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2 October 2013

Flexibility — for HPC, clouds, and the workforce.

Last week, ISC Cloud ’13 was held in Heidelberg, Germany. Delegates at the event agreed on the importance of supporting research with ‘utility computing’ models, whereby cloud-based, on-demand HPC services are used ad hoc to support in-house computing resources at times of heavy demand. Also, example use cases of HPC in the cloud were given and the importance of training was discussed.

Andrew Purcell
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Saying goodbye to the command line

Scientists and researchers using large supercomputing clusters may soon experience the benefits of interactivity. In 2011, researchers at Louisiana State University’s (LSU’s) Center for Computation & Technology began envisioning what interactivity with powerful supercomputers could mean.

With support from a $1 million dollar grant from the US National Science Foundation, associate professor Brygg Ullmer is leading a team of 40 co-investigators across 11 departments in five colleges. At the center of their efforts is Melete – a system that integrates an interaction-oriented compute cluster with tangible interfaces.

Amber Harmon
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Supersonic shockwaves captured in the act
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Preparing for tomorrow's big data

Research at CERN featured prominently in discussion at ISC Big Data ’13, which was held last week in Heidelberg, Germany. The event focused on the future of handling big data, as well as big data as a crossroads where high-performance computing and enterprise meet.

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