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AI Trust Remains an Issue in the Life Sciences

June 10th, 2020 (0)

The rise of AI – machine and deep learning – in life sciences has stirred the same excitement and skepticism as in other fields of scientific research. AI is mostly used in two areas of life sciences. The first ...

Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled – Here’s How Explainable AI Can Help

June 5th, 2020 (0)

Many deep neural networks (DNNs) make their predictions from behind an incomprehensible “black box,” which leads domain experts to question the internal reasoning behind why the model made certain decisions. What features were considered with what weightage, and how ...

Intel Says Goodbye to Intel Developer Forum

April 18th, 2017 (0)

Intel Developer Forum 2017 in San Francisco has been canceled, as have all future IDF events. In a message to the community on its website, posted yesterday, April 17, Intel writes: “Intel has evolved its event portfolio and decided to retire the ...

OpenPOWER Shows Strength at First European Summit

October 27th, 2016 (0)

In a show of strength in Europe before heading to SC16 next month, IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation today unveiled several new European initiatives and European-developed solutions at the first OpenPOWER Summit Europe being held this week at the ...

IDC: Searching for Dark Energy in the HPC Universe

October 20th, 2016 (0)

Editor’s Note: In this guest commentary, Bob Sorensen, research vice president in IDC's High Performance Computing group, argues that high performance computing is undergoing basic changes in how we should think about it and define it. Advanced scale computing was ...

The Hybrid Network: Monitoring and Management Beyond Your Own Four Walls

October 19th, 2016 (0)

More organizations are migrating applications to the cloud, along with more basic infrastructure, such as storage and application development platforms. A recent survey of IT professionals found that 92 percent say adopting cloud technologies is important to their organizations’ ...

AI, Intelligent Apps and Intelligent Things Top Gartner’s 10 Trends to Watch

October 18th, 2016 (0)

AI imbued throughout the enterprise is the major technology trend for 2017, according industry watcher Gartner Group. The company announced its prognostications today at the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando. "Gartner's top 10 strategic technology trends for 2017 set ...

PGS Adds Second Cray Super to Houston Mega Center

October 17th, 2016 (0)

“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 seismic processing capability by a full 50 percent. And ...

New TI SoC Halves System Costs

April 21st, 2015 (0)

Texas Instruments is challenging makers of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and targeting high-performance vertical markets with today's release of its Keystone-based 66AK2L06 System-on-Chip (SoC). The solution, which uses the JESD204B interface standard, cuts the total board footprint by 66 percent, according ...

Merle Giles’ Book Dives into Global Best Practices for Industrial HPC

April 20th, 2015 (0)

Nothing teaches like experience. A new book from co-editors Merle Giles and Dr. Anwar Osseyran, Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing: Best Global Practices, takes readers on a lesson-filled tour of HPC deployment in industry. Giles and Osseyran provide an overview ...

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