HPCwire: High Performance Computing in Research & Academia http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia RSS Feed for Academia & Research en-us Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:50:45 GMT 2010-03-19T15:50:45Z en-us NCSA Visualizations Featured in Hubble 3D http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/NCSA-Visualizations-Featured-in-Hubble-3D-88562672.html High-resolution 3D visualizations of galaxies, nebulae and newborn stars created at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) appear in Hubble 3D, a 43-minute IMAX 3D documentary narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:50:45 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/NCSA-Visualizations-Featured-in-Hubble-3D-88562672.html 2010-03-19T15:50:45Z Nine PRACE Prototypes are Available for Testing http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Nine-PRACE-Prototypes-are-Available-for-Testing-88561542.html PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, invites researchers from academia and industry to test applications on prototypes of potential future HPC petascale systems. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:34:55 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Nine-PRACE-Prototypes-are-Available-for-Testing-88561542.html 2010-03-19T15:34:55Z Astrophysicists, Cosmologists to Tap Power of Blue Waters http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Astrophysicists-Cosmologists-to-Tap-Power-of-Blue-Waters-88561002.html Scientists and engineers who are eager to tap the sustained-petaflop powerhouse, Blue Waters, for breakthrough research are already working closely with the Blue Waters project team to prepare their codes. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:04 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/Astrophysicists-Cosmologists-to-Tap-Power-of-Blue-Waters-88561002.html 2010-03-19T15:30:04Z NLR, Internet2 Applaud FCC's One Gigabit Per Second Broadband Goal for Community Anchor Institutions http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/NLR-Internet2-Applaud-FCCs-One-Gigabit-Per-Second-Broadband-Goal-for-Community-Anchor-Institutions-88498352.html The Internet2 and National LambdaRail communities strongly commend the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for emphasizing the importance of providing advanced broadband to community anchor institutions in its National Broadband Plan. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:23:39 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/NLR-Internet2-Applaud-FCCs-One-Gigabit-Per-Second-Broadband-Goal-for-Community-Anchor-Institutions-88498352.html 2010-03-19T01:23:39Z PRACE Held a Workshop on New Languages and Future Technology Prototypes http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/PRACE-Held-a-Workshop-on-New-Languages-and-Future-Technology-Prototypes-88426042.html PRACE organized a workshop on new languages, hardware accelerators and energy efficiency in high performance computing. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:10:52 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/PRACE-Held-a-Workshop-on-New-Languages-and-Future-Technology-Prototypes-88426042.html 2010-03-18T17:10:52Z EDGeS@Home Helps Solve the World's Energy Crisis http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/EDGeSHome-Helps-Solve-the-Worlds-Energy-Crisis-88424787.html The combined processing power of the EDGeS@Home project will be used to predict and optimize the behavior of nuclear fusion reactions. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:02:03 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/EDGeSHome-Helps-Solve-the-Worlds-Energy-Crisis-88424787.html 2010-03-18T17:02:03Z PRACE Grants 4.3 Million Core Hours to Prototype Systems http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/PRACE-Grants-43-Million-Core-Hours-to-Prototype-Systems-88423372.html Six projects, two from France and one from Norway, Denmark, UK, and the Netherlands, have been granted access to the PRACE prototype systems. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:02:49 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/PRACE-Grants-43-Million-Core-Hours-to-Prototype-Systems-88423372.html 2010-03-18T17:02:49Z HiPC 2010 Issues Call for Participation http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/HiPC-2010-Issues-Call-for-Participation-88207802.html The 17th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2010) will be held in Goa, India, during Dec. 19-22, 2010. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:00:52 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/HiPC-2010-Issues-Call-for-Participation-88207802.html 2010-03-17T19:00:52Z DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Attracts Record Number of Proposals http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/DEISA-Extreme-Computing-Initiative-Attracts-Record-Number-of-Proposals-88202617.html Europe's HPC infrastructure DEISA announced that the number of proposals received for the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI) had jumped this year by 62 percent to a record 122 applications. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:12:31 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/DEISA-Extreme-Computing-Initiative-Attracts-Record-Number-of-Proposals-88202617.html 2010-03-17T16:12:31Z KAUST Hits The Ground Running with Totalview http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/KAUST-Hits-The-Ground-Running-with-Totalview-87852412.html TotalView Technologies and KAUST, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, jointly announce that the recently-established university in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, has selected TotalView to provide the debugging capabilities required for all its research labs. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:00:02 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/KAUST-Hits-The-Ground-Running-with-Totalview-87852412.html 2010-03-16T21:00:02Z