HPC and Penguins: An HPCwire Q&A

Sep 23, 2005 | What do high performance computing and penguins have in common -- aside from that omnipresent Linux mascot? Well, DreamWorks Animation's chief technology officer Ed Leonard and Suzy Tichenor, vice president of the Council on Competitiveness, can answer that question -- and a few more.
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Council on Competitiveness Video Depicts HPC in Everyday Life

Sep 23, 2005 | Narrated by the penguins from the animated movie "Madagascar," the video was created by DreamWorks Animation in collaboration with the Council on Competitiveness. The effort depicts how high peformance computing impacts everything from medicine and consumer products to energy and aerospace.
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Berkeley Lab Aids Katrina-Impacted Researchers

Sep 16, 2005 | The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will make its facilities and resources available for researchers whose work has been impacted by the Gulf Coast hurricane. The lab has created a web site through which scientists from institutions that were either shut down or damaged by Katrina can apply for research assistance.
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Talk Xanga: Capturing Gen-Z's Computational Imagination

Sep 16, 2005 | Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University There is a dire need to think of a cyberinfrastructure-enabled educational science, where information technology provides the necessary foundation to build pedagogy. If cyberinfrastructure is poised to change the way discoveries happen in science, technology, engineering as well as social and behavioral sciences, the educational system as a whole needs to reflect this urgency.
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Getting an HPC Education

Sep 16, 2005 |
Since its origin in February 1993, HPCwire has served as more than the preeminent location for news on the latest events in high performance computing. The publication has also assisted the HPC community as a meeting place for the exchange of concepts and ideas. Frankly, some of HPCwire's most interesting original editorial contributions have in response to features in previous issues.
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SGI Aids Finnish Weather Reporting

Sep 16, 2005 | The Finnish Meteorological Institute has selected SGI's Altix computer to deliver land, high-altitude and marine weather predictions for Finland.
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Finding a Way to Test Dark Energy

Sep 09, 2005 | What is the mysterious dark energy that's causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate? Is it some form of Einstein's famous cosmological constant or an exotic repulsive force, dubbed "quintessence," that could make up as much as three-quarters of the cosmos?
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LSST Receives 14.2M Award

Sep 09, 2005 | The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope has received the first year of a four-year award from the National Science Foundation to design and develop a world-class, 8.4-meter telescope.
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DARPA, HPCwire Announce HPC Challenge

Sep 09, 2005 | The DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems Program and HPCwire have announced the first annual HPC Challenge Award Competition. The goal of the competition is to focus the HPC community on developing a set of HPC hardware and software capabilities that are necessary to productively use HPC systems.
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That's Hot: Cooling Supercomputing Power

Sep 09, 2005 | The good news is users of HPC have more compute power than ever. The bad news: HPC users are stuffing all the processing power into data centers that are not designed to handle the extreme density of today's systems. HPCwire talked with HP's Scott McClellan and Chandrakant D. Patel to find out how they are helping customers manage high performance heat.
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ORNL's Zacharia Aids the Efforts of Open Science

Sep 09, 2005 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory's associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences is leading a multi-year initiative, on behalf of the Department of Energy, to develop the world's most powerful computing resource for open science.
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Healing Light

Sep 01, 2005 | Modeling of photonic crystals at NSF supercomputing centers, now partners in the TeraGrid, over several years has led the way to a major advance in laser surgery, exemplifying how computational simulations no longer take a back seat in driving scientific discovery.
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DOE Gives $4.7M for Automotive Technology Education

Sep 01, 2005 | The goal of Graduate Automotive Technology Education (GATE) is to train a future workforce of automotive engineering professionals to overcome technology barriers preventing the development and production of cost-effective, high-efficiency vehicles for the U.S. market.
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Sending out an SOS: HPCC Rescue Coming

Sep 01, 2005 | The SOS Forum series was founded in 1997 under the initiative of people interested in High Performance Cluster Computing at the Sandia National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab as well as EPFL in Switzerland.
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Selfish Proteins

Aug 26, 2005 | These molecular solipsists could make big contributions to science -- in spite of themselves.
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Mitrionics Brings High-Performance FPGAs to the Masses

Aug 26, 2005 | Mitrionics, Inc. announced a new development platform that will make FPGA-based high performance computing (HPC) accessible to the masses for the first time. HPCwire spoke with CEO Anders Dellson about this technology and its subsequent implications.
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New Directions for Computational Science Education

Aug 26, 2005 | Several professors argue that the current state of high-performance computing education at the undergraduate level can only be summed up in one word -- "broken."
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China Wants to Join 'Petaflop Frat'

Aug 26, 2005 | China is itching to break away from its dependence on the United States when it comes to producing the next generation of supercomputers.
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IT Spending Will Hit $1.3 Trillion By 2009

Aug 19, 2005 | Worldwide IT spending will increase to $1.3 trillion by the end of 2009, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.9% from 2005-2009, according to IDC.
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Plugging the Leaks in a Quantum Computer

Aug 19, 2005 | New work by two researchers at HP Laboratories Bristol sets out to solve one of the major difficulties in quantum computer architectures that use directly interacting qubits.
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Letter to the Editor: Expanding on Fran

Aug 19, 2005 | A reader writes in to expand upon Fran Berman's recent piece in HPCwire calling for more collaboration to advance research endeavors.
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NIST Inches Toward Quantum Computing

Aug 12, 2005 | Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used charged atoms (ions) to demonstrate a quantum physics version of computer memory lasting longer than 10 seconds -- more than 100,000 times longer than in previous experiments on the same ions.
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Asynchronous Heterogeneity: The Next Big Thing In HEC

Aug 12, 2005 | The High-End Crusader argues that system-level asynchronous heterogeneity is key to exploiting intra-application diversity for effective general-purpose petascale computing. One fundamental problem is: in a world of dependences, how does a computation that requires high thread state offload, onto a lighter-weight coprocessor, another computation that requires low thread state without being forced to wait for the coprocessor to return? A coroutine-like pattern of mutual enabling is seen to be the solution.
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CCT Hires Expert Thomas Sterling

Aug 05, 2005 | The Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, at LSU has announced the hire of supercomputing expert Thomas Sterling. Sterling is leaving his position at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to continue his computing research in Louisiana.
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Looking Back to See the Future

Aug 05, 2005 | The powerful visualization technology used to breathe life into a 2,000 year old mummy has some serious implications for the future as well.
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