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Using AI to Solve One of the Most Prevailing Problems in CFD

How can artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) solve mesh generation, one of the most commonly referenced problems in computational engineering? A new study has set out …

By James Sharpe

Crystal Ball Gazing: IBM’s Vision for the Future of Computing

Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ll get there at last month’s MIT- …

By John Russell

Intel, Lenovo Join Forces on HPC Cluster for Flatiron

An HPC cluster with deep learning techniques will be used to process petabytes of scientific data as part of workload-intensive projects spanning astrophysics to genomics. AI partners Intel and L …

By George Leopold

NSF Announces New AI Program; Plans $120M in Funding Next Year

As the saying goes, when you’re hot, you’re hot. Right now, AI is scalding. Today the National Science Foundation announced a new AI initiative – The National Artificial Intelligence Resear …

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Air Force AI Plan Treats Data as ‘Strategic’

October 3, 2019

The U.S. military’s approach to AI is equal parts offense and defense, acknowledging that primary adversary China could also weaponize the technology as a for Read more…

By George Leopold

DOE Sets Sights on Accelerating AI (and other) Technology Transfer

October 3, 2019

For the past two days DOE leaders along with ~350 members from academia and industry gathered in Chicago to discuss AI development and the ways in which industr Read more…

By John Russell

Summit Has Real-Time Analytics: Here’s How It Happened and What’s Next

October 3, 2019

Summit – the world’s fastest publicly-ranked supercomputer – now has real-time streaming analytics. At the 2019 HPC User Forum at Argonne National Laborat Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

DARPA Looks to Unclog Networks

October 1, 2019

DARPA will seek to unclog the networking bottlenecks that are hindering wider use of powerful hardware in computing-intensive applications. The Pentagon research agency has unveiled another in a series of post-Moore’s Law computing initiatives... Read more…

By George Leopold

ANL Report – Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Science, Improving Lives

September 30, 2019

Commitment to developing artificial intelligence (AI) as a national research strategy in the United States may have unequivocally defined 2019 as the Year of� Read more…

By John Spizzirri and Mary Fitzpatrick

MIT Lincoln Lab Welcomes Green AI Supercomputer: TX-GAIA

September 26, 2019

TX-GAIA (Green AI Accelerator), the new 4.7-petaflops system built by HPE and installed at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory's Supercomputing Center (LLSC) in Holyoke, M Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

D-Wave’s Path to 5000 Qubits; Google’s Quantum Supremacy Claim

September 24, 2019

On the heels of IBM’s quantum news last week come two more quantum items. D-Wave Systems today announced the name of its forthcoming 5000-qubit system, Advantage (yes the name choice isn’t serendipity), at its user conference being held this week in Newport, RI. Read more…

By John Russell

Hybrid Approach Emerges for AI Workloads

September 24, 2019

The discussion surrounding enterprise adoption of AI technologies is shifting from if to when, and what mix of IT infrastructure will be required to deploy and Read more…