SGI Supercomputer Upgrade to Boost Total Exploration in 2016
Energy giant Total will use its recently announced supercomputer upgrade to improve the productivity and efficiency of its seismic processing and reservoir simulation processes when the system goes...
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HPC for Advanced Analytics at the USPS
Steve Conway, Research Vice President, IDC's High Performance Computing group Today, the United States Postal Service is on its third generation of supercomputers, with each generation more capable...
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Government Labs Give Enterprises a Supercomputing Boost
International conglomerates, tech startups, and SMBs can tap into the federal government's investments in supercomputers and expertise through a series of programs operated by several of the nation's...
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Ex-Baidu Researcher Ren Wu Denies Wrongdoing
Dr. Ren Wu vigorously denies the charges of cheating that led Baidu to reportedly fire the head of its Heterogeneous Computing team after the Chinese search engine developer's supercomputer team was...
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Enterprises Embrace Obama’s HPC Moon Shot
Could President Barack Obama's executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) do for high performance computing what President John F. Kennedy's proclamation about...
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Achieving High Performance Computing without the Supercomputer
When most hear the term "High-Performance Computing" or HPC, what often comes to mind is the image of well-funded research laboratories, think CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where the sheer processing...
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Cray Forecasts More Enterprise Contracts
Global supercomputer maker Cray's recent deals with Danish and Swiss meteorological organizations further cemented its leadership in the weather business, but Cray predicts blue skies ahead for...
View ArticleMicrosoft Eyes AI Supercomputer on Azure
Microsoft is jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon with the formation of a new research group that will seek to make the technology more accessible via its Azure cloud while helping to...
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PGS Adds Second Cray Super to Houston Mega Center
“We’re gonna need a bigger supercomputer” is what Norwegian oil and gas company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) must have said to Cray ahead of working with the iconic supercomputer maker to expand its...
View ArticleMassive, ‘Geophysically Configured’ Oil & Gas Supercomputer Coming On Line in...
Based on some news stories in circulation, one might get the impression that the next system to take No. 1 on the Top500 list could be an industrial oil and gas monster, which would be a first for a...
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ISC 2020: Hoefler’s Virtual Tour of ML Trends in 9 Slides
The ISC20 experience this year via livestreaming and pre-recordings is interesting and perhaps a bit odd. That said presenters’ efforts to condense their comments makes for economic use of your time....
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ENIAC at 75: Celebrating the World’s First Supercomputer
With little fanfare, today’s computer revolution was arguably born and announced through a small, innocuous, two-column story at the bottom of the front page of The New York Times on Feb. 15, 1946. In...
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Tesla Reveals More Design Details of Its Modular ‘Dojo’ Supercomputer & D1 Chip
Two months ago, Tesla revealed a massive GPU cluster that it said was “roughly the number five supercomputer in the world,” and which was just a precursor to Tesla’s real supercomputing moonshot: the...
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Facebook Parent Company Meta Builds Massive AI Supercomputer
Fresh off its rebrand last October, Meta (née Facebook) is putting muscle behind its vision of a metaversal future with a massive new AI supercomputer called the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC). Meta...
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Ceremorphic Touts Its HPC Silicon Technology for Supercomputing and Exits...
In a market still filling with fledging silicon chips, Ceremorphic, Inc. has exited stealth and is telling the world about what it calls its patented new ThreadArch multi-thread processor technology...
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