Application Deadline – April 4, 2016 At least 80 percent of the capacity of Blue Waters—about 150 million node-hours each year—is available to scientists and engineers across the country through the National Science Foundation’s  Petascale Computing Resource Allocation program . In 2013, a new NSF-funded petascale computing system, Blue Waters, was deployed at the University of...
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Application Deadline – April 4, 2016 At least 80 percent of the capacity of Blue Waters—about 150 million node-hours each year—is available to scientists and engineers across the country through the National Science Foundation’s  Petascale Computing Resource Allocation program . In 2013, a new NSF-funded petascale computing system, Blue Waters, was deployed at the University of...
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Submission Deadline - November 11, 2015 The PRACE 12th Call for Proposals is open to Project Access: Proposals can be based on a 12-months schedule, or, for Multi-year Projects, on a 24- or 36-months schedule. The allocation of awarded resources is made for 1 year at a time with provisional allocations awarded for the 2nd and 3rd year. Reserves 0.5% of the total resources available for...
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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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October 7, 2015 -  12:00pm CT Categories: Training, Education & Outreach, General User News This short webinar will introduce users to the process of writing an XSEDE allocation proposal, and cover the elements that make a proposal successful. This webinar is recommended for users making the jump from a startup allocation to a research allocation, and is highly recommended...
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Submission Deadlines: Abstract Due - July 8, 2015 Proposal Due - July 15, 2015 Notification: July 31, 2015 The incorporation of parallel and distributed computing (PDC) technology into the daily lives of users via their wireless networks, smartphones, social networking sites, cloud, etc., has made it imperative to impart a broad-based skill set in PDC technology at various levels...
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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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First, Deep Blue came for Kasparov, besting the world’s top-ranked chess player in 1997. Then Watson beat Jeopardy!’s best and brightest in 2011. Now Claudico, a program developed at Carnegie Mellon University using high performance computing thanks to an XSEDE allocation on Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Blacklight system, will take on the next great challenge in machine learning:...
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With concern about climate change growing, understanding how plants adapt to their environment has become an important focus for research. Which genes govern drought resistance? Which genes respond to weather and climate conditions? A recent study  relied on programming by Weijia Xu , group leader for the data mining and statistics group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)...
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March 25, 2015 – 10:00am PT, 12:00pm CT, 1:00pm ET This short webinar will introduce users to the process of writing an XSEDE allocation proposal, and cover the elements that make a proposal successful. This webinar is recommended for users making the jump from a startup allocation to a research allocation, and is highly recommended for new campus champions. Registration: ...
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