International Exascale Workshop Culminates with US-Japan Collaboration Agreement

On June 22, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) signed an agreement to collaborate on exascale supercomputing technologies for the scientific community. In a nutshell, the plan is to build a common OS kernel that can be used by all post-petascale systems, regardless of hardware eccentricities.

Video: Thomas Sterling Accepts the HPC Vanguard Award

In this video from SC13, Thomas Sterling from Indiana University accepts the first inaugural HPC Vanguard Award.