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Newer, faster supercomputers have allowed scientists to create detailed models of blood flow that help doctors understand what happens at the molecular level and, consequently, how heart and blood diseases can be treated.
Richard Gerber, President of the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting and Senior Science Advisor for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), talks about the past, present and future of IXPUG.
Deep Blue was based on IBM's RS/6000 SP2 supercomputer, consisting of 30 processors in two towers, one of which is shown here. The 480 identical custom chess chips (integrated circuits) were the key to the system's performance as a chess playing machine. It calculated 200 million positions per second, at times up to thirty moves ahead.
Credit: Loan of IBM, L2004.8
The Astra supercomputer at Sandia, which runs on Arm processors, is the first result of the Labs’ Vanguard program, tasked to explore emerging techniques in supercomputing.
The supercomputer is now ranked as the 203rd fastest in the world, based on its speed running the High-Performance Linpack benchmark, and 36th fastest on the High-Performance Conjugate Gradients benchmark.
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The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the flagship scientific computing facility for the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy and a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation.
Cray XT4 supercomputer cluster (Franklin) has 9,660 compute nodes. Each node has quad-core AMD processors running at 2.3 GHz. Franklin has 38,640 processor cores available for scientific applications, with 8 GB of memory per node and a total 350 TB of usable disk space.
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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It's hard to say who invented the Internet. There were many mathematicians and scientists who contributed to its development; computers were sending signals to each other as early as the 1950s. But the Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali, a math whiz who came up with the formula for allowing a large number of computers to communicate at once.
Emeagwali was born to a poor family in Akure, Nigeria, in 1954. Despite his brain for math, he had to drop out of school because his family, who had become war refugees, could no longer afford to send him. As a young man, he earned a general education certificate from the University of London and later degrees from George Washington University and the University of Maryland, as well as a doctoral fellowship from the University of Michigan.
At Michigan, he participated in the scientific community's debate on how to simulate the detection of oil reservoirs using a supercomputer. Growing up in an oil-rich nation and understanding how oil is drilled, Emeagwali decided to use this problem as the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Borrowing an idea from a science fiction story about predicting the weather, Emeagwali decided that rather than using 8 expensive supercomputers he would employ thousands of microprocessors to do the computation.
The only step left was to find 8 machines and connect them. (Remember, it was the 80s.) Through research, he found a machine called the Connection Machine at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which had sat unused after scientists had given up on figuring out how to make it simulate nuclear explosions. The machine was designed to run 65,536 interconnected microprocessors. In 1987, he applied for and was given permission to use the machine, and remotely from his Ann Arbor, Michigan, location he set the parameters and ran his program. In addition to correctly computing the amount of oil in the simulated reservoir, the machine was able to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second.
The crux of the discovery was that Emeagwali had programmed each of the microprocessors to talk to six neighboring microprocessors at the same time.
The success of this record-breaking experiment meant that there was now a practical and inexpensive way to use machines like this to speak to each other all over the world. Within a few years, the oil industry had seized upon this idea, then called the Hyperball International Network creating a virtual world wide web of ultrafast digital communication.
The discovery earned him the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers' Gordon Bell Prize in 1989, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, and he was later hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet. Since then, he has won more than 100 prizes for his work and Apple computer has used his microprocessor technology in their Power Mac G4 model. Today he lives in Washington with his wife and son.
"The Internet as we know it today did not cross my mind," Emeagwali told TIME. "I was hypothesizing a planetary-sized supercomputer and, broadly speaking, my focus was on how the present creates the future and how our image of the future inspires the present."
And not just any Cray-1, but the very first commissioned by a proper customer! This is a bona fide bit of supercomputing history I'm sat on!
...And it's in a rather stunning I.M. Pei building, too.
Sadly, none of my party were as excited about these facts as I was, but I managed to convince Mum to take this shot of me. Sheesh.
The Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Centennial Gala, held Friday, October 20, in Aberdeen was the culminating event of a year-long celebration of APG’s 100th Anniversary. Approximately 780 people attended the Cabaret-themed event, which featured live music, a casino, dancing, comedy, fireworks, acrobats and other performers, and an After-Party at the Speakeasy. Merritt Property, which manages the Aberdeen Corporate Park on route 22 next to the Target store, donated the use of the 90,000-square foot building for the event. U.S. Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, MG Randy Taylor, local and state elected officials, and senior Army officials were in attendance, as were hundreds of members of the Harford and Cecil County communities.
The Gala was hosted by the APG Centennial Celebration Association, which is working to establish the APG Discovery Center in Aberdeen. This facility will house an interactive STEM educational space for learners of all ages to experience science and technology through hands-on exhibits and demonstrations.
During 2017, the APG community hosted over 150 events during 2017 to commemorative APG’s 100-year history. The Live Fire, the APG Memorial dedication, the Rosie the Riveters movie, exhibits at the college and libraries, historical talks and presentations, and Science Cafes.
Bravura Information Technologies was the presenting sponsor of the event. Additional funding was provided by Harford County Office of Economic Development, APG Federal Credit Union, SURVICE Engineering, Harford Community College, AFCEA, IRA, Association of Old Crows, Tenax Technologies, Northeastern Maryland Technology Council, Veteran Corps of America, Profile Partners, Leidos, Cray Supercomputers, CACI, ManTech, Jacobs, Adams Communication, Booz Allen, Camber, Jones Junction Greater Harford Committee, Signatech, Cecil College and many more businesses.
Edited Chandra Space Telescope visualization of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Round variant with additional color/processing.
Original caption: Want to take a trip to the center of the Milky Way? Check out a new immersive, ultra-high-definition visualization. This 360-movie offers an unparalleled opportunity to look around the center of the galaxy, from the vantage point of the central supermassive black hole, in any direction the user chooses.
By combining NASA Ames supercomputer simulations with data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, this visualization provides a new perspective of what is happening in and around the center of the Milky Way. It shows the effects of dozens of massive stellar giants with fierce winds blowing off their surfaces in the region a few light years away from the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* for short).
These winds provide a buffet of material for the supermassive black hole to potentially feed upon. As in a previous visualization, the viewer can observe dense clumps of material streaming toward Sgr A*. These clumps formed when winds from the massive stars near Sgr A* collide. Along with watching the motion of these clumps, viewers can watch as relatively low-density gas falls toward Sgr A*. In this new visualization, the blue and cyan colors represent X-ray emission from hot gas, with temperatures of tens of millions of degrees; red shows moderately dense regions of cooler gas, with temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees; and yellow shows of the cooler gas with the highest densities.
A collection of X-ray-emitting gas is seen to move slowly when it is far away from Sgr A*, and then pick up speed and whip around the viewer as it comes inwards. Sometimes clumps of gas will collide with gas ejected by other stars, resulting in a flash of X-rays when the gas is heated up, and then it quickly cools down. Farther away from the viewer, the movie also shows collisions of fast stellar winds producing X-rays. These collisions are thought to provide the dominant source of hot gas that is seen by Chandra.
When an outburst occurs from gas very near the black hole, the ejected gas collides with material flowing away from the massive stars in winds, pushing this material backwards and causing it to glow in X-rays. When the outburst dies down the winds return to normal and the X-rays fade.
The 360-degree video of the Galactic Center is ideally viewed through virtual reality (VR) goggles, such as Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard. The video can also be viewed on smartphones using the YouTube app. Moving the phone around reveals a different portion of the movie, mimicking the effect in the VR goggles. Finally, most browsers on a computer also allow 360-degree videos to be shown on YouTube. To look around, either click and drag the video, or click the direction pad in the corner.
Dr. Christopher Russell of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Pontifical Catholic University) presented the new visualization at the 17th meeting of the High-Energy Astrophysics (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society held in Monterey, Calif. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
Harold Brown (who was director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the time of the photo) watches Edward Teller at the LARC (Livermore Advanced Research Computer) console. Lab co-founder and second director, Teller was an early advocate of a strong computer program at the Lab.
Lance Weems and Keith Fitzgerald tend to Dusk, the global parallel file system for Dawn, a 500-teraflop (trillion floating operations per second) supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Many of Lab's supercomputers are used to simulate the conditions inside a nuclear weapons. The computers also are used for earthquake simulations and climate change models.
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One of the most iconic designs of all computers has to be the round cray-1 supercomputer with the usefull seating around the computer
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Thomas Howe opens a panel underneath Mira to inspect the cooling devices and wiring that will keep Mira running.
Photo by Susan Coghlan
Image courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory
The Earth Simulator came online in 2002, entering the Top 500 at #1. It maintained its position for 2 years.
History:
www.jamstec.go.jp/esc/about/history/index.en.html
Top 500 dominance
June 2002: www.top500.org/lists/2002/06
November 2002: www.top500.org/lists/2002/11
June 2003: www.top500.org/lists/2003/06
November 2003: www.top500.org/lists/2003/11
June 2004: www.top500.org/lists/2004/06
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November 2004: End of Earth Simulator's #1 reign, surpassed by an IBM Blue Gene: www.top500.org/lists/2004/06
Specs:
35.86 teraFLOPS, _____ memory, and _______ disk
A modern version has replaced the ancient machines that launched the Earth Simulator.
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Spaceship Earth, the iconic and symbolic structure of Epcot, opened with the park in Future World in 1982. Inside The 18-story, 180-foot tall geosphere guests take a 15-minute dark Omnimover ride in a "time machine" to learn how advancements in communication have helped create the future.
Thomas Howe climbs down into the wiring and pipes underneath Mira.
Photo by Susan Coghlan
Image courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Reads like a troll, smells like a troll
'... going for the Holy Grail of Software Engineering and developing an algorithm engine (deemed impossible) that will generate 1M + algorithms per second on a supercomputer or cluster of PS3s in (any) programming language. The other half of the problem is creating a visual 3D and manageable structure for software. Solving this problem has involved all of my brainpower ...'
Hey blake what's the problem your solving? Ah found it. Better still I read this article ~ myblog.rsynnott.com/2007/05/perils-of-outsourcing.html
'... My name is Blake Southwood and I'm the founder of Brontosaurus Software. I have recruited smart MBAs and 2 lawyers to work on the business plan and right now I'm in the midst of trying in vein to recruit lisp programmers for a software project to create high level machine thinking. ... The Catch-22 is that we can't pay programmers till we get funding ...'
Can you code? Ahh then I found this article ~ www.alu.org/pipermail/uk-lispers/2006q4/000169.html
'... now has hit a seemingly insurmountable roadblock which is the lack of demonstrateable software ...'
A demo? ...
'... In the end all startups morph their business plan ( I know that I did) and they go through lots of engineers and deal with management. But with a common goal and a collective brainpower it would be advantageous for foes (potential fledgling competitors) to become comrads and cooperate together for a common good. ... They would also immediately have more engineers on board (which is always good) ...'
But this ones my favourite ~ startupsmeetandmerge.blogspot.com .. Blake your a bloomin comedian. Your talent is wasted ... couldn't dream this stuff up even if I tried.
Hmm, reads like a troll, smells like a troll ...
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One of the units of a NEC SX-6 vector supercomputer. This set of photos was taken shortly before this system was decommissioned.
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
This is on the lift tool that came with the first part of the delivery of our new IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer.
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
IEEE Spectrum // April 2009
This was a challenge to illustrate the computing power of video game consoles and graphic cards compared to traditional supercomputers. After a few initial, more complicated ideas were scrapped, we settled on this simplified, clearer solution.
At Argonne National Laboratory, employee examines the pipes under MIRA will help keep the supercomputer's temperatures stable. An engineering marvel, the 10-petaflops machine is a capable of carrying out 10 quadrillion calculations per second. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is committed to delivering 786 million core scientists each year.
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Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Targeted for 2021 delivery, the Argonne National Laboratory supercomputer will enable high-performance computing and artificial intelligence at exascale.
To find out more, visit - DOE and Argonne announce powerful tool to transform scientific research and discovery »
One of the biggest problems in supercomputers of the day was heat removal. Using ECL (Emitter Coupled Logic) for speed meant more power and thus heat than the slower TTL (Transistor Transistor Logic)
So the computer evolved to a series of pipes through which ran either chilled water, or freon, or liquid nitrogen (depending on the era) and on these pipes were mounted the heat sinks on which were mounted the electronics.
This machine in this image is easily identifiable as a CRAY based on the distinctive color scheme.
RED BLOOD CELLS (RED) AND CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS (GREEN) TRAVELING THROUGH A MICROFLUIDIC CELL SORTING DEVICE AS SIMULATED BY UDEVICEX
A team researchers from Brown University, ETH Zurich and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche are using the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Leadership Computing Facility located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to simulate hundreds of millions of red blood cells in an attempt to develop better drug delivery methods and predictors to fight against tumor formation and sickle cell anemia.
Image credit: Yu-Hang Tang, Brown University