Over at the XSEDE blog, Scott Gibson writes that the organization is collaborating with industrial partners to both advance open science and improve companies’ bottom lines. The “Industry Challenge” is a new XSEDE program designed to bring the scientific and industrial communities together in multidisciplinary collaborative teams and connect them with world-class advanced digital services. […]
Archives for February 2014
Leveraging National Computing Resources for Simulation-based Discovery
February 21, 2014 by
Frank Ham from Cascade Technologies presented this talk at the 2014 HPCAC Stanford HPC & Exascale Conference. “On an annual basis, the US government awards 10’s of billions of HPC core-hours to projects seeking to answer questions in science and engineering through large-scale simulations. In this talk, I will share several examples of insights into flow physics phenomena achieved through these programs.”
South African Student Cluster Champs Visit TACC in Austin
February 20, 2014 by
For the second time in as many years, TACC welcomed a new ‘cluster’ of students from South Africa to Austin as they prepare for the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Student Cluster Competition this June.
Lucera Announces On-demand Infrastructure for Global Electronic Trading
February 20, 2014 by
Today Lucera Financial Infrastructures announced the availability of its high-performance infrastructure to power electronic trading by financial institutions and high-frequency trading (HFT) firms.
Rich Brueckner Presents: Big Data – What’s It Really About?
February 20, 2014 by
In this video from the TCC Conference, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC describes the convergence of Big Data and HPC. “While the term Big Data has become pervasive in Information Technology, many in the industry are still puzzled by how to make money from this phenomenon. In this talk, Brueckner will look at what’s really behind Big Data as an engine for change with case studies that are bringing the full potential of Big Data home.”
UberCloud HPC Experiment: Paving the Way for HPC as a Service
February 20, 2014 by
Burak Yenier presented this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. “The UberCloud HPC Experiment brings together over 1000 participants to pave the way for HPC as a Service. Active project teams explore the end-to-end process of accessing remote computing resources in HPC centers and in HPC Clouds to study and overcome the potential roadblocks for industry applications such as CAE, Bio, and Life Sciences.”
Slidecast: Preview of vSMP Foundation 5.5 Virtualization Software
February 19, 2014 by
In this slidecast, Shai Fultheim from ScaleMP provides an update on the company’s recent announcements and previews vSMP 5.5 Foundation software. With the rise of in-memory analytics, the company is seeing rapid deployment growth for its server aggregation software.
Gordon Supercomputer Helps Guide New Drug Designs
February 19, 2014 by
Researchers at SDSC are using the flash-based Gordon supercomputer in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. By studying peptides using Gordon, the scientists have found new ways to elucidate the creation of the toxic oligomers associated with this devastating illness.
ScaleMP Teams with Boston Ltd for Largest-Memory Opteron System
February 19, 2014 by
As an integrated solution, the Boston xScaler-vSMP products deliver up to 8.5 TB RAM – the largest memory footprint available for an AMD Opteron system.
Supercomputing the Secrets of Night Vision at OSC
February 19, 2014 by
Understanding the mechanism that determines this seemingly amazing light sensitivity of melanopsin may open up new pathways in studying the evolution of light receptors in vertebrate and, in turn, the molecular basis of diseases, such as seasonal affecting disorders.
