International Panel Reviews HPC in UK

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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Daresbury Laboratory Benchmarks Multi-Core Chips

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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U of Michigan Develops Quantum Computer Chip

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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UNM Researchers Tackle Antibiotic Resistance with HPC

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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Modelling Fusion on HPCx

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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Built for Speed,

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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Mining Data with 'Robbie the Robot'

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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Moving Computational Sciences Forward at PNNL

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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Taming the Whirlwind

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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Network Speed Record Broken for 3rd Consecutive Year

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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The Future of Custom HPC Application Development

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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NCAR Studies Land Cover Effects on Global Warming

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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KamLAND Uses PDSF, HPSS to Find First Geo-Neutrinos

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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M2005 Conference Sets Industry Standard for Data Mining

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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The (Supercomputing) World According to Horst

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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EPPC@15

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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Advancing the Power of Visualization

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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Climate Modeling at Max Planck Institute

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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Center of Excellence in Computational Biology Formed

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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Rolling Thunder

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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NERSC Develops Archiving Strategies for Genome Data

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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StorCloud Initiative Recap for SC05

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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TRIPS, A Polymorphic Microprocessor Architecture

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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PITAC's Look at Computational Science

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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Linux Networx's Ewald: 'Clusters are Here to Stay'

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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