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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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DHI Group Picks Bright Cluster Manager for Supercomputer Capacity Planning
Amsterdam, Netherlands – Wednesday, November 4, 2020 – Today, Bright Computing, maker of Linux cluster automation and management software for HPC and machine learning...
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Child’s Play: Kid’s Book Author Named Q-CTLR Quantum Education Advisor
Call it counterintuitive reverse psychology. Q-CTRL, a startup that applies control engineering to development of quantum technology, today announced that its quantum...
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AMD-Supermicro-Cornelis (Omni-Path) ‘Mammoth’ Cluster at LLNL Targets COVID-19
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and partners AMD, Supermicro and Cornelis Networks have installed a high performance computing cluster with memory and data...
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ICC Partners with GigaIO to Offer NovArray HPC Solution
Carlsbad, CA – November 3, 2020 – GigaIO, creators of data center network architecture and connectivity solutions, today announced an agreement with International...
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AWS Launches Nvidia GPU-Driven EC2 P4d Instances for AI, HPC
Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 P4d Instances powered by Nvidia GPUs with EC2 UltraClusters capability delivering 3xAWS...
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Juniper Research: Industrial IoT Connections to Reach 37B by 2025
Hampshire, UK – 2nd November 2020: A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global number of Industrial IoT connections will increase from 17.7 billion...
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German Climate Computing Center Picks StrongLink for 150 PB Data Management Project
The German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) has selected StrongBox Data Solutions (SBDS), provider of autonomous large-scale data management and archive solutions...
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Intersect360 Research Announces Nov. 4 Pre-SC20 HPC and AI Market Update Webinar
SUNNYVALE, CA—October 29, 2020 — HPC and hyperscale analyst firm Intersect360 Research has announced that CEO Addison Snell will present the latest research and...
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Cognite Collaborates with Microsoft to Transform Industry through Digitalization, Becomes Independent Software Vendor
OSLO, Norway— Cognite announced it is working with Microsoft to catalyze the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries. The Cognite Data Fusion...
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PRACE Opens Nominations for Ada Lovelace Award for HPC – Deadline: Nov. 26
From 22 to 26 March 2021, PRACE will organise the eighth edition of its Scientific and Industrial Conference – PRACEdays21 – as part of the EuroHPC Summit Week in...
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WekaIO Announces Cloud-Native, Unified Storage Solutions for Data Lifecycle
CAMPBELL, Calif. – October 27, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), the leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data-intensive applications, today announced a transformative...
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Nvidia Dominates MLPerf AI Benchmark Competition Again
Nvidia said it has extended its lead on the MLPerf Benchmark for AI inference with the company’s A100 GPU chip introduced earlier this year. Nvidia won each ofNvidia...
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NSF Awards $3M to Expand FABRIC Cyberinfrastructure
A new $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will expand FABRIC, a project to build the U.S.’s largest cyberinfrastructure testbed, to four...
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SoftIron Appoints Greg Bruno Chief Architect
San Diego – Oct. 21, 2020 – SoftIron Ltd., the leader in task-specific data center solutions, continues on its growth trajectory in both technical and geographic...
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Getting to Exascale: Nothing Is Easy
In the weeks leading to today’s Exascale Day (1018) observance, we set ourselves the task of asking supercomputing experts about the unique challenges, the particularly...
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Where Have You Gone, IBM?
The company that built the world’s nos. 2 and 3 most powerful supercomputers, according to the latest Top500 ranking of such systems, is to all appearances backing...
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Canonical Launches HA MicroK8s, Minimal Kubernetes
Oct. 15, 2020 — Canonical today announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. Already popular for IoT and developer...
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GCS Supports University Team deFAUlt in SC20 Student Cluster Competition
Berlin, Oct. 14, 2020 – The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) has announced it is repeating its role as sponsor of undergraduate students participating in the...
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Sandia Labs Fellow Named to Quantum Computing Advisory Committee
Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 13, 2020 — Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Gil Herrera has been appointed to the newly established U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory...
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