My latest contact with SDSC’ers indicates that the facility was unharmed during the recent fires, and the center is beginning to resume operations.
As of 10/26 the center had returned its Blue Gene to service. More here.
SC17 will feature a panel discussion entitled How Serious Are We About the Convergence Between HPC and Big Data? "The possible convergence between the third and fourth paradigms confronts the scientific community with both a daunting challenge and a unique opportunity. The challenge resides in the requirement to support both heterogeneous workloads with the same hardware architecture. The opportunity lies in creating a common software stack to accommodate the requirements of scientific simulations and big data applications productively while maximizing performance and throughput. [Read More...]
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