The north of Sweden combines a cold climate, an abundance of renewable electric power, and vast natural resources - all in all making it a highly - desireable spot for any kind
of high performance computing (HPC), including bitcoin mining.
The CSM division provides scientific and technological solutions through the integration
of high performance computing, data intensive computing, computational sciences, mathematics, scalable data management, and bioinformatics to advance the laboratory's mission areas.
And we're going to fund the frontier
of high performance computing as well to give the best tools to our designers and engineers.
Not exact matches
CloudSigma, out
of Zurich, is another interesting provider with specialty in
high -
performance computing of the type used by scientists and medical researchers.
Backblaze founder and CEO Gleb Budman acknowledges that B2 probably won't win over the majority
of storage workloads now running on other platforms, especially if users need very
high performance or
computing located near their data.
The Defense Department bought the supercomputers as part
of its so - called
high -
performance computing modernization program, said the program's chief
of staff, Kevin Newmeyer.
It has been relegated to many narrow use cases involving pattern recognition and prediction (some
of which are very valuable and useful, such as improving cancer detection, identifying financial risk and fraud, and other
high performance computing applications), but it has not developed a general «understanding»
of human interactions, human emotions, speech patterns and human responses to information.
The company outlined growth opportunities around
high performance computing, graphics virtualization and gaming, against the backdrop
of concerns surrounding its PC OEM business.
The combination
of mathematical modeling and
high -
performance computing may be the only way to overcome the complexity
of cancer, which is not one disease but more than a hundred, each with numerous sub-types.
«Advances in
high performance computing are finally allowing us to understand the explosive death
of stars, and this study shows that such models are needed to figure out new ways to measure dark energy.»
In particular, McMaster is one
of the six principal sponsoring universities
of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto and a primary member
of the SHARCNET
high -
performance computing consortium.
Song studies
high performance computing at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with the goal
of making computers smaller, faster and more energy efficient.
Rodgers adds: «It's essential to demonstrate that
high -
performance computing simulations can generate realistic results and our team will work with engineers to evaluate the
computed motions, so they can be used to understand the resulting distribution
of risk to infrastructure and ultimately to design safer energy systems, buildlings and other infrastructure.»
«Previously, there wasn't enough computer power to do these kinds
of time - accurate simulations in large computational domains, but with the power
of high -
performance computing [HPC] and Titan, we are achieving more than was previously thought possible.»
The work also used resources
of the
Compute and Data Environment for Science at ORNL, a fully integrated infrastructure offering scalable
computing, software support and
high -
performance cloud storage services and the Oak Ridge Leadership
Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office
of Science User Facility.
«This is an extremely important step for
high performance computing in the U.S.,» says Horst Simon, deputy director
of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
He was fascinated by a talk one
of his engineering professors gave about
high -
performance computing in the Human Genome Project, and he began to see other connections between biology and engineering.
Using
high -
performance computing, a group
of researchers at the US Department
of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) provided insight into how this might be accomplished, simulating a well - established genetic modification to the lignin
of an aspen tree in atomic - level detail.
Jack Dongarra, a supercomputing expert at the University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the new U.S. plans come partially as a response to concern over China's surge in
high -
performance computing.
To sort through the vast amounts
of data, the researchers took advantage
of Quest, a
high -
performance computing system at Northwestern.
The increases come on the heels
of $ 244 million that the government granted as part
of the stimulus package for
high -
performance computing for climate modeling and climate sensors.
To better understand how galactic wind affects star formation in galaxies, a two - person team led by the University
of California, Santa Cruz, turned to
high -
performance computing at the Oak Ridge Leadership
Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department
of Energy (DOE) Office
of Science User Facility located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
The future
of manufacturing depends on a number
of technological breakthroughs in robotics, sensors and
high -
performance computing, to name a few.
Through an NSF - IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education Research and Training) grant from the National Science Foundation, Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan, has funding to support graduate research fellowships in the applications
of high -
performance computing.
There are hundreds
of students across the country with the skill set to be successful in
high -
performance computing, but the only way to achieve success or reach this potential is to «get in the game.»
Although the placement
of high school students is limited to the Detroit metropolitan area, opportunities in
high -
performance computing do exist for undergraduate (summers) and graduate (year - round) students at WSU.
In fact, during the summer 2002 program, a Detroit
high school student conducted research in
high -
performance computing and simulation dealing with the fragmentation
of protonated diglycine (a small peptide ion) when it collides with a diamond surface.
The ability to ask these kinds
of questions and get answers is a relatively recent innovation that requires the
high performance computing infrastructure OSC gives us.
The work being undertaken at the Data Center at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) will focus on the impact
of new storage technologies as well as the convergence
of high -
performance computing and Big Data.
Big Data thus presents complex challenges for software developers, as the necessary algorithms can only be created with the aid
of specialist skills in a wide range
of different fields, such as statistics, machine learning, visualization, databases, and
high -
performance computing.
Eileen Kraemer, the C. Tycho Howle Director
of the School
of Computing, said that the research highlights Clemson's strengths in data - enabled science and
high -
performance computing.
A Florida State University
high -
performance computing researcher has predicted a physical effect that would help physicists and astronomers provide fresh evidence
of the correctness
of Einstein's general theory
of relativity.
Other U.S. - based members include Jon Kaas, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University; Victor Nussenzweig, a Brazilian - born infectious disease specialist at New York University; Robert Bishop, former CEO
of Silicon Graphics; and William Feiereisen, a
high performance computing expert at Intel.
The successful combination
of superconductivity and spin could lead to a revolution in
high -
performance computing, by dramatically reducing energy consumption.
She previously founded and ran a
high -
performance computing center at the University
of Arkansas.
Internally, GE's experience with the OLCF's world - class
computing resources and expertise helps the company understand and evaluate the value
of larger - scale
high -
performance computing, supporting the case for future investment in GE's in - house capabilities.
The assembly
of the Schmidtea mediterranea genome involved eight terabytes
of data that took the
high -
performance computing cluster at the HITS three weeks to complete.
Using
high -
performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency
of plants offers the best hope
of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.
The team used
high performance computing resources at two DOE scientific user facilities: EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at PNNL, and NERSC, the National Energy Research
Computing Center, a DOE Office
of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
«The overall ACME project not only involves developing these
high - resolution models but also optimizing their
performance on
high -
performance computing platforms that DOE has at its disposal — including Titan — to get to our target
of 5 simulated years per day,» Thornton said.
At the Supercomputing 93 conference in Portland, Oregon, last month the world's major manufacturers set a standard for
High Performance Fortran, a programming language used for parallel
computing, and published a library
of standard instructions called the Message Passing Interface.
Initial sample implementations
of GPI have worked very successfully: «
High -
performance computing has become a universal tool in science and business, a fixed part
of the design process in fields such as automotive and aircraft manufacturing,» says Dr. Christian Simmendinger.
This funding supports basic energy research, the development
of high -
performance computing systems, and research into the next generation
of energy sources.
The data are sent over a 10 - gigabyte connection to a
high -
performance computing cluster at Loyola's Stritch School
of Medicine.
He also chairs the policy board for the National Energy Research Scientific
Computing Center, the Department
of Energy's
high -
performance computing center for scientific research.
Method development comprises construction and analysis
of mathematical models that describe complex scientific, technical as well as socio - economic processes, the development
of efficient algorithms for simulation or optimization
of such models, accompanying development
of visualization, large scale data management and data analysis techniques, and transfer
of algorithms into efficient software and
high performance computing techniques.
MeDICi (Middleware for Data Intensive
Computing) and other tools developed by Gorton and his team form the foundation for building distributed,
high -
performance, data - intensive
computing applications in a range
of application areas including bioinformatics, cyber security, and atmospheric sciences.
The eventual goal, he said, is to use
high -
performance computing to validate and predict future
performance of stainless steel, using models to control the underlying microstructure and discover how to make
high -
performance steels, including the corrosion - resistance.
«It approximately
computes the plasma transport billions
of times faster than a gyrokinetic multiscale turbulence simulation run on
high -
performance supercomputers.»
• Eric Stahlberg, director
of high -
performance computing at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.