A Conversation with PSC's Nick Nystrom

Nov 11, 2005 | In this exclusive interview, HPCwire discussed recent HPC activities at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center with Nick Nystrom, PSC's director of strategic applications and a research physicist at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Kramer Spearheads Impressive SC05 Showing

Nov 11, 2005 | Bill Kramer, the SC05 General Chair, is excited about all the activities taking place at this year's show. The Supercomputing 2005 conference and trade show is poised to be the largest and most interesting in recent years.
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The Elusive Neutrino - New Window on the Violent Universe

Nov 11, 2005 | Scientists have long sought ways to map the Universe and explore its most violent phenomena, from mysterious gamma ray bursts and supernova to the black holes that inhabit active nuclei in the centers of galaxies. In their quest, some researchers are now focusing on subatomic particles called neutrinos, which show promise of being valuable messengers.
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Craig Mundie Speaks to HPC's Future

Nov 11, 2005 | If you are curious about what Bill Gates will say in his keynote address to the supercomputing community next week at SC05, you may be able to get a little glimpse of it in "The Next Decade in HPC," an article by Microsoft CTO Craig Mundie, published today in the new issue of CTWatch Quarterly.
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Blue Gene/L Hailed as Fastest Supercomputer

Nov 04, 2005 | At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory it was announced that the Blue Gene/L supercomputer performed a record 280.6 trillion operations per second on the industry standard Linpack benchmark.
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Quadrics Delivers Integral Interconnection

Nov 04, 2005 | HPCwire recently spoke with Moray McLaren, research and development manager at Quadrics Ltd., a leading supplier and developer of high performance networking products and resource management software.
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Taking Measure of Supercomputer Architectures

Nov 04, 2005 | With the re-emergence of viable vector computing systems such as the Earth Simulator and the Cray X1, and with IBM's Blue Gene/L taking the top spot as the world's fastest computer, there is renewed debate about which architecture is best suited for running large-scale scientific applications.
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What Cascade Curtain?

Nov 04, 2005 | A new connection on a fiber optic cable between Richland and Seattle has been activated to support the high-speed transfer of very large data sets between researchers at the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and other science communities.
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Haplotypes May Provide Key to Genetic Variation

Nov 04, 2005 | Bioinformatics experts have developed a very fast, low-cost computational tool to 'crunch' the world's largest repository of genotypes in order to predict genetic variations.
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SDSC Scientist Investigates Icebergs

Nov 04, 2005 | SDSC scientist John Helly is set to join a group of scientists that will study the influence of free-drifting icebergs on global warming trends.
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SDSU Visualizes 'Blue Marble' Imagery

Nov 04, 2005 | The Visualization Center at San Diego State University, using SGI visualization technology has added the processing and serving of NASA's "Blue Marble: Next Generation" satellite imagery system to its list of achievements.
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IU Makes Storage Available for TeraGrid Users

Nov 04, 2005 | Indiana University is now making tape-based storage available to users of the TeraGrid. Researchers with TeraGrid allocations may store up to a terabyte of data.
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FPGAs Forge to the Forefront

Oct 28, 2005 | The adoption of field-programmable gate arrays is increasing, but a fuller understanding and acceptance of their capabilities is needed for the technology to make the next leap into wider adoption. Malachy Devlin, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Nallatech, recently spoke with HPCwire to address some questions about what FPGAs can do and what is needed to foster expanded acceptance.
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A Not-So-Simple Matter of Software

Oct 28, 2005 | When we try to assess how much progress we have made in computational modeling and simulation, recalling some history about the related approaches of experiment and theory can help keep things in perspective. In that light, it seems clear that while computational science has had many remarkable youthful successes, it is still at a very early stage in its growth.
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Education Lights the Way for Shodor's Panoff

Oct 28, 2005 | Shodor's Bob Panoff marches to his own drummer and makes no excuses about it. He proudly relishes pushing his educational agenda. He's been doing so for the cause of computational science and mathematics for years now, long before itbecame even mildly fashionable to do so.
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SGI Recaps Customer Wins

Oct 28, 2005 | With the first quarter of its fiscal year 2006 recently completed, Silicon Graphics Inc. has reviewed some customer wins and product milestones that underscore acceptance of the company's compute, storage and visualization solutions in vertical markets throughout the world.
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Swami, the Next Generation Biology Workbench

Oct 28, 2005 | A free, web-based interface that links molecular biology databases with analysis programs -- accessed thousands of times a week by scientists and students worldwide -- is about to become even better.
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Purdue Climate Model Predicts Extreme Weather

Oct 21, 2005 | One of the most comprehensive climate models of the continental United States predicts more extreme temperatures throughout the country and more extreme precipitation along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and east of the Mississippi.
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Sunny Future for Nanocrystal Solar Cells

Oct 21, 2005 | Imagine a future where the rooftops of homes and buildings can be laminated with inexpensive, ultra-thin films of nano-sized semiconductors that will efficiently convert sunlight into electrical power and provide virtually all of our electricity needs.
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Los Alamos Claims Largest Computational Biology Stimulation

Oct 21, 2005 | Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a world's record by performing the first million-atom computer simulation in biology. Using the "Q Machine" supercomputer, Los Alamos scientists have created a molecular simulation of the cell's protein-making structure, the ribosome.
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Kepler Speeds SDSC's Workflow Automation

Oct 21, 2005 | Researchers at the SDSC and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis have initiated an interdisciplinary collaboration to develop Kepler, a tool for scientific workflow management. By helping organize and automate scientific tasks, Kepler lets scientists take full advantage of today's complex software and Web services.
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SDSC Taps Plants for Fuel

Oct 14, 2005 | Imagine mowing your lawn and then dumping the grass clippings into the gas tank of your car. Inside your tank, the grasses are digested and converted into ethanol -- a high-performance, clean-burning, renewable fuel.SDSC is providing HPC resources to help study ways to make this a reality.
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UKAFF Scores a Century

Oct 14, 2005 | The UK Astrophysical Fluids Facility is marking the publication of the 100th scientific paper based on the computations of its IBM supercomputer. This supercomputer has solved mysteries of distant galaxies thanks to its advanced features.
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ORNL's Phoenix Meets Challenges

Oct 14, 2005 | After passing ORNL's acceptance tests in record time for a large supercomputer, the lab's new Cray X1E system, nicknamed Phoenix, already is delivering unprecedented performance on some of the nation's most daunting "grand challenge" science problems.
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Supercomputers Aid Oil Drilling

Oct 14, 2005 | Oil companies could soon harness the power of HPC to tackle problems such as where to place equipment and how to clean up oil spills. For decades, the industry already has used computers to maximize profit and minimize environmental impact, so this represents a logical extension of computing capabilities.
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