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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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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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UberCloud Announces Oct. 27-28-29 CAE Webinars on UberCloud/Azure
Sunnyvale, CA, Oct. 12, 2020 – UberCloud will present this virtual event on October 27 (Americas), October 28 (EMEA) and October 29 (Asia), focusing on UberCloud...
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Radio Free HPC: Liqid Gets Hot, NSF Billion for AI
We have our full staff for this show – first time in a long time. We start out with introductions….Henry still lives in a survivalist compound in Las Cruces, NM...
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The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Dell HPC Leader Thierry Pellegrino Talks Collaborative Inspiration and Why ‘the Whole World Is Morphing into HPC’
Thierry Pellegrino is vice president and general manager of HPC at Dell Technologies, putting him in a leadership position of a vendor whose servers are used in...
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Digital Twin Platform Powers New Mexico to Carbon Neutral Future
Oct. 13, 2020 — New Mexico is launching a new ‘smart infrastructure’ and carbon-neutral energy era on a grand scale, after its 2019 Energy Transition Act (ETA)Digital...
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Alkira Raises $54M Series B for Network Cloud Offering
SAN JOSE – Oct. 13, 2020 – Alkira, Inc., the network cloud company, announced today a $54M Series B funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) with participation...
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Virtus Expands Slough Data Centre with Addition of London11
London – Oct. 13, 2020, VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), London’s leading data centre company and part of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, announced today that...
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Report: AMD in Xilinx Acquisition Talks
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that AMD is in “advanced talks” to buy FPGA chip maker Xilinx, a deal valued at approximately $30 billion that would...
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DOE Under Secretary for Science Dabbar’s Exascale Update: Frontier to Be First, Aurora to Be Monitored
As Exascale Day (October 18 [1018]) approaches, U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar has commented on the hottest exascale question...
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Verne Global Announces Dell Technologies Platinum Partner Status
London – 8 October 2020 – Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for HPC, today announced it has achieved the exceptional status of Platinum...
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Nearly 1000 AMD GPUs Added to NNSA’s ‘Corona’ Cluster for COVID-19 Research
AMD and Supermicro have upgraded the “Corona” cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for COVID-19 drug discovery and vaccine research. The addition of...
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CMKL University, Taiwan, Deploys Nvidia and DDN for AI Supercomputing and Research
Oct. 6, 2020 – DDN, provider of AI and data management software and hardware solutions, announced its A3I all-flash and hybrid storage system alongside Nvidia’s...
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