NASA Awards $1.25 Million to IU for Polar Mission Data
Indiana University IT experts will manage critical climate data from two NASA polar missions, again demonstrating IU's advanced data management and storage solutions for climate scientists.
View ArticlePodcast: AMD Troubles; SC12 Winners and Losers
AMD is rumored to be looking for a buyer. And, as SC12 wraps up, Addison and Michael suggest some of the big winners and losers from the conference.
View ArticleU Texas Team Conquers SC12's “Student Cluster Challenge”
The University of Texas at Austin team, mentored by staff of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), won the seventh annual Student Cluster Competition (SCC) this year at the Supercomputing ’12...
View ArticleDOE Pushes Back Plans for Exascale Supercomputing
First US exaflop super might not boot up until 2022.
View ArticleDOE Labs Set Records with IBM Blue Gene/Q
Two teams of Department of Energy scientists have exceeded a sustained performance level of 10 petaflops on the Sequoia supercomputer at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Lawrence...
View ArticleCMU, PSC Awarded $9.3 Million for Bio Systems Modeling
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Carnegie Mellon and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center have been awarded a five-year, $9.3 million grant from the NIH to establish the Biomedical...
View ArticlePodcast: What China's New Leadership Means for HPC; The Race to Exascale
Addison and Michael offer some perspective on what China's revamped leadership might mean to the country's HPC efforts. They also discuss why the US DOE is extending its timeline for exascale computing.
View ArticleUK Takes Academic Supercomputing to Next Level
The University of Kentucky commemorated 25 years of academic supercomputing with the announcement of the most powerful supercomputer in the university's history and the award of a $1 million "cyber...
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DOE Commissions Extreme Computing Study
The Council on Competitiveness has been awarded a $914,000 grant from the Department of Energy to explore the implications of the emerging post-petaflop era and the challenges associated with extreme...
View ArticleEmcien Taps Big Data Leader for Advisory Board
Emcien Corp. announced the addition of internationally renowned High-Performance Computing luminary Dr. David A. Bader to the Emcien Advisory Board.
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Neutron Science and Supercomputing Come Together at Oak Ridge National Lab
As the data sets generated by the increasingly powerful neutron scattering instruments at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) grow ever more massive, the facility's users require significant...
View ArticleCouncil on Competitiveness Defends TOP500 Usefulness
Comments made by Blue Waters Project Director Bill Kramer questioning the continued relevance of the TOP500 list prompt this letter to the editor.
View ArticleScience,Technology Will Suffer If US Goes Over Fiscal Cliff
Automatic spending cuts would take a bite out of government-funded research.
View ArticleInfinera Delivers 100GbE to DOE's ESnet
Infinera announced the deployment of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services on the Long Island MAN portion of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) with the Infinera DTN...
View ArticleGov. Kasich 'Lights Up' Ohio's Broadband Pipeline
During an unveiling of the completed upgrades to OARnet's ultra high-speed fiber optic network backbone, Governor John Kasich showcased how the technology will create and enhance academic partnerships...
View ArticleTop 10 Hits and Misses for 2012
In the world of high performance computing, a lot of the important news this year revolved around heterogeneous computing, big data, and HPC interconnects. Two vendors that perhaps embodied those...
View ArticlePodcast: BP Preps for Petascale Machine; HPC Peers Over Fiscal Cliff
Addison and Michael talk about a new petascale supercomputer that British multinational BP is planning to install. They also discuss the possible fallout in the HPC community if the US government goes...
View ArticleORNL Highlights 2012 Supercomputing Achievements
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory regained the lead in high-performance computing, enjoyed record-setting recognition for its research and became a showpiece for renewable energy...
View ArticlePRACE Announces HPC Competition for End-User Applications
PRACE has announced the launch of the second round of its Competition for the Most Innovative HPC End-User Application in Europe.
View ArticlePolish HPC Consortium Boosts Prospects for Local Scientists
Poland is not usually thought of as a supercomputing powerhouse. Until recently, most of the local research and academic centers housed only modest-sized HPC clusters for Polish researchers. That is...
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