HPC in the News   Supercomputing Coral's Race to Beat Heat Corals can genetically adapt to warmer waters from climate change, scientists say in a study that relied on bioinformatic analysis with supercomputers. Reef-building corals can withstand a small degree of warming. This study with polyps of staghorn coral Acropora millepora across the Great...
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  HPC in the News            SDSC's Comet System Offering Virtual Clusters in Current Research Allocation Submission Period September 15 - October 15, 2015 This is a reminder to those who are submitting a research allocation request in the current submission period. SDSC's Comet system is offering a new...
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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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HPC in the News   XSEDE Campus Champions, Stampede and Lonestar4 Supercomputers of TACC Help Create 3D Images Deep Underground A new work based on 3-D supercomputer simulations of earthquake data has found hidden rock structures deep under East Asia. Researchers from China, Canada, and the U.S. worked together to publish their results in March 2015...
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HPC in the News   XSEDE15 Registration OPEN! Late Registration Begins – June 26, 2015 XSEDE15 takes place July 26-30 at the Marriott Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel in the heart of downtown St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch, the Mississippi River, many nationally recognized Universities and more. XSEDE15, the 4th annual conference, will showcase the discoveries,...
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HPC in the News   NCSA’S Merle Giles Co-Edits Book on Industrial Impact of HPC Merle E. Giles, director of Private Sector Programs and Economic Impact at NCSA, and Anwar Osseyran, director of the Dutch HPC and e-cience center SURFsara, are co-editors of a new book on the impact high-performance computing in industry. The book,  Industrial Applications of...
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HPC in the News   Need a Competitive Internship in HPC? Look No Further Than TACC The internships are funded through TACC's STAR Scholars Internship Program, which aims to bolster a computationally literate workforce in HPC and scientific visualization. By pairing each scholar with a TACC mentor to work on a specific project, the students acquire in-depth knowledge and...
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HPC in the News   MATLAB Selected to Provide HPC Capabilities to Researchers MathWorks today announced that the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) has selected MATLAB and MATLAB Distributed Computing Server as vehicles to enable researchers at all Swedish universities to utilize resources at the national data centers for...
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HPC Happenings   Data Management in Times of Disaster HPCwire When natural disaster strikes – be it a flood, an earthquake or a tsunami – every second counts. Just as emergency teams must be ready to go in a moment’s notice so must critical data management systems. This important topic, an essential element of civil protection around the world, is the focus of a...
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HPC Happenings   Women in Computer Science Group Launches Inaugural Conference Harvard Crimson Harvard University's Women in Computer Science group this year launched the WECode conference, which took place Feb. 8-9. Women from 40 colleges and universities were in attendance, according to WECode chief organizer JN Fang. Fang was inspired to organize a coding conference...
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