Promotion
of Supercomputing Partnerships for European Competitiveness and Technology - in short «PROSPECT» — is a European consortium of leading technology companies and scientific respectively industrial HPC users.
It establishes the requirements for a sustainable and efficient use
of supercomputing resources, coordinates the HPC related activities of its members and implements the BMBF study «HPC in Germany — Reasons for a Strategic Alliance».
AccelerEyes» products bring a level
of supercomputing power to standard personal computers.
Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and two Swiss institutes received 12 million hours
of supercomputing time, thanks to the 2010 INCITE Leadership Computing award from the Department of Energy.
Organizers
of Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2018, held in Warsaw, Poland, last month, have posted brief, fascinating video interviews with three prominent key Read more...
And given the high cost
of supercomputing time, Foster wonders, «Will people let others tap into their supercomputers if they don't pay for them?»
The hope is that systems like Blue Gene could be the future
of supercomputing because they harness cheap off - the - shelf PC microprocessors rather than the custom - built hardware of SX - 8 and the Earth Simulator.
When it comes to the number
of supercomputing centers it wants to support, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided that less is more.
The decision spells the end of NSF underwriting
of supercomputing centers in Pittsburgh and at Cornell University, which have shared their disappointment with federal legislators but pledged to stay open.
Physicists and mathematics go very well together also, and the development
of supercomputing gives new possibilities, new insights and new ways to test things, so it's a very exciting time.
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Not exact matches
That includes the Google Apps cloud productivity suite and the Google Cloud Platform, which lets companies
of all shapes and sizes pay by the minute for functionally unlimited
supercomputing power.
Another three
of the same supercomputers will be installed at the Navy Department
of Defense
Supercomputing Resource Center in southern Mississippi.
HPE
supercomputing and A.I. head Bill Mannel said the latest version
of the company's supercomputers include more Nvidia GPUs than they ever have and HPE is exploring different types
of specialized chips like so - called field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips to help improve the overall performance for certain tasks.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and Defense Department's
Supercomputing Resource Center at the Wright - Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH will receive four HPE SGI 8600 supercomputers, as part
of the deal.
Alan Duffy, a Research Fellow in the Centre for Astrophysics and
Supercomputing and Lead Scientist
of The Royal Institution
of Australia, said Hawking was an inspiration not just a scientist but a communicator
of that science.
Johansen: Cloud - served
supercomputing... will disrupt the concept
of scaling.
We've built
supercompute racks ourselves, and we know that degrees
of freedom doesn't mean how often a robot escapes.
Nvidia, a hardware firm whose graphic processing units (GPUs) have seen booming sales as a result
of the rise
of deep learning, lists uses on its website that range from Adobe's DeepFont, which identifies the fonts used in an image, to the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, which detects gravitational waves millions
of miles away in real time.
NOAA would receive an additional $ 50 million for research weather
supercomputing infrastructure and for improvement
of satellite ground services used in hurricane intensity and track prediction.
Bjerknes Centre, Uni Research and University
of Bergen scientists Noel Keenlyside, Stefan Sobolowski and Camille Li are among King's co-authors, as are colleagues from the University
of Zagreb, the University
of Barcelona, Barcelona
Supercomputing Center and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste.
Leopold Grinberg, an applied mathematician at Brown University, developed a fluid dynamics model and ran it at the Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center to learn more about blood flow at the circle
of Willis.
The same GIMPS software just uncovered a flaw in Intel's latest Skylake CPUs, and its global network
of CPUs peaking at 450 trillion calculations per second remains the longest continuously - running «grassroots
supercomputing» project in Internet history.
Cho measures how closely a state's existing legislative districts line up with billions
of non-partisan maps drawn by her
supercomputing cluster.
Exascale computing
Supercomputing three orders
of magnitude above the current frontier, with quintillions
of calculations per second.
In fact, experiments are impossible for studying certain aspects
of astrophysics, meaning that in order to gain greater insight into how galaxies formed, researchers rely on
supercomputing.
To that end, researchers at the University
of Cologne's Institute for Geology and Mineralogy have turned to computing resources at the Jülich
Supercomputing Centre (JSC) to help better comprehend how materials behave in the extreme conditions below the surface
of the Earth.
Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department
of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry
of Science and Education
of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council
of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications at the University
of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, the Kavli Institute
of Cosmological Physics at the University
of Chicago, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the collaborating institutions in the Dark Energy Survey.
Whether studying deep in space among the stars or deep below the surface
of the Earth, the collaboration between
supercomputing centres and researchers will play an increasingly important role in solving the world's toughest scientific challenges.
As JSC and the other two Gauss Centre for
Supercomputing (GCS) facilities — the High - Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and the Leibniz
Supercomputing Centre in Garching — install next - generation supercomputers, the team is confident that they will be able to gain even greater insight into the wide range
of complex material interactions happening many kilometres below the surface.
The absence
of a coordinated federal
supercomputing effort had made it more difficult for agencies like the Department
of Energy (DOE) to make their case with the Office
of Management and Budget that they needed to boost
supercomputing budgets, Simon says.
Last spring, with fears rising over the H1N1 swine flu virus, researchers from the University
of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and the University
of Utah were granted emergency
supercomputing time at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin.
According to the latest TOP500 list released earlier this month, the United States continues to lead the world in
supercomputing power, with 233
of the top 500 machines.
This latter category includes research on how to manage the torrents
of data emerging from climate models and other advanced
supercomputing programs.
«I was hoping to see more
of a ramp up,» says John Shalf, a
supercomputing expert at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
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.
«It's very likely that the structural plasticity
of the brain is the basis for long - term memory formation,» says Markus Butz, who has been working at the recently established Simulation Laboratory Neuroscience at the Jülich
Supercomputing Centre for the past few months.
The simulations, which were run on UCL's Legion supercomputer and HECToR (the UK national
supercomputing service), provided a molecule - by - molecule view
of how the CO2 and greigite interacted, helping to make sense
of what was being observed in the experiments.
In addition to being an assistant professor in ecohydrology and geoinformatics in the Department
of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in the College
of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at U
of I, Guan has a joint appointment as a Blue Waters professor affiliated with the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Centre for Astrophysics and
Supercomputing and ARC Centre for All - Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), Swinburne University
of Technology, Post Office Box 218 Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia.
For number - crunching researchers, these links offer the «
supercomputing equivalent
of telecommuting,» says Robert Hollebeek, co-director
of the National Scaleable Cluster Project at the University
of Pennsylvania, and an earlier award grantee.
David Bock / National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) / Board
of Trustees
of the University
of Illinois
This projection would be several years longer if not for the researchers» ability to crunch numbers on «Lincoln,» a supercomputer at the University
of Illinois's National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) powered by 384 NVIDIA Corp..
In addition to JGU, also involved in the project are the Technical University
of Madrid and the Barcelona
Supercomputing Center in Spain, the French National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (Inria), the Foundation for Research and Technology in Greece, Seagate Systems in the UK, the German Climate Computing Center, CA Technologies Development in Spain, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), and Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH.
Numerical modeling
of precipitation measurements was conducted using a supercomputer nicknamed Cheyenne at the NCAR - Wyoming
Supercomputing Center.
The Blue Brain and Human Brain Project will take a new step with a Blue Gene / Q augmented by 128 terabytes
of flash memory at the Swiss National
Supercomputing Center in Lugano, Switzerland.
A new supercomputer at China's National
Supercomputing Center in Wuxi in Jiangsu province has snagged the top spot on the latest TOP500 list
of supercomputers, which was unveiled today at the 2016 International
Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
«We're seeing an inflection point,» says Horst Simon, a
supercomputing expert and deputy director
of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.
Such mission - focused labs led to major technical and scientific strides in fields such as nuclear power, advanced materials, and
supercomputing that came out
of the atom bomb and space programs.
The battle for
supercomputing supremacy took a new twist on Tuesday when Japanese manufacturer NEC launched a new generation
of computational building blocks that could be laced together to form the most powerful supercomputer in the world.