition Heats Up: Google’s TPUs, Amazon Building AI Chip
February 12, 2018
Competition in the white hot AI (and public cloud) market pits Google against Amazon this week, with Google offering AI hardware on its cloud platform intended Read more…
US Plans $1.8 Billion Spend on DOE Exascale Supercomputing
April 11, 2018
On Monday, the United States Department of Energy announced its intention to procure up to three exascale supercomputers at a cost of up to $1.8 billion with th Read more…
Lenovo Unveils Warm Water Cooled ThinkSystem SD650 in Rampup to LRZ Install
February 22, 2018
This week Lenovo took the wraps off the ThinkSystem SD650 high-density server with third-generation direct water cooling technology developed in tandem with par Read more…
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Google Chases Quantum Supremacy with 72-Qubit Processor
March 7, 2018
Google pulled ahead of the pack this week in the race toward "quantum supremacy," with the introduction of a new 72-qubit quantum processor called Bristlecone. Read more…
CFO Steps down in Executive Shuffle at Supermicro
January 31, 2018
Supermicro yesterday announced senior management shuffling including prominent departures, the completion of an audit linked to its delayed Nasdaq filings, and Read more…
HPE Wins $57 Million DoD Supercomputing Contract
February 20, 2018
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today revealed details of its massive $57 million HPC contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The deal calls for HP Read more…
Deep Learning Portends ‘Sea Change’ for Oil and Gas Sector
February 1, 2018
The billowing compute and data demands that spurred the oil and gas industry to be the largest commercial users of high-performance computing are now propelling Read more…
Nvidia Ups Hardware Game with 16-GPU DGX-2 Server and 18-Port NVSwitch
March 27, 2018
Nvidia unveiled a raft of new products from its annual technology conference in San Jose today, and despite not offering up a new chip architecture, there were still a few surprises in store for HPC hardware aficionados. Read more…
Hennessy & Patterson: A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
April 17, 2018
On Monday June 4, 2018, 2017 A.M. Turing Award Winners John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson will deliver the Turing Lecture at the 45th International Sympo Read more…
HPC and AI – Two Communities Same Future
January 25, 2018
According to Al Gara (Intel Fellow, Data Center Group), high performance computing and artificial intelligence will increasingly intertwine as we transition to Read more…
Part One: Deep Dive into 2018 Trends in Life Sciences HPC
March 1, 2018
Life sciences is an interesting lens through which to see HPC. It is perhaps not an obvious choice, given life sciences’ relative newness as a heavy user of H Read more…
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