Ilkay Altintas has been appointed Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, effective immediately. Altintas, who joined SDSC in 2001, will lead the strategic coordination of all computational data science activities at SDSC while overseeing application-based solutions and their related technologies. Altintas was also...
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A careful distinction between quality and quantity is key to promoting the future growth of the computing and information field. Toward that end, Batya Friedman , Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington , and  Fred B. Schneider , Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University , put together a Best Practices Memo that advocates...
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HPC in the News   PRACE Completes First Phase of Pre-Commercial Procurement   PRACE is pleased to announce that Phase I of its Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP) was completed on March 9, 2015. PRACE started this pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to obtain R&D services, which should result in future PRACE HPC systems to become more energy...
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HPC in the News   Spread the Word: Blue Waters Internship Program Application Deadline - March 20, 2015   As part of the Blue Waters efforts to motivate and train the next generation of supercomputing researchers, the program is sponsoring 20 undergraduate research interns each year. The goal is to engage undergraduate students in...
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  HPC in the News   Weekend Workshop Hones Researchers’ Computational Skills A new skillset is in demand among scientists: As the size of datasets increases with enhanced data collection technologies, researchers must be proficient not only in their selected field of study, but also in the ability to use computers to analyze, interpret, and...
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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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Submission Deadline – August 15, 2014 Editor’s Note: We are proud to announce that SDSC’s high school interns have formed a team and plan to enter this competition. We will be sure to le t you know the outcome. TSA Pre✓™ is an expedited screening program that allows low-risk travelers to experience expedited, more efficient security screening. This queue line provides a quicker...
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Computational Research Features from Across the Country and Around the World –  Highlights of 2012 from XSEDE Partners and Collaborators Climate Science Triggers Torrent of Big Data Challenges for ORNL Researchers Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) supercomputers running models to assess climate change ramifications and mitigation tactics are rapidly generating a wide...
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HPC Happenings XSEDE13 Attendee Poll – Are You Bringing a Spouse or Children to XSEDE13? Response Deadline – December 9, 2012 XSEDE is excited to be bringing XSEDE13 to San Diego in July. To help with the planning, we have created a poll to gauge interest in activities for attendees' spouses, significant others, and children. Please respond to the poll at
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HPC Happenings New HPC University Site Debuts The HPC University (HPCU) is a virtual organization whose primary goal is to provide a cohesive, persistent, and sustainable on-line environment to share educational and training materials for a continuum of high performance computing environments that span desktop computing capabilities to the highest-end of computing facilities...
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