This year’s conference evokes the basic yet irrefutable concept that diversity is simply the smarter choice. Whether we seek innovation, intelligence, creativity, strength or beauty of ideas, the best outcomes will come from a diverse set of perspectives, a diverse set of experiences, and a diverse set of people. Accordingly, we target a conference program diverse, yet balanced, in every...
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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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March 4-5, 2015 – Houston, Texas The Rice University Oil and Gas High Performance Computing (OG HPC) Workshop, hosted annually at Rice University, is the premier meeting place for networking and discussion focused on computing and information technology challenges and needs in the oil and gas industry, high-end computing and information technology continues to stand out across the...
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HPC in the News   Registration Open for 2015 Oil & Gas HPC Workshop March 4-5, 2015 – Houston, Texas   The Rice University Oil and Gas High Performance Computing (OG HPC) Workshop, hosted annually at Rice University, is the premier meeting place for networking and discussion focused on computing and information technology challenges and...
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Registration is now open for the 2015 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, scheduled for February 18-21, 2015 in Boston, Mass. The goal of the Tapia Conferences is to bring together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals in computing from all backgrounds and ethnicities to: Celebrate...
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Richard Tapia was interviewed on HISD’s HISD Up Close with Juliet Stipeche. To view the interview, please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MswIZQuMpuUAdditionally,  Professor Tapia has being named one of the 2014 Mayor’s Hispanic Heritage Award recipients. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his commitment to higher education, college readiness and promoting greater...
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HPC in the News   $1.5 Million Grant to NCSA to Put Big Data on Big Screen Truth is, supercomputing is part of everyday life, providing numerical models for the car you drive, the energy that powers your house, the weather forecasts you rely on and the financial systems that control the economy. "All of those rely on computations run on computers," says UI Professor Donna...
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Hummingbirds can hover so well they seem to float in mid-air. With the help of a supercomputer, Vanderbilt University mechanical engineer Haoxiang Luo has fleshed out some of the secrets of how hummingbirds hover, flight that's more similar to that of an insect than the typical bird. Luo and his colleagues published their results June 2014 in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. They...
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February 18-21, 2015 – Boston, Massachusetts Submission Deadline – August 8, 2014 Scholarship Deadline – September 2, 2014 The Tapia Conference  brings together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals in computing from all backgrounds and ethnicities to: Celebrate  the diversity that exists in computing; Connect...
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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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