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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Harvard Crimson Harvard University's Women in Computer Science group this year launched the WECode conference, which took place Feb. 8-9. Women from 40 colleges and universities were in attendance, according to WECode chief organizer JN Fang. Fang was inspired to organize a coding conference for women after reading "Lean In," a book by Facebook chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl K....
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Purdue University News Purdue University researchers want to develop a powerful Web-based system that enables people around the world to better predict natural disasters. The project will add geospatial data hosting, processing, and sharing capabilities to Purdue's HUBzero, a platform for building future-rich websites enabling research and education. The researchers say that if the...
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HPC Happenings Share STEM Day - May 9, 2013 CollegeWeekLive, the leading channel where students and colleges meet online, will be hosting STEM Day , a free online college fair scheduled for Thursday, May 9th from 2:00 to 10:00 PM EDT. This free virtual event offers high school students interested in science, technology, engineering, or math the opportunity to chat live online with...
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The U.S. Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has acquired a 500-teraflop SGI supercomputer to advance energy and environmental research. Slated to go live in early spring, the High-Performance Computer for Energy and the Environment (HPCEE) has 24,192 2.6-gHz Intel Xeon E5-2670 cores with 48,384 GB of memory in 1,512 computational nodes. NETL's Chris...
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