BBC News   It is estimated there are five bugs in every thousand lines of code in commercially available software, yet only a small handful of people have the skills to do the mathematical verification process needed to confirm a piece of software is error-free. However, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded a program to find ways of crowdsourcing...
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HPC In the News Millions of Websites Hit by Drupal Hack Attack BBC News The sites use Drupal to manage web content and images, text and video. Drupal has issued a security warning saying users who did not apply a patch for a recently discovered bug should "assume" they have been hacked. It said automated attacks took advantage of the bug and can let attackers take control of a...
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How will the Central Texas region evolve over the next 20 years? A newly developed suite of analytics tools developed in part by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is being used to provide a better understanding of the impacts of various development patterns, such as: What types of housing and business development should be planned? How concentrating growth can maximize...
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HPC Happenings Announcing: Scientific Software Days| December 16-17, 2013 – Austin, Texas For a complete schedule of events, please visit http://scisoftdays.org/pages/2013_details.html?goback=.gde_4178444_member_5809295392285675520# !. Heterogeneous Systems Dominate the Green500 HPCWire This year's Green500 list announced at this week's SC13 Conference in Denver...
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In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses what was hot and trending at the SC13 conference in Denver. Big Data was everywhere on the exhibit floor, but the coming requirements of Exascale spurred a number of low-power supercomputing demonstrations that look to be the wave of the future. To listen to the podcast, please visit ...
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November 20, 2013 – Denver, Colorado Room 501/502, 5:30pm- 7:00pm The ubiquity of today's data is not just transforming what is, it is transforming what will be - laying the groundwork to drive new innovation. Today, research questions are addressed by complex models, by large data analysis tasks, and by sophisticated data visualization techniques, all requiring data. To address the...
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SC13 will feature a new Emerging Technologies exhibit as part of the Technical Program. To learn more, InsideHPC caught up with the innovators behind the curtain, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich and Bob Lucas from ISI. The interview can be found at http://insidehpc.com/2013/10/23/interview-sc13-emerging-technologies-booth-scoop-future/?goback=.gde_1775643_member_5798855253591867396 .
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This video trailer is a teaser for The Observer Effect , a SCI-FI original story by Rich Brueckner that will be featured in the PrintN’Fly Guide to SC13 Denver . Tagline: An accident at an airport security checkpoint sets off a chain of events that cause a grand computer experiment to go awry.” Sponsored by Mellanox , the PrintN’Fly Guide to SC13 Denver will feature interviews on...
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At SC13, XSEDE will be located in Booth 422, just a row over from a main aisle and XSEDE partner, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). XSEDE will promote XSEDE14 and all partners, especially those also on the exhibit floor. We encourage XSEDE partners in attendance at SC13 to also help promote the project. For those of you who attended XSEDE13 in San Diego, this is also...
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HPC Happenings SC13 News: RDA Birds of a Feather November 20, 2013 – Denver, Colorado Room 501/502, 5:30pm- 7:00pm The ubiquity of today's data is not just transforming what is, it is transforming what will be - laying the groundwork to drive new innovation. Today, research questions are addressed by complex models, by large data analysis tasks, and by sophisticated data...
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