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Yael Tauman Kalai on her career, proof systems, and certifying correctness.

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Sc13 Talk Pushes Hpc in New Educational Directions

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Application director Thom Dunning discusses the potential for using computational... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | November 25, 2013

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Nsf-Ncsa Study Probes Relationship Between Industrial Applications and nderlying Science

In an interview, U.S. NCSA director Merle Giles discusses the findings of a study to determine whether improvements in the science inside applications and other... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | October 10, 2012

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Climate Science Triggers Torrent of Big Data Challenges

ORNL supercomputers running models to assess climate change ramifications and mitigation tactics are rapidly generating a wide variety of big data in vast volumes... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2012

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Exascale Computing: The View From Argonne

In an interview, U.S. Argonne National Laboratory directors Rick Stevens, Michael Papka, and Marc Snir contextualize the challenges and advantages of developing... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | June 22, 2012

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The Bumpy Road to Exascale: A Q&a With Thomas Sterling

Indiana University professor Thomas Sterling says in an interview that an effort is under way to cultivate an international community committed to the goal of... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | November 18, 2011

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Nsf's Seidel: 'software Is the Modern Language of Science'

Software is the core technology behind a dramatic acceleration in all areas of science, and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the science community... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | August 15, 2011

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European Exascale Project Drives Toward Next Supercomputing Milestone

The goal of the European Exascale Software Initiative (EESI) is to help effect the migration from petascale to exascale systems over the next 10 years by bringing... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2011

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ncovering Results in the Magellan Testbed

The Magellan cloud computing testbed funded by the U.S. Department of Energy is dedicated to studying the advantages and disadvantages of the cloud computing model... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2010

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Scaling the Exa

The University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra says the transition to exascale computing is going to be more dramatic than earlier transitions, and this will result... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | June 7, 2010

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Reconfigurable Computing Research Pushes Forward

Alan George, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation's Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), says that challenges and objectives... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2009

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Twins Separated at Birth: Cloud Computing and Hpc

Microsoft's Dan Reed is the director of the Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) organization, whose overall goal is the transformation of the way people construct and... HPC Wire
From ACM TechNews | March 16, 2009