Rachel Maddow on Why the Europeans Have Better Forecasts
In this video from the Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow looks at how U.S. forecasting power has lagged behind European capabilities for years. Now, with newly funded NOAA supercomputers, that is all going to change. “By October 2015, the capacity of each of NOAA’s two operational supercomputers will jump to 2.5 petaflops, for a total of 5 petaflops – a nearly tenfold increase from the current capacity.”
Recent Features
Video: Unleashing Powerful Monte Carlo Parallel Methods
Jeff Cogswell looks at an example of the Monte Carlo methods used in scientific and engineering applications for modeling sophisticated systems. Although these methods can be complex, some easy examples like this demonstrate their power.
Intel Extends Collaboration with Barcelona Supercomputing Center
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Intel have renewed their collaboration research agreement at the Intel and BSC Exascale Laboratory in Barcelona. Now funded through 2017, the Intel and BSC Exascale Lab in Barcelona focuses on software and extraordinary levels of parallelism that will be needed to use future Intel-architecture-based supercomputers.
Industry Perspectives
New Exascale Strategies Go Beyond HPC Market
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Tom Wilie looks at the implications of the recent announcements about Exascale technology go far beyond HPC. "The boundaries are blurring. Once, high-performance computing was split: high-performance technical computing and high performance business computing. Now, the advent of big data is making the distinction untenable, a development accelerated by the convergence of HPC and the cloud." [Read More...]
Radio Free HPC Looks at Modding the Student Cluster Competitions
"Henry wants to codify rules that span all competitions in order to provide a level playing field and to satisfy his authoritarian nature. Dan isn’t so sure that would work, given that each of the sponsoring organizations have their own ideas about how to best run a competition. However, both of them believe that the competitions need to become more real world when it comes to systems, applications, and how they’re used. One of the first steps along this road, the guys agree, is to add a storage component to the competitions." [Read More...]
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