Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth are examining the possibility of using smartphone processors as energy-efficient alternatives to current supercomputer components. The team led by professor Gaurav Khanna, associate director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research, has a background in finding creative alternatives to standard supercomputers....
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A team of Iowa State University nuclear physicists is preparing to scale up its computer codes for Cori, the next-generation supercomputer being developed by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. Iowa State’s Pieter Maris and James Vary want to use the supercomputer to study the basic physics of the burning sun and exploding stars. Those studies could one day lead to...
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HPC In the News SDSC Receives $1.3M Award from the NSF Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego have received a three-year, $1.3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a web-based resource that lets scientists seamlessly share and access preliminary results and transient data from research on a...
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HPC In the News   Big Data Needs Big Funding: NSF's Jahanian Makes the Case Farnam Jahanian, out-going U.S. National Science Foundation assistant director for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, recently discussed the ways society will come to rely on a massive surge of new data that will require significant investments in cyber infrastructure...
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HPC Happenings   Hobbyists Recreate Lost Cray Supercomputer HPCwire early four decades ago, the pioneering computer architect Seymour Cray created one of the most successful and iconic supercomputers ever made, the Cray-1. This 5.5-ton C-shaped tower was a popular sight in laboratories since its release in 1976 throughout the 1980s, but eventually advances in...
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HPC Happenings   PRACEdays14 - PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference 2014 
 May 20-22, 2014 – Barcelona, Spain In 2014, PRACE will organize its first Scientific and Industrial Conference – the first edition of the PRACE days - under the motto HPC for Innovation – when Science meets Industry . The conference combines the previously separate PRACE...
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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 Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering . These Virtual School courses...
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HPC Happenings   Writing a Successful XSEDE Allocation Proposal June 12, 2013 – 2:00pm-3:00pm ET This short webinar will introduce users to the process of writing an XSEDE allocation proposal, and cover the elements that make a proposal successful. This webinar is recommended for users making the jump from a startup allocation to a research allocation, and is highly...
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HPC Happenings Purdue University Hosts CERIAS 14th Annual Information Security Symposium April 3-4, 2-13 - West Lafayette, Indiana Tired of all those conferences that feature the same old, same old -- military people talking about cyberwar and dire forecasts, and others talking about commercial opportunities and how wonderful their technologies are? Come hear experts talk about...
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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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