German-based startup DeepL has unveiled an AI-powered language translator that the company says outperforms the best available from some of the largest internet firms in the world.
Researchers using the Department of Energy’s Cori supercomputer have broken the 10-petaflop barrier on two separate deep learning applications, one of which attained a peak throughput of 15 petaflops.
IBM is teaming up with four research institutions in an effort to study the effects of the human microbiome on autoimmune diseases. The effort, known as the Microbiome Immunity Project, is purported to be the “largest study to date of the bacteria in the human microbiome.”
At the Hot Chips conference this week, Intel lifted the curtain a little higher on Knights Mill, a Xeon Phi processor tweaked for machine learning applications.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is soliciting proposals from US universities to acquire a $60 million next-generation supercomputer two to three times as powerful as Blue Waters.
Melbourne’s Swinburne University is going to deploy its first petascale supercomputer, a Dell EMC machine that will be tasked to support cutting-edge astrophysics and other scientific research.
Using off-the-shelf servers, NASA and HPE are devising a way to allow a Mars-bound spacecraft to house an on-board supercomputer.
Flash storage specialist Nimbus Data has announced ExaDrive, an SSD that offers more capacity than any commercial hard disk drive (HDD) available today.
A free online course on the basics of supercomputing will be available on August 28 for anyone who signs up this month.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun to install Summit, the IBM-NVIDIA-powered system that is likely to become the most powerful supercomputer in the world when completed.
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