Los Alamos National Laboratory mechanical and thermal engineering researchers’ efforts to solve the complex problem of how ocean currents affect the infrastructure of floating oilrigs and their computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical simulations received recognition from ANSYS Inc., a company that provides computer-based engineering simulation capabilities.” Because energy resources are...
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HPC in the News Skilled Foreign Workers a Boon to Pay, Study Finds The Wall Street Journal Three academic economists recently conducted a study examining wage data and immigration in 219 U.S. metropolitan areas from 1990 to 2010 and found that cities seeing the biggest gains of foreign-born workers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) saw wages climb...
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HPC in the News   Need a Competitive Internship in HPC? Look No Further Than TACC The internships are funded through TACC's STAR Scholars Internship Program, which aims to bolster a computationally literate workforce in HPC and scientific visualization. By pairing each scholar with a TACC mentor to work on a specific project, the students acquire in-depth knowledge and...
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HPC in the News Registration for XSEDE14 Now Open July 13-18, 2014 – Atlanta, Georgia Registration is now open for XSEDE14, the annual conference that brings together the extended community of individuals interested in advancing research cyberinfrastructure and integrated digital services for the benefit of science and society. XSEDE14 will take place at the Atlanta Marriott...
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April 21-22, 2014 – Los Alamos, New Mexico More than 250 New Mexico students and their teachers will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the 24th annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge expo and awards ceremony. “The goal of the year-long competition is to increase knowledge of science and computing, expose students and teachers to computers and applied mathematics, and instill...
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HPC Happenings   NCSA Blue Waters Symposium for Petascale Science and Beyond May 12-15, 2014 – Champaign, Illinois Science teams from across the nation use Blue Waters to simulate the evolution of the cosmos, delve into fine-scale processes in molecular dynamics and quantum physics, and solve many research challenges in between. Many of these projects require a large...
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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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Research Features From Across the Country and Around the World   Blue Waters: Security at Scale HPCwire If there's one mandate that all IT and business professionals can agree on, it's the need for security. For the largest systems in the world, keeping IT assets safe presents a unique set of challenges. Take the NCSA Blue Waters supercomputer as an example. The...
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