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PNNL-Microsoft Collaborate on Cloud Computing for Chemistry, More to Come

RICHLAND, Wash.—Some computing challenges are so big that it’s necessary to go all in. That’s the approach a diverse team of scientists and computing experts led by the Department of Energy’s […]

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Google Cloud and Oracle Veteran Amit Zavery to Spearhead Product and Engineering at ServiceNow

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 25, 2024 — ServiceNow has announced that enterprise software industry veteran Amit Zavery will join the company as president, chief product officer (CPO), and chief operating officer […]

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Dallas Cowboys trade for Carolina Panthers wide receiver Jonathan Mingo

The Dallas Cowboys agreed to trade a fourth-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft to the Carolina Panthers in exchange for wide receiver Jonathan Mingo and a seventh-round pick, a league source told UPI on Tuesday.




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College Football Playoff: Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Miami top first rankings

Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia and Miami lead the first edition of the 2024-25 College Football Playoff rankings, the selection committee announced.




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Carolina Panthers sign running back Chuba Hubbard to $33.2M extension

The Carolina Panthers signed running back Chuba Hubbard to a four-year contract extension worth $33.2 million, a league source told UPI on Thursday.




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Tagovailoa, Jones among 5 must-start fantasy football quarterbacks for Week 10

Tua Tagovailoa and Daniel Jones are among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's five must-start fantasy football quarterbacks for Week 10.




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Fantasy football: Gesicki, Smith among 4 must-start Week 10 tight ends

Mike Gesicki and Jonnu Smith are among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's four must-start fantasy football tight ends for Week 10.




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Tracy, Harris among 4 must-start Week 10 fantasy football running backs

Tyrone Tracy Jr. and Najee Harris are among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's four must-start fantasy football running backs for Week 10.




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Thomas, Williams among 4 must-start Week 10 fantasy football wide receivers

Brian Thomas Jr. and Jameson Williams are among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's four must-start wide receivers for Week 10 of the fantasy football campaign.




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Horse racing settles in for winter with action in Japan, Hong Kong, Dubai

Racing settles in for the winter season this weekend with the Breeders' Cup in the rearview mirror and the Dubai World Cup Carnival opening its tents Friday at Meydan Racecourse.




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Lane's End Farm has banner weekend in U.S. turf racing

American horse racing turned to turf during the weekend, and Kentucky's Lane's End Farm enjoyed a banner weekend in the top contests.




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Sam LaPorta, Tristan Wirfs, Dalton Kincaid among injured in NFL's Week 10

All-Pro left tackle Tristan Wirfs and tight ends Sam LaPorta and Dalton Kincaid were among key players injured in Week 10 of the NFL season.




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Lionel Messi vows to return stronger after Inter Miami's soccer playoff exit

Lionel Messi said Inter Miami will get ready to "come back stronger next year" after the Herons' upset loss to Atlanta United in the first round of the 2024 MLS Cup playoffs.




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Defense helps Miami Dolphins beat Los Angeles Rams, snap three-game skid

Linebacker Quinton Bell and Miami Dolphins defenders deleted drives and put the Los Angeles Rams offense in quicksand, holding them without a touchdown to propel a primetime victory and snap a three-game losing streak.




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FC Cincinnati's Marco Angulo dies after car crash in Ecuador

FC Cincinnati midfielder Marco Angulo has died from injuries he sustained from a car crash, the MLS franchise and Ecuadorian Football Association announced Tuesday. He was 22.




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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott to have season-ending hamstring surgery

Veteran quarterback Dak Prescott will undergo season-ending surgery to repair his injured hamstring, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced Tuesday.




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Fantasy football: Justin Herbert among top add/drops for Week 11

Justin Herbert, Russell Wilson and Quentin Johnston lead UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's fantasy football waiver wire priority list for Week 11 of the 2024 NFL season.




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Pure Storage Embraces Next-Gen Networking for AI with Ultra Ethernet Consortium Membership

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 13, 2024 — Pure Storage today announced that it joined Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a Linux Foundation initiative dedicated to building a complete, open, and accessible Ethernet-based […]

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Cornelis Networks Partners with SURF to Enhance HPC Cluster Networking Capabilities

Aug. 19, 2024 — SURF’s innovation department recently collaborated with Cornelis Networks to advance networking capabilities for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. The collaboration marks a new step forward for SURF […]

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Celestial AI Acquires Rockley Photonics Patent Portfolio, Strengthening Photonic Fabric IP

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 22, 2024 — Celestial AI today announced the acquisition of silicon photonics intellectual property from Rockley Photonics, including worldwide issued and pending patents. The combination of Celestial […]

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Advance Science, Technology and Sophistication with SX-Aurora TSUBASA or Vector Processor or Vector Engine (VE)

Noritaka Hoshi, Senior Manager, AI Platform Division, talks about the impetus for and challenges within the development of SX-Aurora TSUBASA or a massive SIMD, created to handle enormous computing and […]

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Ease of programming on NEC’s Vector Engine or SX-Aurora TSUBASA

Raghunandan Mathur, Senior Systems Engineer, NEC, discusses now with modern day programming frameworks designed around the paradigms of scalar architectures and vector-like extensions, many present-day programmers expect a major learning […]

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Breaking down the barriers to HPC in the Cloud

Cloud-based HPC solutions are helping to break down barriers to entry for teams of all sizes that need access to high performance computing resources, and many different industries are finding […]

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Accelerating Research Innovation with Qumulo’s File Data Platform

Large-scale scientific research labs and academic institutions are utilizing high performance computing to accelerate sequencing, simulations, and analytics for research, learning, and discovery.  File data volumes are growing rapidly, and […]

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Harness Insights with Cutting-edge AI Capabilities from HPE

The demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) is rising dramatically as organizations rush to put their data to work. Several industries see a significant increase in HPC […]

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Accelerating GPU Based Applications with NVIDIA Validated Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage and Pavilion

What can be achieved using applications such as AI/ML, Deep Learning, and Big Data Analytics has been revolutionized by Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage’s capabilities. Agencies have invested in these solutions […]

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Leveraging Exascale Era Technology for Advanced Computer-Aided Engineering

How can manufacturers apply lessons learned from the dawn of the “Exascale Era” to Computer-Aided Engineering to achieve results like never before? Join Addison Snell, CEO, Intersect360 Research, Bill Mannel, VP, High Performance […]

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NVIDIA Ethernet Networking Accelerates xAI’s Colossus AI Supercomputer

Oct. 29, 2024 — NVIDIA has announced that xAI’s Colossus supercomputer cluster comprising 100,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs in Memphis, Tennessee, achieved this massive scale by using the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet […]

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GIGABYTE Joins AI Accelerator Skyscraper Congress to Highlight Sustainable Supercomputing Advances

Oct. 31, 2024 — Giga Computing, a subsidiary of GIGABYTE and a leader in generative AI servers and advanced cooling technologies, will participate in today’s AI Accelerator Skyscraper Congress, hosted […]

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Look: Fourth escaped raccoon returned to zoo in England

A zoo on England's Isle of Wight announced the saga of its escaped raccoons came to a happy ending with the final animal safely recaptured.




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Watch: 43 monkeys on the loose after escaping South Carolina facility

Police in a small South Carolina town are warning residents to keep their doors and windows locked after 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility.




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Look: Dangling fox rescued from wooden fence in Texas

Animal rescuers in Texas came to the assistance of a fox that apparently attempted to scale a wooden fence and ended up dangling by its caught leg.




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North Carolina man's age inspires $200,000-winning lottery purchase

A North Carolina man's age turned out to be a lucky number when it inspired him to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket worth $200,000.




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Kangaroo captured after three weeks on the loose in Florida

A kangaroo that escaped from its Florida enclosure while fleeing from a bear has been safely returned home three weeks later.




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Pet python missing for two months found at Chili's

A large ball python found slithering in the parking lot of a Chili's restaurant in North Carolina turned out to have been an escaped pet missing for two months.




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Stop for orange juice leads N.C. woman to $250,000 lottery prize

A North Carolina woman made a stop for orange juice and ended up winning $250,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket.




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Mattel apologizes for misprint on 'Wicked' doll packaging that links to porngraphic website

Mattel has apologized after inadvertently directing customers of its new line of Wicked dolls to a pornographic website, stating it is taking action to remove the misprinted toys' packaging.




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Watch: Emperor penguin recovering after 2,200-mile swim to Australia

An emperor penguin is being cared for by wildlife experts after becoming the first member of its species to make the 2,200-mile trek from Antarctica to Australia.




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77-year-old slice of Queen Elizabeth II's wedding cake sells for $2,800

A 77-year-old slice of cake from Queen Elizabeth II's wedding to Prince Philip was auctioned for $2,800.




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Highlights from GlobusWorld 2024: The Conference for Reimagining Research IT

The Globus user conference, now in its 22nd year, brought together over 180 researchers, system administrators, developers, and IT leaders from 55 top research computing centers, national labs, federal agencies, […]

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MLPerf Training 4.0 – Nvidia Still King; Power and LLM Fine Tuning Added

There are really two stories packaged in the most recent MLPerf  Training 4.0 results, released today. The first, of course, is the results. Nvidia (currently king of accelerated computing) wins […]

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US Treasury Issues Final Rule Addressing Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2024 — The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) today issued a final rule (Final Rule) to implement Executive Order 14105 of August 9, 2023, “Addressing United […]

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Situation in Indo-Pacific 'deteriorating,' says Australian defense minister Peter Dutton

Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton called for alliances to protect the nations and people of the Indo-Pacific region.




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Pentagon asks employees to report cases of strange, sudden sickness

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has pledged to get to the bottom of reports of military personnel experiencing mysterious illnesses while overseas.




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Malfunctioning B-2 bomber damaged during landing at Missouri Air Force base

A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber made an emergency landing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri earlier this week after the high-tech aircraft malfunctioned during a training flight.




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USS Wyoming submarine conducts two-missile Trident II test flight

The U.S. Navy conducted a two-missile test flight of unarmed life-extended Trident II-D5LE missiles from the USS Wyoming in the Eastern Test Range off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Fla, the Navy announced.




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Air Force secretary: Branch focused on confronting China, must retire old platforms

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said the branch is looking toward confronting China, as well as unity in its ranks, and added that the service needs to retire older aircraft and programs -- and focus on ones that work.