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Xilinx Announces Winners of First Adaptive Computing Challenge

Last July, Xilinx announced the first-ever Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge. Run in partnership with Hackster.io, the challenge tasked developers with finding creative workload acceleration solutions using the Vitis Unified Software Platform and Vitis AI. Now, six months later, Xilinx has announced the winners of that inaugural competition.  The Adaptive Computing Challenge consists of three categories: […]

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What Gelsinger Can Do To Unscrew Intel

A little more than a week ago, Intel announced that Pat Gelsinger, its former chief technology officer and former manager of the predecessor of its Data Center Group as well as the current chief executive officer at server virtualization juggernaut VMware, would be returning to the world’s biggest chip maker to be its CEO and to take on the task of rescuing the company from itself and its competition. …

What Gelsinger Can Do To Unscrew Intel was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

HPE Selects DigiPlex for Hosting HPC Infrastructure

Oslo, Norway — DigiPlex, the Nordic data centres provider, has signed an agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) technology in its Stockholm data center. The DigiPlex Stockholm campus is located close to Arlanda, the capital airport of Sweden, the perfect geographical location for business needs. The multi award-winning campus runs on electricity from […]

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Graphcore IPU Put Through the Supercomputing Paces

With performance comparable to the Nvidia V100 GPU, a common accelerator in HPC but better energy consumption numbers and memory bandwidth potential, Graphcore can turn heads in supercomputing.

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Graphcore IPU Put Through the Supercomputing Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Ohio Researchers Use Supercomputer to Identify Potential Target for COVID Anti-virals

Jan. 20, 2021 — While the world awaits broad distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, researchers at Ohio University just published highly significant and timely results in the search for another way to stop the virus — by disrupting its RNA and its ability to reproduce. Dr.  Jennifer Hines, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and […]

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The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Flavio Villannustre Talks Open Source Analytics at LexisNexis

Open source champion Flavio Villanustre is vice president of technology and chief information security officer for LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which is a global developer provider of big data and analytics solutions to help manage risk and improve outcomes. As an active participant in the Dell Technologies HPC Community, he contributes an avid open source perspective. His goal: offering and looking for new HPC and advanced analytics insights, techniques and strategies with Dell managers and customers at the organization’s meetings that will help push forward with Flavio’s open source mission begun 10 years ago.

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