Here at HPCwire, we want to help keep the HPC community as up-to-date as possible on some of the most captivating news items that were tweeted throughout the week. The tweets that caught our eye this past week are listed below. Check back in next Thursday for an entirely updated list.
Total of $525 million announced by @Energy this year for #supercomputers at #NationalLabs. Goal: #exascale #HPC.
— DOE Press Staff (@EnergyPressSec) April 9, 2015
The power of Optimal Algorithms – gain exceeds Moore's Law: #KAUST's David Keyes lecture at Saudi Aramco. #HPC pic.twitter.com/Kg4SJy36SJ
— Suhaib Khan (@suhaibkhan) April 6, 2015
Dave Patterson: #IntelHPC surpassed tera & peta; when we’ve met challenges for exa, we’ll be onto zeta and yotta-scale #AuroraHPC
— Intel HPC (@IntelHPC) April 9, 2015
180 PF is fine, but #AuroraHPC will have more than that–Intel's PR mentioned "a new non-volatile memory architecture." #HPC
— Glenn K. Lockwood (@glennklockwood) April 9, 2015
#UIUC Dr. Klaus Schulten: #BlueWaters is the world's best microscope! Need counterstrategies for protein infections. @NCSAatIllinois
— Merle Giles (@MGCPAMBA) April 8, 2015
#TBT SC02: #Japan's #EarthSimulator wins big in Gordon Bell competition w/3 awards http://t.co/L43fd7EBpV #hpcmatters pic.twitter.com/CtHAWefb6c
— SC16 (@Supercomputing) April 9, 2015
Bioengineering uses #HPC to see molecular portraits of cancer. Computing aids cancer prediction w/ fewer false positives. @NCSAatIllinois
— Merle Giles (@MGCPAMBA) April 8, 2015
#IntelHPC and @Cray_Inc teams prepping for today's #AuroraHPC 180 PetaFLOPs system announcement pic.twitter.com/kRfFkraRIz
— Intel HPC (@IntelHPC) April 9, 2015
#BlueWaters is key for us understanding living systems at new levels, like never before- Klaus Schulten @Illinois_Alma
— NCSAatIllinois (@NCSAatIllinois) April 6, 2015
"We're proud to be delivering a much more powerful system to Argonne. It may well be the most productive system in the world." @cray_inc
— Argonne National Lab (@argonne) April 9, 2015
We have all @SummerOfHPC participants confirmed. Can't wait to meet you at #HPC centre in Barcelona at training week.
— Summer of HPC (@SummerOfHPC) April 7, 2015
Thx @RepHultgren for coming to see the petapower of #BlueWaters supercomputer during visit to @Illinois_Alma today! pic.twitter.com/SWxwLKaCEO
— NCSAatIllinois (@NCSAatIllinois) April 2, 2015
Dr. Klaus Schulten: every cell contains 300 million proteins. Develop antibiotics without supercomputers? Can't do it! @NCSAatIllinois #HPC
— Merle Giles (@MGCPAMBA) April 8, 2015
U.S. @RepLipinski is on hand for remarks about #AuroraHPC and extending computing frontiers #IntelHPC pic.twitter.com/DHHSZNEqHX
— Intel HPC (@IntelHPC) April 9, 2015
.@SenatorKirk #BlueWaters panel on vital role #hpc on science & society w/ @NSF_CISE @Illinois_Alma @CaterpillarInc pic.twitter.com/9hYuX8j8S1
— NCSAatIllinois (@NCSAatIllinois) April 6, 2015
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