“There are only two natural disasters that could impact the entire U.S.,” according to Gabor Toth, professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. “One is a pandemic and the other is an extreme space weather event.” We’re currently seeing the effects of the first in real-time. The last major space […]
Univ. of Michigan Researchers Using TACC Frontera HPC for Space Weather Forecasting
From Grand Challenges to Critical Workflows
Geert Wenes writes in the Cray Blog that the next generation of Grand Challenges will focus on critical workflows for Exascale. “For every historical HPC grand challenge application, there is now a critical dependency on a series of other processing and analysis steps, data movement and communications that goes well beyond the pre- and post-processing of yore. It is iterative, sometimes synchronous (in situ) and generally more on an equal footing with the “main” application.”