A good example that we live in the era of Big Data is that, as we’ve moved from super-8-film home movies to ever-present smartphones, we’ve all begun to generate so much visual imagery that we seldom look at a given video more than once. Worse, when we do want to find a video clip, it’s lost among thousands of others. Machine intelligence researchers Shoou-I Yu and Lu Jiang, working with...
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 HPC in the News   Top HPC Centers Meet in Barcelona at JLESC Top researchers from six of the largest supercomputing centers got together in Barcelona at the beginning of this month for the Joint Laboratory for Extreme ‐ Scale Computing (JLESC) to discuss the challenges for future supercomputers. Marc Snir highlighted US Government programs to promote...
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HPC in the News 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing October 14-16, 2015 - Houston, Texas Registration Opens – June 2, 2015 The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is the World's Largest Gathering of Women Technologists. It is produced by the Anita Borg Institute and presented in partnership with ACM. For complete information, please visit  ...
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Before there was a Milky Way galaxy, a solar system or planet Earth, the Universe — as if taking a nap after the birth effort of the Big Bang — was wrapped in a blanket of cosmic fog. There were as yet no stars nor galaxies. Cosmologically speaking, it was the Dark Ages.  Renyue Center, Princeton University (top) and Hy Trac , Carnegie Mellon University  Initially, in that first...
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HPC Happenings   Data Management in Times of Disaster HPCwire When natural disaster strikes – be it a flood, an earthquake or a tsunami – every second counts. Just as emergency teams must be ready to go in a moment’s notice so must critical data management systems. This important topic, an essential element of civil protection around the world, is the focus of a...
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JANUARY 2013 No Women in CS? Well, Not for Long TechCrunch Less than 21 percent of undergraduate computer science (CS) majors at Stanford University are female, and many students say stereotypes, misconceptions, and lack of confidence cause women to drop the introductory CS lasses in large numbers. Research indicates that the two biggest factors for the dearth of female CS...
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HPC Happenings NSF Announces Two New Expeditions in Computing Awards The  National Science Foundation’s (NSF)   Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)  today  announced  two new  Expeditions in Computing  awards, providing each selected project team $10 million in funding over five years, representing the single...
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HPC Happenings Virtual School Offers Two Summer Computational Science Courses Data Intensive Summer School (July 8-10, 2013) Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors (July 29-Aug. 2, 2013) Graduate students, post-docs and professionals from academia, government, and industry are invited to sign up now for two summer school courses offered by the ...
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TACC Plays Matchmaker for Drug  Discovery In a world of potential compounds, how does a scientist find the one drug molecule that might match and bind to a disease molecule? Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are working on faster ways for a supercomputer to find matching molecules using nanoscale images of the molecules. According to J. Tinsley Oden, director of the...
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