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21 November 2012

Supercomputers continue to push the boundaries of discovery

Speakers at the SC12 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, highlight the role of scientific research in continuing to drive and benefit from high performance computing. They argued that a strong voice for the continued advancement of technology is vital in ensuring evolving research and economic leadership.

Amber Harmon
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Enabling knowledge creation in data-driven science

Extracting new knowledge from big data science is such a problem that projects are now underway which may transform research publishing and find relationships too complex for the human mind to see alone.

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Is gaming tech the key to green HPC?

Graphical processing units have certainly helped today's high performance computers reach improved levels of energy efficiency, but will they be able to deliver similar power savings in the future to help overcome the looming 'power wall'?

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SC12 roundup

Last week, iSGTW was at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis – more commonly known as SC12 – in Salt Lake City, Utah. Read our interview with general chair, Jeff Hollingsworth, and find out about one of the world's fastest networks.

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