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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

Chaminade University’s Immersion Program Builds Capacity for Data Science in Hawaii, Pacific Region

Kuleana is a uniquely Hawaiian value and practice which embodies responsibility to self, community, and the ‘aina' (land). At Chaminade University, a federally designated Native Hawaiian servin …

By Faith Singer-Villalobos

Trovares Drives Memory-Driven, Property Graph Analytics Strategy with HPE

Trovares, a high performance property graph analytics company, has partnered with HPE and its Superdome Flex memory-driven servers on a cybersecurity capability the companies say “routinely” …

By Doug Black

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Intel, Lenovo Join Forces on HPC Cluster for Flatiron

October 9, 2019

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 Lenovo said they are providing... Read more…

By George Leopold

Optimizing Offshore Wind Farms with Supercomputer Simulations

October 9, 2019

Offshore wind farms offer a number of benefits; many of the areas with the strongest winds are located offshore, and siting wind farms offshore ameliorates many of the land use concerns associated with onshore wind farms. Some estimates say that, if leveraged, offshore wind power... Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Harvard Deploys Cannon, New Lenovo Water-Cooled HPC Cluster

October 9, 2019

Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences Research Computing (FASRC) center announced a refresh of their primary HPC resource. The new cluster, called Cannon after the pioneering American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, is supplied by Lenovo... Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

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

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

Bitcoin Mining on Russian Nuclear Supercomputer Proves Costly

October 2, 2019

One of three Russian scientists arrested in February 2018, on charges of using a classified government computer to mine cryptocurrency has been fined 450,000 rubles, equivalent to US$7,000. Denis Baykov, a former employee of the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov... Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

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

Are Printed Circuit Boards on Their Way Out?

September 25, 2019

Has the time come to say goodbye to printed circuit boards? Maybe not today, but soon, say two researchers from UCLA. Puneet Gupta and Subramanian Iyer make t Read more…