HPC in the News        \   Blue Waters Seeking Partner Institutions to Offer Course on Designing and Building Applications for Extreme Scale Systems The Blue Waters project and the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana are offering an online course on Designing and Building Applications for Extreme Scale Systems for...
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HPC in the News   NCSA’S Merle Giles Co-Edits Book on Industrial Impact of HPC Merle E. Giles, director of Private Sector Programs and Economic Impact at NCSA, and Anwar Osseyran, director of the Dutch HPC and e-cience center SURFsara, are co-editors of a new book on the impact high-performance computing in industry. The book,  Industrial Applications of...
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HPC in the News   $1.5 Million Grant to NCSA to Put Big Data on Big Screen Truth is, supercomputing is part of everyday life, providing numerical models for the car you drive, the energy that powers your house, the weather forecasts you rely on and the financial systems that control the economy. "All of those rely on computations run on computers," says UI Professor Donna...
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HPC Happenings IEEE Launches 400GbE Task Force The Ethernet Alliance, a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies today offered its congratulations to the IEEE 802.3 Working Group and the IEEE 400Gb/s Study Group on the formation of the IEEE P802.3bs Task Force. The new group is chartered with the development of the IEEE P802.3bs...
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $50 million to a multi-institution collaborative headquartered at the University of Arizona’s (UA) BIO5 Institute to create a national cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences, which includes the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin as a key partner. This renewal grant for the iPlant Collaborative...
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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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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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The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) are conducting a Cloud Use Survey to collect compelling research use cases of cloud computing. Results will be used to formulate a cloud strategy for XSEDE. The survey is open at xsede.org/CloudSurvey, and all researchers who have used the cloud...
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Dear Colleagues, I'm writing to you today to ask for your assistance in a very important NSF-XSEDE effort. For those of you that do not know me, my name is David Lifka and I am the Director of the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing and the Weill Cornell Medical College Director of Research Computing. I also serve as the coordinator for the XSEDE Architecture and...
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