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Purdue's NEW LIMITS Center to Advance Computer Chip Parts
Purdue University is using funding from the Semiconductor Research Corp. and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology for its NEW LIMITS facility...
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.s. Leads but China Gains in Nsf 2018 S&e Indicators Report
The U.S. National Science Foundation's Science and Engineering Indicators 2018 report found the U.S. still leads in science and engineering worldwide, although...
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New Blueprint For Converging Hpc, Big Data
A group of high-performance computing experts has released a report as a blueprint for aligning computational infrastructures.
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Science Application Developers Share Pioneering Strategies For Exascale Computing
Three U.S. Department of Energy scientists discuss providing scalability and performance portability to prepare for exascale computing.
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Co-Design Center Develops Next-Gen Simulation Tools
The Exascale Computing Project's Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations collaborates to create highly optimized discretization libraries and next-generation...
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U.s. Coalesces Plans For First Exascale Supercomputer
The delivery date for the U.S.'s first exascale supercomputing system, Aurora, has been extended from 2018 to 2021, while its target capability has been enlarged...
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Kathy Yelick Charts the Promise and Progress of Exascale Science
ACM Fellow Kathy Yelick of the University of California, Berkeley, discusses the scientific applications fueling exascale computing.
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Julia Joins Petaflop Club
The open source Julia programming language has been admitted into the "Petaflop Club."
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nlocking Wind's Potential: Supercomputing's Grand Challenge
Supercomputing-led scientific advances could halve the cost of wind energy by 2030.
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Nsf Announces $17.7m in Awards For Cross-Disciplinary Data Sciences Projects
The U.S. National Science Foundation will allocate $17.7 million to fund 12 Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science projects that support research...
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Iarpa Announces Map of the World Challenge For Satellite Imagery
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched the functional Map of the World Challenge.
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Michio Kaku Sketches Technological Wonderland of the Future at Sc12
Imagine a world where a computer chip costs just a penny.
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Blue Waters Opts Out of Top500
The NCSA Blue Waters system is one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but it won't appear on the TOP500 list—nor will it be taking part in the HPC Challenge...
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Thomas Sterling: 'i Think We Will Never Reach Zettaflops'
As supercomputing makes its way through the petascale era, the future of the technology has never seemed so uncertain.
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Microsoft Shares Cloud Technology with Top Australian Research Organizations
Microsoft Corp. announced partnerships with three of Australia's top research organizations as part of its Global Cloud Research Engagement Initiative. The partners...12