HPC in the News        \   Blue Waters Seeking Partner Institutions to Offer Course on Designing and Building Applications for Extreme Scale Systems The Blue Waters project and the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana are offering an online course on Designing and Building Applications for Extreme Scale Systems for...
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, is participating in a new program to add technology-oriented courses to the online learning network Coursera to better prepare job seekers in the highly specialized tech sector. Coursera last month launched its Global Skills Initiative, bringing top companies and universities together to produce a set of...
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HPC in the News   PRACE Completes First Phase of Pre-Commercial Procurement   PRACE is pleased to announce that Phase I of its Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP) was completed on March 9, 2015. PRACE started this pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to obtain R&D services, which should result in future PRACE HPC systems to become more energy...
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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   Over 100 People from 19 Countries Gain HPC Skills at 5th International HPC Summer School A total of 80 graduate students and post-docs—25 percent of them women—representing 28 nationalities and five continents were selected from more than 500 applicants from educational and research institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United States to...
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HPC in the News XSEDE14 Hotel and Registration Rates Extended Extended Deadline – June 27, 2014 XSEDE14 kicks off in Atlanta on July 13 and will include high-quality presentations in four technical tracks, tutorials, a visualization showcase, birds-of-a-feather talks, posters, lightning talks, various sponsor activities, a day-long workshop on reproducibility, a job fair and a...
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Researchers at Columbia University's Teachers College have released a comprehensive study on massive open online courses (MOOCs) suggesting the technology is not yet attaining its goals. Based on 83 interviews with those involved with MOOCs at 62 primarily U.S. institutions, the study features 13 case studies showing the successful implementation of MOOCs to address institutional goals....
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Big Data Summer School, June 30 - July , 2014 - U Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Harness the Power of GPUs: Introduction to GPGPU Programming, June 16-20, 2014 The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering is looking forward to another successful summer school program providing undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs,   faculty and professionals the skills...
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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   Intel Etches HPC Niche with Xeon E7 V2 HPCwire Intel has finally pulled the lid off their Westmere-followup processors with the new Xeon E7 v2 series, which while generally targeting enterprise big data and analytics workloads, offers far more for HPC than might meet the eye. Despite the range of targeted application areas, the 22 nanometer process,...
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