HPC

Dell will be the vendor behind the latest upgrade to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), part of the US Department of Commerce

Micron and Intel have announced an update to their NAND joint development partnership

Some 44 per cent of life science professionals are using or experimenting with AI and deep learning, while 94 per cent expect an increase in use of machine learning within two years

Microsoft has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Avere Systems, a leading provider of high-performance NFS and SMB file-based storage for Linux and Windows clients running in cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments

Intel is aiming to tackle the challenges of increasing memory bandwidth for HPC applications with an FPGA that includes High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2)

Intellegens, a new company spun out of the University of Cambridge to develop and commercialise novel artificial intelligence (AI) software, has received funding from Cambridge Enterprise and local angel investor Graham Snudden

Cray has announced the Company has joined the Big Data Center (BDC) at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Researchers at Ohio State University are using HPC to translate lesser-known languages as part of a project called Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI), an initiative through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

The fiftieth TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world – released this week ahead of the SC17 conference taking place in Denver, Colorado – shows a slump in the number of systems from the US as it has reached its lowest level since the list’s inception 25 years ago