The rollercoaster week here at insideHPC reminds that life is what we focus on. There’s been no shortage of HPC news, though, so here are some of the notable nuggets:
- Jobs! Google and Microsoft are recruiting 6200 in a talent war. Now you just have to decide if you want to write code that people use daily or avoid daily.
- Prescription HPC. Supercomputing Genome Analysis is being used to alter course of individual patient’s cancer treatments. Reason #156 why I love my job.
- Amazon Cloudpacalypse! In the wake of the Amazon meltdown this week, Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy joined the Twitter nation with an update on the company’s famous slogan The Network is the Computer.
- “I said the NW is the Computer, I did not say it had 100% uptime.”
- Scaling Molecular Sims. The HPC Advisory Council published a Best Practices document for Performance Benchmark and Profiling CP2K, which is atomistic and molecular simulations software for solid state, liquid, molecular and biological systems.
- Third Petascale Bull. With a big win at Japan’s International Fusion Energy Research Center, Bull has firmly established itself in HPC’s elite ranks.
- 54 Years of Fortran. The venerable programming language that debuted in 1957 celebrated it’s birthday this week.
- CERN ups The Force. The LHC at CERN has just powered up it’s most powerful particle beam ever. Let’s hope Skynet doesn’t have an account on the thing.
- Summer School with View. The TeraGrid, DEISA, and PRACE are pleased to announce the second joint EU-US Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Science, August 7-11, 2011 in Lake Tahoe.
- Beam me up, Scotty. Australian researchers have demonstrated for the first time that atoms can be guided in a laser beam and possess the same properties as light guided in an optical communications fiber.
