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<div>  Please share with your colleagues.  The MIT organized High Performance Extreme Computing (<a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/">HPEC</a>) free virtual conference (Sep 14-18) features 200+ presentations (see <a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/ieee-hpec-2026-agenda/">agenda</a> );
 many on the latest developments in AI.  Register now at <a href="http://ieee-hpec.org/">IEEE-HPEC.org</a></div>
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