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Star Trek@50: Inspiring Discovery and Innovation
Star Trek has inspired generations to pursue science and technology careers, not a few of whom have transformed part of it into technological and commercial fact...
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Exascale Computing and Big Data: Time To Reunite
It is past time to reunite the big data, cloud, and high-performance computing communities. Each can each learn much from the other.
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Through A Google Glass, Darkly
I have been wearing Google Glass as both a technical assessment of utility and as a social study in human dynamics and expectations.
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Deferred Maintenance on the Future
Over-worked and sleep-deprived drivers are steering many of our vehicles of discovery on balding tires across potholed roads. Stripping away the metaphor, we are...
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Leaping the Exascale Chasm
The global race is on to build ever-faster supercomputers, fueled by a combination of scientific and engineering needs to simulate phenomena with greater resolution...
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Simplifying Communication
How often have you picked up a scholarly journal in a discipline far removed from your expertise, only to be stymied and mystified by the disciplinary jargon? We...
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Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude
Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for...
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Little's Law in the Exascale Era
When performance optimization, reliability requirements, and energy management are convolved with component costs, device physics, system software services and...
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HPC, Big Data and the Peloponnesian War
We need a concord and strategic research investment plan that recognizes the shared importance of HPC and big data. Both warrant investments in basic research,...
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Research {Preposition} Infrastructure
Computing research and advanced computing infrastructure–each is dependent on the other in a myriad of subtle and complex ways, yet each is profoundly different...
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Online Higher Education
The higher education community is abuzz with debates regarding massive open online courses (MOOCs). This feels like a time of profound change, when the confluence...
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My Scientific Big Data Are Lonely
Although there are daunting technical challenges posed by big data in science and engineering, the social and economic challenges are just as difficult, though...
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No, Maybe, Yes, Obviously: Telling the Future the Past
The Kubler-Ross model of the stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — is sometimes an apt description of the culture change required...
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All Grown Up Now: Service and Serial Reciprocity
Computing is central to the debate about so many aspects of our present and future that we have a duty and responsibility to be active and enthusiastic participants...
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Research Data Sustainability and Access
The dramatic growth of research data, the collaborative nature of international research, expectations for economic returns, and disciplinary differences all make...
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Planting Seeds in the Field of Knowledge
In these challenging economic times, universities are under great stress--economically, politically, and socially. It is tempting for those of us in computing to...
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SC11: The Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy Awards
The Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy awards and the work of the recipients reflect the evolving interplay of technology, software, applications and algorithms in advancing...
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Analog Computing: Time For a Comeback?
Use of the word "computer" conjures certain images. One of them, so deeply ingrained that we rarely question it, is that computing is digital. The alternative,...
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Why We Compute
Why do we, as researchers and practitioners, have this deep and abiding love of computing? Why do we compute? I suspect it is a deeper, more primal yearning, one...
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