A key to the team's success was the use of
powerful supercomputers at PNNL and EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
Not exact matches
That's why University of Washington (UW) researchers are using one of the nation's most
powerful supercomputers, the 10 - petaflop / s Mira
at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), to improve their software for designing protein structures to likewise virtually design and test mini-proteins called peptides.
The XGC code ran for three days and took 90 percent of the capacity of Titan
at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), which is the nation's most
powerful supercomputer for open science and capable of performing up to 27 million billion (1015) operations per second.
The world's top
supercomputer, China's Tianhe - 2, is nearly twice as
powerful as the second place machine, Titan
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Fifteen years ago, Peter Shor, a computer scientist
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, predicted that quantum computers could beat even the most
powerful supercomputers and crack the widely used RSA encryption algorithm.
The most
powerful U.S. machine, ranked third overall, is Titan, a 17.59 Pflop / s
supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Using the Stampede
supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center — one of the most
powerful in the world — Henry ran simulations that captured the behavior of localized vibrations as never before.
Using a combination of data gathered from
powerful radio telescopes and
supercomputer simulations, the teams found that a quasar spits out cold gas
at speeds up to 2000 kilometres per second, and across distances of nearly 200,000 light years — much farther than has been observed before.
That fortuitous development made Titan a
powerful tool for exploring artificial intelligence
at supercomputer scales.
«All the work was conducted on Blue Waters, a
powerful petascale
supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) on the University of Illinois campus,» says Peng.
Until recently, what distinguished a
powerful supercomputer from its rivals was the speed of the processor chip
at its core, where all the computing is done.
The panel also recommended that NIH establish a new program aimed
at organizing and curating massive biological databases, such as one on the mouse genome; set aside funds for researchers to hire biocomputing help; and support scientists assembling midsize computer networks that are more
powerful than desktop machines but easier to manage than
supercomputers.
Other
powerful computers and techniques are taking aim
at biological problems too:
supercomputers are being wielded in a genomic fight against cancer.
The investigations relied on the Stampede and Lonestar
supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)-- among the most
powerful in the world.
They include a scientific code that physicist Seung - Hoe Ku runs on two of the world's most
powerful supercomputers to study turbulence
at the volatile edge of fusion plasmas.
To study an even larger signaling complex surrounding the switch, the team is expanding these simulations on the 27 - petaflop, CPU — GPU machine Titan — the nation's most
powerful supercomputer, managed by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
at ORNL.
Selected through a merit - based process, these scientists and engineers will have access to world - class science expertise and capabilities
at ORNL, including Titan, the nation's most
powerful supercomputer; the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, DOE's largest advanced manufacturing research center; and the Spallation Neutron Source, offering atomic - level insight into advanced materials.
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supercomputer called Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was ranked the world's most powerful comput
supercomputer called Sequoia
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was ranked the world's most
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These systems will be able to run applications such as CANDLE 50 to 100 times faster than today's most
powerful supercomputers, like those housed
at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
A
supercomputer based on the Cell processor that is found in Sony's PlayStation 3 console has rocketed into the latest Top 500 supercomputing ranking
at number one to become the most
powerful computer in the world.
And Julia Slingo from Reading University admitted it would not get much better until they had
supercomputers 1,000 times more
powerful than
at present.
The
supercomputer Mistral
at DKRZ is listed on rank 38 of the list and is currently the third most
powerful HPC system in Germany.
They've used strong encryption which, with a reasonably long and non-obvious passphrase, isn't crackable in practice (brute force methods even using the most
powerful supercomputers on the planet would take lifetimes,
at least).
hardware.slashdot.org - bigwophh writes from a report via HotHardware: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage
at GTC today to unveil a number of GPU - powered innovations for machine learning, including a new AI
supercomputer and an updated version of the company's
powerful Tesla V100 GPU that now sports a hefty 32 GB o...