«Without it I actually wouldn't have been able to do some of the simulations I needed — simply because of the available
supercomputing time I had and due to some of the restrictions involved.
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.
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?»
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
A longer - term goal behind OpenCL is to create a common programming interface that will even let software writers create applications that run both GPUs and CPUs with few modifications, cutting the
time and effort required to harness
supercomputing power for scientific endeavors.
Countries other than the United States have previously claimed the top spot for an individual machine's performance, but this is the first
time another country has eclipsed the United States in total
supercomputing power.
More important, for the first
time China has overtaken the United States as the country with the largest installed
supercomputing capacity.
With Mira's
supercomputing prowess, Argonne's Virtual Engine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative (VERIFI) team simulated over 2,000 engine design combinations and «reduced design
time from months to weeks,» said Sibendu Som, group leader and principal computational scientist at Argonne.
«Thanks to the computing
time obtained from the German Gauss Centre for
Supercomputing, we have been able to redefine the state of the art in this field,» explains Volker Springel.
«The only way to do this comes through
supercomputing, because the large volume needs a lot of memory, and the long
time scales mean I need a lot of computational power, and that is where the GPUs come into play.»
DENVER, Nov. 15, 2017 — On November 14 (US Mountain
Time), Inspur and NEC Deutschland GmbH announced their strategic cooperation at the 2017
Supercomputing Conference (SC17) in Denver.
«The proprietary NantOmics Cancer Genome Browser enables clinicians for the first
time to investigate a tumor genome from the full three billion bases down to the single - base level in real -
time, thanks to the power of the NantOmics
supercomputing infrastructure,» said Patrick Soon - Shiong, M.D., founder and CEO of NantHealth.
With more
supercomputing power, scientists can capture additional processes, run their models at a higher resolution, and conduct an ensemble of modeling runs that provide a fuller picture of the same
time period.