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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
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
Auburn University’s new $1 million supercomputer will enhance research across campus, from microscopic gene sequencing to huge engineering tasks. Pictured, from left, are Office of Information Technology specialists Brad Garnett, Jonathan Scandlyn , Bradley Morgan and Mike Hickman as they help install a portion of the supercomputer.
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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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.
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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OLCF staff bid farewell to the Titan supercomputer, August 2, 2019.
Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/01/02/big-iron-afterlife-how-ornls...
Image credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL
Thomas Howe examines the pipes under Mira that will help keep the supercomputer's temperatures stable.
Photo by Susan Coghlan
Image courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory
Ronald Grover and GM colleagues Jian Gao, Venkatesh Gopalakrishnan, and Ramachandra Diwakar are using the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), to improve combustion models for diesel passenger car engines with an ultimate goal of accelerating innovative engine designs while meeting strict emissions standards.
Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2018/02/07/gm-revs-up-diesel-combustion...
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."
2013. Mark Hereld, scientist/artist, has created a one-of-a-kind mural showcasing the computational science done at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Mira, the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world, is capable of 10.1 petaflops.
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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A photo from behind the set of The Sarah Jane Adventures, showing the small laptop that plays the 'real' Mr. Smith supercomputer!
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have performed record simulations using all 1,572,864 cores of Sequoia, the largest supercomputer in the world.
About the photo:
OSIRIS simulation on Sequoia of the interaction of a fast-ignition-scale laser with a dense DT plasma. The laser field is shown in green, the blue arrows illustrate the magnetic field lines at the plasma interface and the red/yellow spheres are the laser-accelerated electrons that will heat and ignite the fuel.
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.
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.
An innovative, energy-saving approach to cooling Argonne's Blue Gene/P supercomputer was recognized with an Environmental Sustainability (EStar) award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Read the full story »
Design by Sana Sandler / Courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
Nuclear physicists are using the nation’s most powerful supercomputer, Titan, at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) to study particle interactions important to energy production in the Sun and stars and to propel the search for new physics discoveries. OLCF is a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2018/02/07/particle-interactions-calcul...
In June 2018, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center invited employees to submit images of "What you love about Goddard?" Is it the science? The missions? Your colleagues? The collegial atmosphere? The park-like setting? Goddard employees at the Greenbelt campus, Wallops, GISS, IV&V shared images that represent just that.
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People—left to right: 1. August Morin, 2. Jordan Caraballo-Vega, 3. Thomas Favata, 4. Paulo Paz, 5. Matt Stroud, 6. Carly Robbins
Subject: NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Summer 2018 interns visit the Discover supercomputer on their first day of work.
Facility: NCCS Climate Computing Facility
Date: June 4, 2018
What We Love: We love working with smart, energetic interns every summer! The mentoring goes both ways as they bring in fresh ideas and perspectives, challenging us to expand our thinking.
Photographer: Jarrett Cohen
Psychologist Susan Harris (JULIE CHRISTIE) undergoes mind-conditioning by a supercomputer desiring to procreate in MGM's tale of terror, "Demon Seed," a United Artists release.
One of the units of a NEC SX-6 vector supercomputer. This set of photos was taken shortly before this system was decommissioned.
Out of this world public domain images from NASA. All original images and many more can be found from the NASA Image Library
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: www.rawpixel.com/board/418580/nasa
Currently in development for delivery in late 2021, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Frontier supercomputer will help guide researchers to new discoveries at exascale.
Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/frontier/
This is an SGI Altix 4700 supercomputer with 128P and 320GB of RAM, running Linux (SLES9 with SGI ProPack 4).
In English: This is a big computer (my "day job").
This is on the lift tool that came with the first part of the delivery of our new IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer.
At the home of America’s most powerful supercomputer, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), researchers often simulate millions or billions of dynamic atoms to study complex problems in science and energy.
Finding fast, user-friendly ways to organize and analyze all this data is the job of the OLCF Advanced Data and Workflow Group and computer scientists like Benjamín Hernández, who developed a new visualization tool called SIGHT for OLCF users.
This SIGHT visualization is from a project led by University of Virginia’s Leonid Zhigilei to explore how lasers transform a metal surface.
Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2018/02/07/new-discoveries-within-sight/
The Faces of Summit series shares stories of people working to stand up America’s next top supercomputer for open science, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit. The next-generation machine is scheduled to come online in 2018.
OLCF high-performance computing systems engineer Scott Atchley leads efforts to deploy Summit’s burst buffer, a reliable, high-speed storage layer that sits between the machine’s computing and file systems. Atchley’s track record for using technology to bolster productivity dates back to the early days of his career as a sales and marketing professional in his family’s boat manufacturing business. Credit: Jason Richards/ORNL
+ Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2017/12/20/faces-of-summit-bursting-wit...
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocomputing
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.
Ying Wai Li’s research has provided valuable insight into parallel computing that aids in reducing computing time on systems such as Titan, America’s most powerful supercomputer.
Li, a research and development computational scientist at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has identified and resolved bottlenecks that occur within Monte Carlo algorithms—computational tools that rely on statistical probability to estimate configurations or solutions. By targeting and resolving these computational speed bumps, Li has provided a pathway to perform the computer simulation at least ten times faster.
Li was invited to share her findings at four conferences in 2017, including two this summer: Conference on Computational Physics (CCP) and Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference (PASC17).
In addition to the opportunity to present her own findings, Li emphasizes that conferences such as PASC and CCP are a valuable opportunity to meet peers and take a big-picture look at the state of the field.
Photo courtesy of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre.
Read more: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2017/08/08/olcf-staff-member-shares-wor...
A software enhanced photo...it took a supercomputer running instructions at near the speed of light for a month and this was all it could do.
Bredesen Center Post Doc Shang Gao standing in front of the Summit supercomputer. Gao works with AI-Driven Biosystems Modeling at ORNL.
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.
SEQUOIA EARNED THE NUMBER ONE RANKING ON THE INDUSTRY STANDARD TOP500 LIST OF THE WORLD'S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS RELEASED ON JUNE 18, 2012.
Sequoia is dedicated to NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing program for stewardship of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, a joint effort from LLNL, Los Alamos and Sandia National laboratories. It is primary water cooled and consists of 96 racks; 98,304 compute nodes; 1.6 million cores; and 1.6 petabytes of memory. Sequoia was built for NNSA by IBM. It is scheduled for deployment in fall 2012.
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