HPC in the News   Plants + HPC at NCSA Many fields of research are seeing changes in how that research is conducted thanks to advances in technology. Plant science is one of those, and NCSA is playing a role in two large projects. Historically, successful trait selection in plant breeding has involved manual measurement of individual plants. This...
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HPC in the News Nominations Closing Soon for NVIDIA Global Impact Award Nomination Deadline – October 30, 2015 Researchers worldwide are invited to submit their innovations for the 2016 NVIDIA Global Impact Award – an annual grant of $150,000 for groundbreaking work that addresses the world’s most important social and humanitarian problems. The award will go to an institution...
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  HPC in the News            SDSC's Comet System Offering Virtual Clusters in Current Research Allocation Submission Period September 15 - October 15, 2015 This is a reminder to those who are submitting a research allocation request in the current submission period. SDSC's Comet system is offering a new...
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  HPC in the News Campus Teams to Accelerate Research With Blue Waters Next Proposal Deadline – September 15, 015   Seventeen U of I research teams from a wide range of disciplines have been awarded computational and data resources on the sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA. Blue Waters is one of the world’s most powerful...
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HPC in the News Mark Your Calendar - XSEDE15 July 26-30, 2015 - St. Louis, Missouri   The 4th annual conference will showcase the discoveries, innovations, challenges and achievements of those who utilize and support XSEDE resources and services, as well as other digital resources and services throughout the world. This year's theme is ...
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Application Deadline - February 15, 2015 The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has announced its inaugural UC Graduate Student Summer Fellowship program, providing opportunities for graduate students throughout the University of California system to learn about SDSC’s expertise and utilize the Center’s wide range of resources to advance...
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HPC in the News   University of Hawaii Puts Cray CS Cluster Supercomputer Into Production Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that the University of Hawaii (UH) has put a Cray CS cluster supercomputer into production. The new Cray system is the University’s first centralized high performance computing system, and will be located on the...
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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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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 in the News   Over 100 People from 19 Countries Gain HPC Skills at 5th International HPC Summer School A total of 80 graduate students and post-docs—25 percent of them women—representing 28 nationalities and five continents were selected from more than 500 applicants from educational and research institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United States to...
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