»This Week in HPC: American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, and What IBM is Doing About It

Cohosts Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research and Tiffany Trader of HPCwire discuss the executive AI initiative, plus highlights from the HPC-AI Advisory Council Stanford conference and IBM Think event. This Week in HPC is produced by Intersect360 Research and distributed in partnership with HPCwire.

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»EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Takes First Steps Toward Acquiring World-Class Supercomputers

Feb. 15, 2019 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched its first calls for expressions of interest, to select the sites that will host the Joint Undertaking’s first supercomputers (petascale and precursor to exascale machines) in 2020. Supercomputing, also known as high performance computing (HPC), involves thousands of processors working in […]

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»Insights from Optimized Codes on Cineca’s Marconi

What can you do with 381,392 CPU cores? For Cineca, it means enabling computational scientists to expand a large part of the world’s body of knowledge from the nanoscale to the astronomic, from calculating quantum effects in new materials to supporting bioinformatics for advanced healthcare research to screening millions of possible chemical combinations to attack […]

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»Ohio Supercomputer Center Opens Summer Institute Applications

Feb. 15, 2019 — Applications for the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s Summer Institute are now open.  Students are selected through a competitive application process. The student application consists of a Student Information form, a Student Essay, and one Teacher Recommendation. The top scoring students will be selected for the program. A submitted application does not guarantee participation. The application […]

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»Chemical Data Mining Boosts Search for New Organic Semiconductors

Feb. 15, 2019 — Producing traditional solar cells made of silicon is very energy intensive. On top of that, they are rigid and brittle. Organic semiconductor materials, on the other hand, are flexible and lightweight. They would be a promising alternative, if only their efficiency and stability were on par with traditional cells. Together with his […]

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»HPC Boosts Art and Design Students’ Creative Power at Virginia Tech

Feb. 15, 2019 — Virginia Tech students can use high-performance computing for their creative work to build  robust project portfolios to blaze their trails in the world. The School of Visual Arts in Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies offers an advanced rendering class for students in design-based programs, including architecture, industrial design, and interior […]

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»World’s Leading Computer Science Foundation Looks to the Future

NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2019 — The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) will hold its 50thannual SIGCSE Technical Symposium in Minneapolis, MN, from February 27 to March 2, 2019. SIGCSE is the largest computing education conference in the world, and will attract more than 1,500 researchers, educators, practitioners, and others interested in improving computing […]

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»Oracle Java 8 Launched with Lambda Expressions for Parallelism
The new Java positioned for convergence across the stack and for parallelism

»TechExcel DevSuite 9.3 ALM
Manage requirements with customization based on project complexity

»XebiaLabs: Why Dev Needs DevOps
New versions of XL Deploy and XL Release

»Nvidia CUDA 6 Now Free To Download
A promise of an easier parallel programming model

»Intel Updates Cluster and Parallel Studio XE 2013
Updates for Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 and Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013

»A New Measure For Agile Team Effectiveness
Software Development Performance Index (SDPI) developed with Carnegie Mellon

»IPython 1.0 Language-Agnostic Architecture
Architecture for interactive computing, includes parallel tools