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March 26, 2014
The growth of HPC in the life sciences

Manuel Peitsch, co-founder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, will chair a session on high-performance computing in the life sciences at ISC’14 in Leipzig, Germany, in June. He tells iSGTW about the exciting advancements being made in this field.

Peitsch argues that bioinformatics — enabled by advances in high-performance computing — has a major role to play in tackling the grand challenges of the 21st century, such as environmental protection, energy supply, public health, and sustainable food production.

February 19, 2014
High-performance computer for fusion goes offline

After serving fusion research for four years, Europe's High Performance Computer for Fusion has now completed its operations, with fusion modeling work moving to the significantly more powerful Helios computer in Rokkasho, Japan. Helios is a Japanese-European facility and has a peak performance of around 1.5 petaFLOPS.

February 12, 2014
Brain-inspired computing at ISC '14

Karlheinz Meier, one of the three co-directors of Europe’s Human Brain Project, will deliver a keynote talk at this summer's ISC'14 event in Leipzig, Germany.

Funded by the European Commission, the Human Brain Project is an ambitious endeavor, with the intention of greatly advancing the understanding of the human brain using cutting-edge computer technologies.

December 11, 2013
Making complex computations more efficient

Image courtesy Christian Schulz, KIT.

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed open-source software capable of significantly speeding up complex computations.

October 2, 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.

September 18, 2013
Big data, big opportunities — for science and for enterprise

iSGTW speaks to CERN openlab’s Sverre Jarp, ahead of this month’s inaugural ISC Big Data conference in Heidelberg, Germany. Jarp, who is the general chair of the event, picks his highlights from the conference program and tells us why big data presents exciting opportunities, but also poses challenges, for enterprise and HPC alike. 

June 26, 2013
Top of the FLOPS at ISC’13

Last week, almost 2,500 experts from industry, research, and academia gathered in the German city of Leipzig for International Supercomputing Conference '13. At the event, the new TOP500 list of supercomputing sites was announced and several speakers discussed the likelihood of achieving exascale supercomputers by the end of the decade.

 

April 24, 2013
Berkeley lab tackles next-generation climate models

Farmers, city planners, and even insurers use climate data to determine risk. To simulate severe weather, climate models are running at increasingly high resolutions that require greater processing speeds. Read about scientists’ steps to keep up with nature’s changing demands.

April 10, 2013
A Stampede for science

The University of Texas at Austin and TACC competed against the top supercomputing centers and universities to claim one of the most advanced systems in the world — and won. The prize, an estimated $50 million-plus investment over a four-year period.

April 10, 2013
Blue Waters enables groundbreaking computational science

Blue Waters, entering full deployment, is now crunching numbers around the clock at the National Petascale Computing Facility at the University of Illinois, US. Led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Blue Waters is funded by the US National Science Foundation to address the most challenging compute-, memory-, and data-intensive problems in science and engineering.

April 10, 2013
Building the world's fastest car

Video courtesy HPC Wales.

March 20, 2013
Interview: Thomas Sterling

High-performance computing veteran Thomas Sterling will be delivering a keynote speech on HPC achievement and impact at this year's International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig Germany (ISC'13). He speaks exclusively to Nages Sieslack...

March 13, 2013
Faster than a speeding… supercomputer!

How do scientists use supercomputers to predict complex things like weather, climate, earthquakes, and the formation of galaxies? Watch this video to see how supercomputers handle mathematical modeling.

January 30, 2013
Keeping chilly in Chile — the challenges of high high-performance computing

The ALMA space observatory promises new insights into our cosmic origins. But the supercomputer at the heart of the telescope array faces some serious challenges, due to the extreme high altitude of the site.

December 5, 2012
Revolutionizing rotorcraft design with CFD

High-resolution computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations created by NASA researchers are improving rotorcraft aeromechanics and design predictions.

 

 

November 28, 2012
Green power boosts collaboration in Massachusetts

This month, the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center opened its doors in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Read about the partnerships and goals of this 90,000-square-foot facility.

 

November 21, 2012
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'?

November 21, 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.

October 31, 2012
Multiscale modeling at the peta- and exascale

Catherine Gater reports from the e-Challenges 2012 conference in Lisbon on the difficulties of multiscale modeling and asks where a future with peta- and exascale computing might take us.

October 3, 2012
Why can’t every cloud have an HPC lining?

Industry experts met at the ISC Cloud ’12 conference in Mannheim, Germany, last month to discuss the challenges of achieving widespread adoption of high performance computing in the cloud.

March 30, 2011
Most beautiful supercomputer?

Supercomputers are usually judged by their speed. How do they measure up in another way?

March 2, 2011
Opinion: A Rich Port for Puerto Rican Science

The name “Puerto Rico” means “Rich Port.” Recently, the island was rich in computing education.

January 28, 2011
eChallenges Call for Papers, Florence, Italy, Deadline: 28 Feb

The eChallenges e-2011 Conference & Exhibition will take place in Florence, Italy, from 26 - 28 October 2011. This is the twenty-first in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organizations around the world; to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt and good practice.