September 14-17, 2016 - Austin, Texas The Tapia conference has always been a premier venue to acknowledge, to promote and to celebrate diversity. Given the current global academic, professional and societal climates, the Tapia 2016 conference theme, " Diversity Matters! ", recognizes the Tapia Conference's commitment to diversity in all its wonderful forms. We target a program...
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  HPC in the News           XSEDE, UC Berkeley Team Up to Offer Online Course Course Duration - January 20- May 8, 2016   XSEDE Seeking Partner Institutions to Offer Course in Applications of Parallel Computing   XSEDE project and the University of California, Berkeley are offering an...
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Rice University scientists have developed a big data technique that could have a significant impact on health care. The Rice lab of bioengineer Amina Qutub designed an algorithm called “progeny clustering” that is being used in a hospital study to identify which treatments should be given to children with leukemia. Clustering is important for its ability to reveal information in complex sets...
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While the human ability to write evolved from the ability to speak, writing and speaking are supported by entirely different parts of the brain, according to new research from Rice University, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.  The research shows that it is possible for stroke victims who cannot speak a grammatically correct sentence to write it perfectly, and vice...
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June 1- 4, 2015 – Rice University, Houston, Texas The 2015 HPC Summer Institute is organized by the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University in an effort to address a growing demand for training and education in high-performance computing and scientific programming. While the main driver for the Summer Institute has been participation from the oil and gas...
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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   NSF CISE Posts Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs Program to Spur the Development of New Big Data Partnerships Among Government, University, and Industry CCCBlog Last Friday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) announced the Big Data Regional Innovation...
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Application Deadline - March 31, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. (CST) Notification of Award- April 10, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. (CST) XSEDE, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. Are you interested in learning more about high performance computing (HPC) and the...
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March 26, 2015  Thursday, 4:00 PM Central Time   McMurtry Auditorium  Abstract : In my years of hiring various administrative positions I have noticed that many students, but in particular women and minorities, seemed to make the same mistakes when interviewing. Moreover, they seemed not to be aware that their behavior and what they said are being evaluated in such...
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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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