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Dec 16, 2005 |
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) invited the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) to coordinate an international review of research using high performance computing in the UK - the first ever Anglo-German collaboration of its kind.
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Dec 16, 2005 |
On December 6th and 7th about 250 people attended the 16th Machine Evaluation Workshop at EPSRC Daresbury Laboratories, UK. This workshop is a leading UK national event dedicated to distributed, high performance scientific computing.
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Dec 16, 2005 |
Researchers at the University of Michigan have produced what is believed to be the first scalable quantum computer chip, which could mean big gains in the worldwide race to develop a quantum computer.
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Dec 16, 2005 |
In the last twenty years, the efficacy of antibiotics has been overshadowed by the emergence of drug-resistant bacterial strains. Researchers at the University of New Mexico are using sophisticated computational approaches to understand the mechanism of antibiotic resistance.
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Dec 16, 2005 |
Global tokamak turbulence calculations present truly 'grand challenges' to the most powerful computers in the world. And with the promise that controlled thermonuclear fusion can meet the world's energy requirements without greenhouse gas production or the need for disposal of radioactive wastes, these calculations are of intense interest to researchers worldwide.
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Dec 16, 2005 |
While computer gamers are eagerly awaiting the next generation of platforms, the computer scientists of Lawrence Livermore's Graphics Architectures for Intelligence Applications project are researching graphics processing units to determine how they might be used in applications other than virtual entertainment.
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Dec 16, 2005 |
"Robbie the Robot," named for the mechanical star of the 1950s sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet," is a cutting-edge, automated storage and retrieval system that will enable vast amounts of data to be seamlessly archived and quickly located for researchers' use.
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Dec 09, 2005 |
The editor for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's magazine interviews George Michaels, Associate Laboratory Director for the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate (CISD), PNNL's fastest growing research directorate. As CISD's leader, George Michaels is leading the charge to provide the best-in-class tools for the next generation of discovery.
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Dec 09, 2005 |
Using 2,048 processors of LeMieux, PSC's terascale system, a lead resource on the TeraGrid, P. K. Yeung simulated the highest Reynolds number ever calculated by direct numerical simulation of turbulent dispersion, marking a milestone in turbulence simulation.
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Dec 09, 2005 |
For the third consecutive year, an international team of scientists and engineers has smashed the network speed record, moving data at a peak rate of 131.6 gigabits per second. Participants from Caltech, SLAC, Fermilab, CERN, Michigan, Florida, Brookhaven, Vanderbilt and partners in the UK, Brazil, Korea and Japan joined together to set the new world record at the Supercomputing 2005 Bandwidth Challenge.
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Dec 09, 2005 |
As Moore's law has stalled on the desktop, scientists and engineers in virtually every field are turning to high-performance computing to solve some of today's most important and complex problems. With simulation increasingly replacing physical testing, more complex phenomena being modeled, and whole products or systems being simulated, technical computing -- whether in the life sciences, manufacturing, energy, intelligence, defense, or earth sciences -- has become both more prominent and more challenging.
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Dec 09, 2005 |
New simulations of 21st-century climate show that human-produced changes in land cover could produce additional warming in the Amazon region comparable to that caused by greenhouse gases, while counteracting greenhouse warming by 25 percent to 50 percent in some midlatitude areas.
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Dec 02, 2005 |
In a paper which was featured on the cover of the July 28, 2005 issue of Nature, an international group of researchers reported the first observation of geologically produced anti-neutrinos. The observation is giving scientists new insight into the interior of our planet.
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Dec 02, 2005 |
SAS Institute Inc., a provider of business analytics software, recently hosted its 8th annual data mining technology conference, M2005.Nearly 700 attendees from 43 states and 18 countries came to Las Vegas from 300 business, academic and government organizations for the chance to hear from 50 noteworthy speakers.
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Dec 02, 2005 |
Last month at UC Berkeley, Horst Simon presented a lecture entitled "Progress in Supercomputing: The Top Three Breakthroughs of the Last 20 Years and the Top Three Challenges for the Next 20 Years." In the lecture, he gives us his historical perspective of supercomputing over the last two decades and his outlook for the next two.
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Dec 02, 2005 |
This year marks the 15th birthday of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. This is, for us a significant milestone and I wanted to take this opportunity to review the past decade and a half, not only in terms of the changes we have seen as an organization, but also to reflect on the revolution that has taken place in the HPC arena more generally.
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Dec 02, 2005 |
Finding "affordable visualization" with enough scalable horsepower is often impossible for scientists and engineers who need HPC visualization capabilities to analyze large data sets. Steve Briggs, HPCD's SVA product marketing manager, explains how the HP Scalable Visualization Array addresses this need.
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Dec 02, 2005 |
Earth system and climate science deals with complex phenomena in the atmosphere, the ocean and on land surfaces. Modeling such phenomena numerically on extremely powerful computers is a crucial element of Earth System Sciences program at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg, Germany.
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Dec 02, 2005 |
SRI International has announced the formation of its Center of Excellence in Computational Biology. The Center's mission is to conduct collaborative research in symbolic systems biology, synthetic biology and bioinformatics to advance scientific understanding of biological systems and accelerate drug discovery and development.
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Nov 25, 2005 |
This spring, for the first time, real-time forecasts running daily on PSC's LeMieux, a lead resource of the TeraGrid, correctly predicted the details of thunderstorms 24 hours in advance.
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Nov 25, 2005 |
When researchers at the Production Genome Facility at DOE's Joint Genome Institute found they were generating data so fast they couldn't find anywhere to store the files, let alone make them easily accessible for analysis, a collaboration with NERSC's Mass Storage Group developed strategies for improving the reliability of data storage while making retrieval easier.
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Nov 25, 2005 |
This year, teams of HPC experts demonstrated diverse data-intensive applications using the onsite StorCloud storage infrastructure at SC05 in Seattle, Washington.
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Nov 25, 2005 |
TRIPS is a new microprocessor architecture, being designed at the University of Texas at Austin, to support polymorphous computing. The project's goal is to produce a scalable, general-purpose microprocessor capable of executing more than a trillion calculations per second.
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Nov 25, 2005 |
In June 2004, the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee was charged by John Marburger, the President's Science Advisory, to respond to seven questions regarding the state of computational science. In June 2005, the committee released its report, entitled Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness.
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Nov 11, 2005 |
Linux Networx's CEO, Robert H. "Bo" Ewald, will come to SC05 with some exciting news.His company will use the conference spotlight to announce that it has transformed its clusters into a new product series with two distinct families.
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Contributing commentator, Andrew Jones, offers a break in the news cycle with an assessment of what the national "size matters" contest means for the U.S. and other nations...
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Today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzing, Germany, Jack Dongarra presented on a proposed benchmark that could carry a bit more weight than its older Linpack companion. The high performance conjugate gradient (HPCG) concept takes into account new architectures for new applications, while shedding the floating point....
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Not content to let the Tianhe-2 announcement ride alone, Intel rolled out a series of announcements around its Knights Corner and Xeon Phi products--all of which are aimed at adding some options and variety for a wider base of potential users across the HPC spectrum. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, the company's Raj....
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Jun 18, 2013 |
The world's largest supercomputers, like Tianhe-2, are great at traditional, compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as simulating atomic decay or modeling tornados. But data-intensive applications--such as mining big data sets for connections--is a different sort of workload, and runs best on a different sort of computer.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
Researchers are finding innovative uses for Gordon, the 285 teraflop supercomputer housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that has a unique Flash-based storage system. Since going online, researchers have put the incredibly fast I/O to use on a wide variety of workloads, ranging from chemistry to political science.
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Jun 17, 2013 |
The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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Jun 14, 2013 |
For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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Jun 13, 2013 |
Titan, the Cray XK7 at the Oak Ridge National Lab that debuted last fall as the fastest supercomputer in the world with 17.59 petaflops of sustained computing power, will rely on its previous LINPACK test for the upcoming edition of the Top 500 list.
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05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.
04/15/2013 | Bull | “50% of HPC users say their largest jobs scale to 120 cores or less.” How about yours? Are your codes ready to take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s ultra-parallel HPC systems? Download this White Paper by Analysts Intersect360 Research to see what Bull and Intel’s Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming can do for your codes.
Join HPCwire Editor Nicole Hemsoth and Dr. David Bader from Georgia Tech as they take center stage on opening night at Atlanta's first Big Data Kick Off Week, filmed in front of a live audience. Nicole and David look at the evolution of HPC, today's big data challenges, discuss real world solutions, and reveal their predictions. Exactly what does the future holds for HPC?
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