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9 October 2013

Student programs shine at IEEE Cluster 2013

Recognizing the computational challenges of the 21st century and beyond, the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2013) conference chairs put together a strong student program, funded in part by the US National Science Foundation and Indiana University’s Pervasive Technology Institute. Nearly one third of conference attendees were students – including undergraduates – and scholarships supported attendance by students from more than 18 universities spanning the globe.

Amber Harmon
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Data in the DNA: transforming biology and data storage

Ewan Birney, associate director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, says that biology has now transformed to become a 'big-data science'. Ahead of his keynote talk at this month’s EUDAT 2nd conference, he explains that the field faces both what he terms 'blue-' and 'white-collar problems' in handling this data deluge.

Plus, could DNA really be the future of data storage? Birney believes it could be. "DNA is remarkable," he says. "Just one gram of DNA can store about a petabyte’s worth of data… it's estimated that you could put the whole internet into the size of a van!"

Andrew Purcell
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Nobel prize for physics — the role of the grid
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Supercomputing goes back to school

School is back in full swing at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin, US. In addition to teaching courses at The University of Texas at Austin, TACC staff offer more than 50 training sessions each year. Along with staff at Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing in Ithaca, New York, they are now teaching computational scientists-in-training how to accelerate research with Stampede – one of the largest supercomputers available to academic researchers in the US.

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