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XSEDE IMPACT JULY 2022

 
 
July 2022 | Science Highlights, Announcements & Upcoming Events
 
XSEDE helps the nation's most creative minds discover breakthroughs and solutions for some of the world's greatest scientific challenges. Through free, customized access to the National Science Foundation's advanced digital resources, consulting, training, and mentorship opportunities, XSEDE enables you to Discover More. Get started here.
 
Science Highlights
 
Bridges Simulations Improve Quantum Approach to Computing
 
XSEDE-enabled work establishes benchmark for beating classical computers, optimizes quantum performance
 
 
Quantum computers promise vastly expanded computing power. But they've yet to prove beyond a doubt that they're faster than classical computers for specific tasks. It isn't even completely clear how best to compare the two. Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Intel Labs used the XSEDE-allocated Bridges system at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) to simulate a quantum computer, showing how to optimize a particular approach to quantum computing and benchmarking it successfully against classical computing. The work provides a signpost of both how to compare quantum and classical computers, and how to improve the quantum computer so it can win.
 
 
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Program Announcements
 
Visit XSEDE at PEARC22!
 
 
XSEDE will be at this year's Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference.
 
Check out the link below for a list of XSEDE and ACCESS-related talks, and be sure to stop by our conference table for XSEDE swag and a copy of the new XSEDE Project Highlights book!
 
 
Community Announcements
 
ACCESS Town Hall Recording and Slides
 
 
The National Science Foundation (NSF) held a virtual town hall on June 14 to introduce new information and answer questions about the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services and Support (ACCESS) program, the follow-on to XSEDE that will begin operations in September. The town hall was led by Tom Gulbransen, the NSF program officer for ACCESS, and the program's five principal investigators presented information about each of the different ACCESS tracks. Find an overview as well as links to the recording and slides at the link below.
 
 
News from TACC: XSEDE-Allocated Frontera
 
 
A big welcome to the 2022-2023 Frontera Computational Science Fellows! We caught up with the new cohort to hear about their expectations heading into the program, what excites them most about working on the Frontera supercomputer, and what they hope to accomplish. Read more >>
 
The 2022 Frontera User Meeting will be held in person on August 4-5 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin. The Frontera User Meeting is a valuable opportunity to participate in the community of scientists, engineers, and technologists who use and operate this unique national resource. Read more >>
 
Upcoming ResearchSOC Webinar: Effective Cybersecurity for Research
 
 
Join ResearchSOC on Thursday, August 4 at 2 p.m. ET for a webinar titled "Effective Cybersecurity for Research." This webinar is an overview of the recently published white paper by William Drake and Anurag Shankar, which describes an approach to cybersecurity for research that is showing great promise in breaking the security versus research impasse. A product of years of effort at Indiana University, it focuses exclusively on the researcher and the research mission, reduces the cybersecurity and compliance burden on the researcher, and aims to secure all research. Register at the link below.
 
 
Linux CIusters Institute Workshop
 
 
The Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) will hold an Introductory-level workshop at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH this August 22-26, 2022.
 
If you are a Linux system administrator new to HPC, this is the workshop for you! In just five days you will: 
  • Learn HPC system administration concepts and technologies and how to apply them
  • Get hands-on skills building a small test cluster in lab sessions 
  • Hear real-life stories and get to ask experts questions in panel discussions 
 
 
 
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