HPC in the News   NSF Extends the Kraken Project: Award Allows Continued Advanced Computing Support of National Research The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) $3 million to continue to provide advanced computing resources for researchers in science and engineering across the country...
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) $3 million to continue to provide advanced computing resources for researchers in science and engineering across the country through July 2016. This extension brings the total award for the Kraken project to more than $84.5 million since its inception in 2007. “We are very happy to be...
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HPC in the News Skilled Foreign Workers a Boon to Pay, Study Finds The Wall Street Journal Three academic economists recently conducted a study examining wage data and immigration in 219 U.S. metropolitan areas from 1990 to 2010 and found that cities seeing the biggest gains of foreign-born workers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) saw wages climb...
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JANUARY 2013 No Women in CS? Well, Not for Long TechCrunch Less than 21 percent of undergraduate computer science (CS) majors at Stanford University are female, and many students say stereotypes, misconceptions, and lack of confidence cause women to drop the introductory CS lasses in large numbers. Research indicates that the two biggest factors for the dearth of female CS...
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HPC Happenings Applications for Broader Engagement Program Due by June 19, 2013 The SC13 Broader Engagement Program is designed to diversify the pool of talent in supercomputing by introducing, engaging and supporting students and professionals belonging to underrepresented groups. Competitive grants are made available to support the travel to, and participation in, the technical...
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HPC Happenings SC13 - Technical Paper Submission Deadline Extended to April 26, 2013 The Technical Papers Program at SC is the leading venue for presenting the highest-quality original research, from the foundations of HPC to its emerging frontiers. Papers presented at SC have to pass a high bar – only 21% of submissions were accepted for SC12. The SC13 Technical Papers program...
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HPC Happenings Open Science Data Cloud Fellowship Applications due April 15, 2013 Travel abroad with OSDC-PIRE Fellowship Summer 2013 The  Open Science Data Cloud PIRE project  provides international research and education experiences through training and study at universities and research institutes around the world with leading scientists in the field of computing. Our...
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XSEDE Happenings XSEDE12 – It’s the Place to Be!! ·  There is still time to register! ALSO: ONE-DAY REGISTRATION now available for Tuesday-Thursday, July 17-19, at $250 per day. ·  XSEDE12 gratefully acknowledges media support from  HPCwire and International Science Grid This Week . ·  Appro will hold a random drawing for a $200 amazon.com gift...
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Upcoming XSEDE Conferences and Workshops University of Tennessee and ORNL Partner to Host Linux Clusters Institute July 4-6, 2012 - Montpellier, France HPC@LR is organizing this workshop in partnership with IBM, Mount Sinai Medical School, the Joint Institute of Computational Sciences of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  The workshop is offered...
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XSEDE Happenings XSEDE Allocating Time to HPC Projects with Shared Memory Times are changing for HPC (high-performance computing) research, as non-traditional fields of study have begun taking advantage of powerful HPC tools. This was part of the plan when the National Science Foundation’s XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) program launched in July 2011....
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