CompuGirls is a National Science Foundation-funded organization based at Arizona State University that provides girls aged eight to 12 from underresourced schools in the Greater Phoenix area and Colorado with activities to develop technical skills and encourage computational thinking in a way that is culturally relevant. CompuGirls provides a one-week program during the fall or spring break,...
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Both novice and veteran researchers were honored for their contributions to high-performance computing in a special awards session at the Supercomputing 2014 (SC14) conference. The ACM Gordon Bell Prize for best performance of a high-performance application was awarded to "Anton 2: Raising the Bar for Performance and Programmability in a Special-Purpose Molecular Dynamics Supercomputer," by...
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HPC in the News   Global Forum: Innovation Creates Opportunity, Causes Disruption Network World The 23rd Global Forum, an annual gathering of technology leaders, was held two weeks ago in Geneva, Switzerland, bringing together representatives from international organizations, vendors, service providers, academia, and government agencies from 35 countries. Among the...
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Join the Community At the annual Supercomputing ’14 conference being held here this week, the first community effort focused on STEM and HPC Entrepreneurship is to be launched at a conference that brings together prospective entrepreneurs with some of the industry’s most celebrated experts and practitioners. Dubbed StartupHPC, the community aims to foster entrepreneurship by providing...
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It’s been four years since the SC supercomputing conference came to the great city of New Orleans. At insideHPC , we are getting ready with an all-new Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC14 New Orleans . To give you a taste of the Local’s Guide to New Orleans Cuisine , please visit http://insidehpc.com/locals-guide-to-new-orleans-dining/ .
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Visit booth #1621 at SC14 to learn more about big data, big computing, and big research at NCSA. Meet staff, see demos, and get the latest on the Blue Waters supercomputer , our collaborations with industry , the National Data Service , and more. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) accelerates discovery and innovation through expertise in high-performance...
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HPC In the News   Cray Launches Hadoop into HPC Airspace HPCwire There has been little doubt that the convergence of traditional high performance computing with advanced analytics has been steadily underway, fed in part by a rush of new tools, frameworks and platforms targeting the big data deluge. And when one thinks about the old guard of supercomputing, Cray is one...
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Researchers and managers alike know that conferences and workshops like SC are critical to an innovation culture such as that reflected in the international supercomputing community. Through sessions, workshops, tutorials, and informal interactions, HPC practitioners get feedback on ideas that shape their future work, and the collective result is that the community as a whole continues to...
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Supercomputing 2014 (SC14) is announcing a new “HPC Matters” plenary that will examine the important roles that high performance computing (HPC) plays in every aspect of society from simplifying manufacturing to tsunami warning systems and hurricane predictions to improving care for cancer patients. “High performance computing is uniquely valuable in the world today,” observes Lawrence...
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HPC In the News SDSC Receives $1.3M Award from the NSF Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego have received a three-year, $1.3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a web-based resource that lets scientists seamlessly share and access preliminary results and transient data from research on a...
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