BBC News   It is estimated there are five bugs in every thousand lines of code in commercially available software, yet only a small handful of people have the skills to do the mathematical verification process needed to confirm a piece of software is error-free. However, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded a program to find ways of crowdsourcing...
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HPC in the News   PRACE Women in HPC Magazine Debuts   The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) today published the first edition of PRACE Women in HPC Magazine 2015 , part of PRACE’s ongoing effort to advance gender and diversity issues within the HPC community. The opening editorial by Dr Sylvie Joussaume, the...
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HPC in the News   XSEDE Campus Champions, Stampede and Lonestar4 Supercomputers of TACC Help Create 3D Images Deep Underground A new work based on 3-D supercomputer simulations of earthquake data has found hidden rock structures deep under East Asia. Researchers from China, Canada, and the U.S. worked together to publish their results in March 2015...
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  XSEDE in the News   XSEDE: More Than Just Supercomputers — It’s How To Use Them, Too! To many familiar with the world of high-performance computing, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) means ‘supercomputers’ and not much more. Often, success stories involve a research team using XSEDE-allocated supercomputers like...
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And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.—Casey at the Bat, Earnest Lawrence Thayer There is rapidly diminishing joy around here. The math is building up, and it doesn’t look great. “It’s common for a guy to be $200,000 up in Texas Hold ’em and still lose,” said Doug Polk, the world’s number one ranked...
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 contest that echoes Deep Blue’s chess victory over Garry Kasparov and Watson beating two Jeopardy! Champions, computer poker software developed at Carnegie Mellon University will challenge four of the world’s best professional poker players in a “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” competition beginning April 24 at Rivers Casino. Over the course of two weeks, the CMU computer program,...
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HPC in the News   XSEDE15 Registration OPEN! Late Registration Begins – June 26, 2015 XSEDE15 takes place July 26-30 at the Marriott Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel in the heart of downtown St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch, the Mississippi River, many nationally recognized Universities and more. XSEDE15, the 4th annual conference, will showcase the discoveries,...
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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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Washington Post Nearly 2,400 MS-DOS games are now available to play -- for free -- in almost any browser on the Internet Archive . Meaning: A lot of people of a certain generation (hi!) are once again able to play the games they played over and over and over again as kids. The Internet Archive is arguably best-known for its Wayback Machine, the neat and useful repository of home...
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HPC in the News NCSA on why #HPCMatters Why does high-performance computing matter? Because science matters! Discovery matters! Human beings are seekers, questers, questioners. And when we get answers, we ask bigger questions. HPC extends our reach, putting more knowledge, more discovery, and more innovation within our grasp. With HPC, the future is ours to create! #HPCMatters! To...
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