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Talk to Me: Nvidia Claims NLP Inference, Training Records

Nvidia says it’s achieved significant advances in conversation natural language processing (NLP) training and inference, enabling more complex, immediate-response interchanges between customers …

By Doug Black

Liquid Cooling Makes a Splash in Enterprise Data Centers

Direct liquid cooling is now gaining momentum in mainstream data centers — for many good reasons.

As servers get faster, they generate more heat, and that increases the need for innovative a …

Trump Administration and NIST Issue AI Standards Development Plan

Efforts to develop AI are gathering steam fast. On Monday, the White House issued a federal plan to help develop technical standards for AI following up on a mandate contained in the Administrati …

By John Russell

AI is the Next Exascale – Rick Stevens on What that Means and Why It’s Important

Twelve years ago the Department of Energy (DOE) was just beginning to explore what an exascale computing program might look like and what it might accomplish. Today, DOE is repeating that process …

By Tiffany Trader and John Russell

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Cray Wins NNSA-Livermore ‘El Capitan’ Exascale Contract

August 13, 2019

Cray has won the bid to build the first exascale supercomputer for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laborator Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

Supercomputer-Powered AI Tackles a Key Fusion Energy Challenge

August 7, 2019

Fusion energy is the Holy Grail of the energy world: low-radioactivity, low-waste, zero-carbon, high-output nuclear power that can run on hydrogen or lithium. T Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Xilinx vs. Intel: FPGA Market Leaders Launch Server Accelerator Cards

August 6, 2019

The two FPGA market leaders, Intel and Xilinx, both announced new accelerator cards this week designed to handle specialized, compute-intensive workloads and un Read more…

By Doug Black

Intel Adds 56-core Socketed Cooper Lake to Lineup

August 6, 2019

Intel today announced that its forthcoming Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, based on Intel's 14nm++ process, will come with up to 56-cores in a socketed fo Read more…

By John Russell

LLNL, Purdue Researchers Harness GPU Mixed Precision for Accuracy-Performance Tradeoff

August 5, 2019

Computational scientists have long relied on high-precision arithmetic to accurately solve a wide range of problems, from modeling nuclear reactors to predictin Read more…

AI for Science Town Hall Series Kicks off at Argonne

August 2, 2019

Argonne National Lab, future home to the Intel-Cray Aurora supercomputer, recently hosted the first in a series of four AI for Science town hall meetings being convened by Department of Energy laboratories. The meetings are aimed at soliciting and collecting "community input on the opportunities and challenges facing the scientific community in the era of convergence of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies." Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

Convergence of HPC, AI and Cloud Computing Charted at PEARC19 Keynote

August 1, 2019

A trio of keynote presentations from Intel, Google and Microsoft at the PEARC19 conference in Chicago on July 31 charted out the likely future of academic and h Read more…

By Ken Chiacchia, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center/XSEDE

PEARC19 Keynote Charts Path to ‘Flipped Scientific Method’ of In Silico Advancement

July 31, 2019

We are at the verge of a profound transformation of the scientific enterprise, and that transformation will be driven by AI, according to Rick Stevens, Associat Read more…