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The subarachnoid space of the optic nerve features trabeculae that bridges the meningeal layers. The function of such structures remains poorly understood and is thought to play a central role in the physiology and pathophysiology of the eye. Synchrotron-radiation micro-computed tomography at PSI, together with the most accurate computational schemes running on the supercomputer at EPFL, hold the promise of shedding light on the mystery concealed by this tract of the white matter.
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility hosted Women in Computing's "Introduce Your Daughter to Code" for the second time on June 16, giving daughters of staff members at ORNL a chance to engage in fun programming activities and code on the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer. This year, 25 girls ages 10 to 18 participated in the labwide event.
OLCF User Support Specialist Suzanne Parete-Koon kicked off the event with an introduction to parallel computing and Titan before ORNL intern Dasha Herrmannova and ORNL postdoctoral research associate Anne Berres walked the girls through the basics of coding in Python.
Katie Schuman, a Liane Russell Distinguished Early Career Fellow, helped the girls use a program called fractalName to generate colored fractals—repeating patterns that form shapes—based on their names and ages. The fractals were displayed on the visualization wall in the Exploratory Visualization Environment for Research in Science and Technology, or EVEREST. The girls also used Schuman's Birthday Pi code to find their birthdays in the first 100,000 digits of the number pi.
"It was really exciting to see the girls' enthusiasm and curiosity when they were coding," Katie says. "Seeing them already thinking creatively about the code is the most rewarding thing to me."
After they coded on the leadership-class machine, the girls explored the interactive Tiny Titan, which features eight Raspberry Pi processors and provides a visual simulation of a liquid in space. Tiny Titan demonstrates how additional nodes in a compute system can increase the speed of a simulation.
Katie says the feedback WiC continues to receive about the event will inform future coding activities. "Some of the parents have already said the girls wanted to download everything and keep playing with the code when they got home," she says. "There is already a desire for the next phase. We will definitely continue running the same curriculum and possibly expand it in the future."
The following staff members contributed to "Introduce Your Daughter to Code:" Berres, Harken, Herrmannova, Parete-Koon, Schuman, Megan Bradley, Kate Carter, Amy Coen, Katherine Engstrom, Megan Fielden, Shang Gao and Ashley Nguyen.
(Sigh. You never learn, do you, Andy? Have them tilt the circuit board a little so that it isn't completely blown out by the flash.)
I say this completely without sarcasm or a trace of self-consciousness: I think circuit boards from big old computers are legitimately beautiful. Provenance on this one is uncertain. I believe it's a controller board from a CDC 6600. If it is, it's a historically cool item: the 6600 was designed by Seymore Cray himself and is considered to be possibly the world's first supercomputer.
If not, it was definitely the first influential one. Cray set up something like a "skunk works" operation at Control Data and a small team of a few dozen engineers knocked the whole thing out. It was a revolutionary approach to computing and was several times faster than the next most powerful thing on the market.
So. Yes, I came home with this. I held it in my hands lovingly, appraising its form and lines like a work of art.
Very cool sellers, incidentally: they were big wheels at both DEC and the Computer Museum. I think if I hadn't shown up so early -- this was taken a few minutes before the Flea opened -- I would have missed out completely. They had already sold most of their cool stuff by the time I'd come along.
(When someone at the Flea has core memory for sale...that information does not stay private for very long.)
The board is now sitting on my mantlepiece while I ponder a more permanent location and system of hanging. It might just stay where it is.
To get a molecular-level understanding of nanobubble collapse near a solid surface, Priya Vashishta and his colleagues at the University of Southern California used Argonne's supercomputers to simulate and unravel the complex mechanochemistry problem. The goal of this nanobubble collapse simulation, which was run on 163,840 cores, was to improve both the safety and longevity of nuclear reactors.
Science contributors:
Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California
Ken-ichi Nomura, University of Southern California
Adarsh Shekhar, University of Southern California
Visualization contributor:
Joseph A. Insley, Argonne
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Retrocomputing (a portmanteau of retro and computing) is the use of early computer hardware and software today. Retrocomputing is usually classed as a hobby and recreation rather than a practical application of technology; enthusiasts often collect rare and valuable hardware and software for sentimental reasons. However some do make use of it.[1] Retrocomputing often gets its start when a computer user realizes that expensive fantasy systems like IBM Mainframes, DEC Superminis, SGI workstations and Cray Supercomputers have become affordable on the used computer market, usually in a relatively short time after the computers' era of use.
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Con il termine retrocomputing si indica una attività di "archeologia informatica" che consiste nel reperire, specialmente a costi minimi, computer di vecchie generazioni, che hanno rappresentato fasi importanti dell'evoluzione tecnologica, ripararli se sono danneggiati, metterli nuovamente in funzione e preservarli.
Mosaic, the first popular graphical browser for the world wide web, was created by Marc L. Andreesen and Eric J. Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Upon its 1993 release to the public, Mosaic gave Internet users easy access to Multimedia sources of information. Web browsers have transformed the exchange of information.
34 million computing hours a year. That's the processing power of the powerful high-performing supercomputer that was inaugurated on September 24 in Trieste, as an anticipation of Trieste Next. The project was developed by SISSA within an agreement with ICTP, and the machine is housed at the “old” SISSA headquarters in via Beirut 2-4. The inauguration provides an occasion to illustrate some applications of supercomputing in industry and science, and to present the new Master's in High Performance Computing, MHPC.
Latest upgrade -Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at ORNL has increased the computer power to a petaflops -quadrillion mathematical calculations per second, Jaguar - worlds first petaflops dedicated to open research.
The new petaflops machine will make it possible to address some of the challenging scientist's problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion. Jaguar is a partnership with DOE, ORNL and Cray that has pushed the computing capability at a rapid pace. The current upgrade is the result of an addition of 200 cabinets of Cray XT5 to the existing 84 cabinets of the XT4 Jaguar system.
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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
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Mike Papka, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) explains how the User Facility has been used to simulate phenomena from bird flu to the Deep Horizon oil spill at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.
Mike Papka, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) presents on the facility's status and future plans at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.
The first Cray 1-A supercomputer ever sold. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) purchased it in 1977 for $8 million. It was retired in 1989.
PI: Christos Frouzakis, Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech.
Volume renderings of instantaneous mixture fraction, temperature and hydroperoxy (HO_2) radical concentration (left to right) of an autoigniting hydrogen jet in a coflowing stream of turbulent heated air.
The images were created by Stefan Kerkemeier on the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's visualization system, Eureka.
The Ship that may never be completed...
The Anastar II is the 4th ship in the 'Ana'-Class Superships. Measuring in at approx. 1km long, and around 300m wide, this is one the largest ships to sail the sea. With the tech and weaponry installed on this ship, the pricetag falls near 5 trillion USD. With an arsenal large enough to level a country, or decimate a small moon (Hypothetically) Top priorities were given to give this ship the most effective Anti-Navy Capabilities as possible. A 360 Degree Scanner, along with several external cameras, allow the crew on the bridge to see the situation and make decisions accordingly. With a crew somewhat under 100 Men, mainly due to most of the ship's systems being fully autonomous all controlled by the A.I Supercomputer onboard. The supercomputer also designates the amount of energy sent to which parts of the ships, as well as controls the Ship's Near-Perfect Defense system. The Ship's near Perfect Defense system "Holy Shield" is composed of several chemical laser pods, and many 30mm Gatling CIWS systems mounted internally onboard, capable of being deployed when needed. For Multi-Purpose missions, the Anastar II is also equipped with a Hangar, and two Catapults, deployed on the top of the ship, capable of Launching Planes, and Mechs.
Powering this ship are 20 Nuclear Reactors, providing energy to all systems onboard, as well as the 5 Hydrojet Engines propelling this ship, also giving it a max speed of 15 knots.
The Main armament of this ship are it's two 750mm High-Energy Nuclear Particle Cannons, producing and directing a massive amount of energy in about a beam with a diameter of 50ft. It's Range is also unprecedented, capable of attacking targets in orbit around Earth. Also equipped on this ship are a massive plethora of VLS cells, capable of firing everything from SAM's to SLBM's, also including a ICBM Launch cell, capable of launching full-size ICBM's.
The final Mentionable feature of this ship is it's Near Perfect Defense System "Holy Shield" Made up of around 40-50 CIWS mounted in various places around the ship, it's 88 Chemical Laser Pods, "Spotter" ABM/SAM's as well as it's Particle Shield, give this ship a almost perfect defense.
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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
One of the most iconic designs of all computers has to be the round cray-1 supercomputer with the usefull seating around the computer
Made as a series of virtual experiments, Quantum Fluctuations shows the complexity and transient nature of the most fundamental aspect of reality, the quantum world, which is impossible to observe directly. In the laboratory, elementary particles are observed by measuring the spoils of a proton collision and comparing the findings with data collected from supercomputer simulations. It is perhaps the most indirect method of observation imaginable, a non-representational form of observation mediated by computer simulations.
Credit: Markos Kay
Researchers are using computational quantum chemistry and deep learning methods to detect previously unidentified molecules for metabolomics and exposomics research.
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Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) is home to TITAN, the world's most powerful supercomputer for open science with a theoretical peak performance exceeding 20 petaflops (quadrillion calculations per second).
Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers. It will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, climate change, efficient engines, materials and other disciplines and pave the way for a range of achievements in sciences and technology.
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The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility hosted Women in Computing's "Introduce Your Daughter to Code" for the second time on June 16, giving daughters of staff members at ORNL a chance to engage in fun programming activities and code on the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer. This year, 25 girls ages 10 to 18 participated in the labwide event.
OLCF User Support Specialist Suzanne Parete-Koon kicked off the event with an introduction to parallel computing and Titan before ORNL intern Dasha Herrmannova and ORNL postdoctoral research associate Anne Berres walked the girls through the basics of coding in Python.
Katie Schuman, a Liane Russell Distinguished Early Career Fellow, helped the girls use a program called fractalName to generate colored fractals—repeating patterns that form shapes—based on their names and ages. The fractals were displayed on the visualization wall in the Exploratory Visualization Environment for Research in Science and Technology, or EVEREST. The girls also used Schuman's Birthday Pi code to find their birthdays in the first 100,000 digits of the number pi.
"It was really exciting to see the girls' enthusiasm and curiosity when they were coding," Katie says. "Seeing them already thinking creatively about the code is the most rewarding thing to me."
After they coded on the leadership-class machine, the girls explored the interactive Tiny Titan, which features eight Raspberry Pi processors and provides a visual simulation of a liquid in space. Tiny Titan demonstrates how additional nodes in a compute system can increase the speed of a simulation.
Katie says the feedback WiC continues to receive about the event will inform future coding activities. "Some of the parents have already said the girls wanted to download everything and keep playing with the code when they got home," she says. "There is already a desire for the next phase. We will definitely continue running the same curriculum and possibly expand it in the future."
The following staff members contributed to "Introduce Your Daughter to Code:" Berres, Harken, Herrmannova, Parete-Koon, Schuman, Megan Bradley, Kate Carter, Amy Coen, Katherine Engstrom, Megan Fielden, Shang Gao and Ashley Nguyen.
Despite looking a little bit like a sofa this is one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history.
This particular one was used at the atomic weapons establishment in Aldermaston UK.
Costing around $9 million in 1977 as a rough guide it could process about 160 MIPs (million instructions per second) whereas modern CPUs like the Intel Core i7 920 (Quadcore) can do 82,300 MIPS and costs around $500. So think how lucky you are!
Iberdrola y el Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), están desarrollando de forma conjunta una importante iniciativa de I+D+i, denominada 'Proyecto Sedar (Simulación eólica de alta resolución)' / Iberdrola and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) are jointly developing a major initiative for R & D+i, called 'Sedar Project (High Resolution Wind Simulation)'
The IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer was named New York Blue and is located at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
New York Blue is the centerpiece of the New York Center for Computational Sciences (NYCCS). It is a cooperative effort between Stony Brook University and BNL. New York Blue has an 18-rack configuration, at total of 36,864 processors and 18.4 TB of memory. It is the world's fastest supercomputer for general users and is expected to rank among the top ten fastest computers in the world.
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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.
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility hosted Women in Computing's "Introduce Your Daughter to Code" for the second time on June 16, giving daughters of staff members at ORNL a chance to engage in fun programming activities and code on the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer. This year, 25 girls ages 10 to 18 participated in the labwide event.
OLCF User Support Specialist Suzanne Parete-Koon kicked off the event with an introduction to parallel computing and Titan before ORNL intern Dasha Herrmannova and ORNL postdoctoral research associate Anne Berres walked the girls through the basics of coding in Python.
Katie Schuman, a Liane Russell Distinguished Early Career Fellow, helped the girls use a program called fractalName to generate colored fractals—repeating patterns that form shapes—based on their names and ages. The fractals were displayed on the visualization wall in the Exploratory Visualization Environment for Research in Science and Technology, or EVEREST. The girls also used Schuman's Birthday Pi code to find their birthdays in the first 100,000 digits of the number pi.
"It was really exciting to see the girls' enthusiasm and curiosity when they were coding," Katie says. "Seeing them already thinking creatively about the code is the most rewarding thing to me."
After they coded on the leadership-class machine, the girls explored the interactive Tiny Titan, which features eight Raspberry Pi processors and provides a visual simulation of a liquid in space. Tiny Titan demonstrates how additional nodes in a compute system can increase the speed of a simulation.
Katie says the feedback WiC continues to receive about the event will inform future coding activities. "Some of the parents have already said the girls wanted to download everything and keep playing with the code when they got home," she says. "There is already a desire for the next phase. We will definitely continue running the same curriculum and possibly expand it in the future."
The following staff members contributed to "Introduce Your Daughter to Code:" Berres, Harken, Herrmannova, Parete-Koon, Schuman, Megan Bradley, Kate Carter, Amy Coen, Katherine Engstrom, Megan Fielden, Shang Gao and Ashley Nguyen.
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
Jack Deslippe, acting group leader at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) covers Optimizing Codes Using the Roofline Model at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.
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
Joe Curley, Sr. Director for Platform & Ecosystem Enabling at Intel presents on the 'Road to Many Core Computing' and the value of the user community at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.
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
As part of the lab's new outreach initiative NERSC has started a partnership program with Oakland Technical High School's Computer Science and Technology Academy, a small academy within the larger Oakland Tech High School. On Thursday afternoon June 3rd, 12 students from Oakland Tech and their teacher Emmanuel Onyeador visited the NERSC Oakland Scientific Facility for an introduction to computational science, supercomputer architecture, and a tour of the NERSC machine room. Katie Antypas, a High Performance Computing consultant gave an overview of NERSC Center and an introduction to parallel programming explaining why science problems require such huge computers. Dave Paul, a systems engineer brought out computer nodes and parts from NERSC's older systems and demonstrated how the components have become both more dense and more power efficient as the technology has evolved over time. Each student was able to take home a piece of Seaborg, a Power3 system NERSC decommissioned a few years ago. Finally David Stewart, a network engineer, led the students on a dynamic tour of the machine room, showing not only the computational systems but lifting floor tiles to display the vast networking, cabling and piping infrastructure underneath the floor required to run a center like NERSC.
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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Conference-presenter Yuliana Zamora at the Intel Xeon Phi User's Group (IXPUG) annual meeting at Argonne.
A TECHNICIAN WORKS ON THE RED STORM SUPERCOMPUTER AT SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORY.
Red Storm has two first place benchmarks measure the efficiency of keeping track of data (called random access memory), and of communicating data between processors. An unusual feature of Red Storm's architecture is that the computer can do both classified work with the throw of a few switches. The architecture was design by Sandia. The lab has partnered with Cray, Inc to sell 15 copies of supercomputer in various sizes to U.S. government agencies and universities, and customers in Canada, England, Switzerland, and Japan
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