Last week, there were great advancements in Supercomputing as two new facilities were officially opened to the research community. This week, supercomputers are making headlines for a totally different reason: The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Supercomputing Center in Wyoming has taken top prize in the 2013 Green Enterprise IT Awards. The facility won first place in the “Facility Design Implementation” category for its sustainable approach in design and building. This is only fitting, as the supercomputer at this facility is dedicated to Earth system science research. “Our goal is to meet the highest standards possible for sustainability in supercomputing while advancing scientific knowledge,” says Thomas Bogdan, president of the University […]
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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
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The National Science Foundation Launches Two Supercomputers
March 28th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ann DrobnisThis week, the National Science Foundation launched two new supercomputers. Here’s what Farnam Jahanian, head of NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering has to say about the launch: Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you that this week two NSF-supported advanced computational infrastructure facilities were formally declared open for use by the science and engineering research community at-large. Stampede at the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) was dedicated on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, and Blue Waters at the NationalCenter for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was dedicated on Thursday, March 28, 2013. Read more about these dedications from the NSF […]
Supercomputing Highlighted by NSF
March 26th, 2013 / in NSF / by Ann DrobnisThis week marks the dedication of the NSF “Blue Waters” supercomputer at NCSA. Over the past 30 years, driven in large part by the NSF Supercomputer Centers program and its successors, science has been transformed by computation. Scientific breakthroughs are no longer happening only in the field or in the lab – they are happening on computers. “Science is now investing in supercomputers, and they are where many new scientific discoveries are being made,” says Michael Wiltberger, a space weather researcher. The National Science Foundation is in the process of building up the nation’s computational power by funding the acquisition and deployment of three new leading-edge systems – “Yellowstone” at […]
