August 1 – 5, 2016 - San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, California Applications Deadline - May 6, 2016 Notification - May 27, 2016   The SDSC Summer Institute (SI) 2016: HPC for the Long Tail of Science will provide a week of education and training in High Performance and Data Intensive Computing. The first...
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June 13-24, 2016  - New York, New York The program is designed for graduate students and professionals who have a strong interest in the intersection of computer science, genetics, and medicine. There will be sessions on the human genome, genetic variation, and genome technologies, and there will be introductory sessions on Unix, Python, Galaxy Toolkit, and scripting. This...
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HPC in the News   Supercomputing Coral's Race to Beat Heat Corals can genetically adapt to warmer waters from climate change, scientists say in a study that relied on bioinformatic analysis with supercomputers. Reef-building corals can withstand a small degree of warming. This study with polyps of staghorn coral Acropora millepora across the Great...
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August 10 – 14, 2015 – La Jollla, California `Priority Applications Due - May 29 2015, notification by June 5 Applications are being accepted for the SDSC Summer Institute (SI) 2015: HPC for the Long Tail of Science.  The Summer Institute will provide a weeklong education and training program in High Performance and Data Intensive Computing. The first half of the Summer...
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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 XSEDE14 Hotel and Registration Rates Extended Extended Deadline – June 27, 2014 XSEDE14 kicks off in Atlanta on July 13 and will include high-quality presentations in four technical tracks, tutorials, a visualization showcase, birds-of-a-feather talks, posters, lightning talks, various sponsor activities, a day-long workshop on reproducibility, a job fair and a...
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HPC in the News   MATLAB Selected to Provide HPC Capabilities to Researchers MathWorks today announced that the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) has selected MATLAB and MATLAB Distributed Computing Server as vehicles to enable researchers at all Swedish universities to utilize resources at the national data centers for...
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HPC Happenings   XSEDE Program Forges Industry Alliances The eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is launching a new program – called the Industry Challenge – that connects industry partners with researchers from the open science community in order to enhance product designs and speed time to market. Over at the XSEDE.org website, science writer...
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Internship Description Deadline – April 1, 2014 Faculty who would like to mentor an undergraduate student can post descriptions of available positions. Positions can be intended for a particular applicant or opened to all qualified applicants. Undergraduate students should submit an application for consideration. Internship positions and applications can be submitted at: ...
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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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