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August 5, 2015
Photorealistic thunderstorm visualization wins XSEDE15 people’s choice award

Winner of the XSEDE15 People's Choice award for best visualization. Courtesy David Bock. 

June 17, 2015
Multi-simulations show exposure to extreme heat may increase six-fold by mid-century

Forecasting the extent of climate change must include social factors, researchers now say. Combining climate change with population growth and using 11 different computational simulations leads scientists to forecast a possible six-fold increase in extreme heat for residents of the southern US by 2070.

May 27, 2015
Supercomputer installed in a day

Over 100 people converged to assemble Purdue University’s latest research supercomputer, Rice — in a single day!

On Friday, 8 May, staff and volunteers built a new cluster of 576 HP compute nodes with two 10-core Intel Xeon-E5 processors (20 cores per node) and 64 GB of memory. The cluster features a Mellanox 56 GB FDR Infiniband interconnect and a Lustre parallel file system built on Data Direct Networks' SFA12KX EXAScaler storage platform.

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.