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17/07/2025. Bristol, United Kingdom. Secretary of State Peter Kyle switched on Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful supercomputer housed at the University of Bristol. Picture by Alecsandra Dragoi / DSIT
SHOWN IS THE JOULE SUPERCOMPUTER WITH COMPLETED SKIN AT NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY.
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NERSC CRAY EDISON SUPERCOMPUTER CLUSTER AT THE OAKLAND SCIENTIFIC FACILITY.
Edison is a Cray XC30 with peak performance of 2.57 petaflops/second, 133,824 compute cores, 357 terabytes of memory and 7.56 petabytes of disk.
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Though the construction of the Theory and Computer Sciences Building was announced in 2007, to me the interior feels very much like '60s brutalist construction. Which is not a critique at all; I'm rather fond of that style.
I love the concrete and sharp geometries here, along with the sand garden filling the inner courtyard spaces. The repeated vertical and horizontal lines help make the inside feel very modern, in keeping with the buildings purpose.
It houses Argonne's Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, among other things.
Comparing cultural variation two Manga titles - page level.
Each visualization shows 1048576 Manga pages.
Each page represented as a point.
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To create visualizations, we measured each page separately on NERSC supercomputers and plotted the results:
X axis - brightness mean
Y axis - entropy
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In the middle graph, red points are pages from "Captain Tsubasa" (artist: Takahashi Yoichi)
The graph on the right, red points are pages from "Anatolia Story (artist: Chie Shinohara)
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These visualizations demonstrate how cultural analytics allows to analyze and map variability of cultural artifacts (in this case, stylistic variability). The books belonging to Captain Tsubasa have less visual variability than the books of Anatolia Story. Additionally, their distributions have different shapes. While the books of the former all cluster together, the books of the latter form two distinct clusters.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, Doug Kothe, briefs Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks during a visit to Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, Aug. 17, 2022. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer on June 8, 2018.
With a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second-or 200 petaflops, Summit will be eight times more powerful than ORNL’s previous top-ranked system, Titan. For certain scientific applications, Summits will also be capable of more than three billion mixed precision calculations per second, or 3.3 exaops. Summit will provide unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence (AI), among other domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously impractical or impossible.
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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
Though the construction of the Theory and Computer Sciences Building was announced in 2007, to me the interior feels very much like '60s brutalist construction. Which is not a critique at all; I'm rather fond of that style.
I love the concrete and sharp geometries here, along with the sand garden filling the inner courtyard spaces. The repeated vertical and horizontal lines help make the inside feel very modern, in keeping with the buildings purpose.
It houses Argonne's Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, among other things.
17/07/2025. Bristol, United Kingdom. Secretary of State Peter Kyle switched on Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful supercomputer housed at the University of Bristol. Picture by Alecsandra Dragoi / DSIT
Compute section of Colosse with multiple processing nodes in several cabinets. The turquoise cabling is infiniband.
Marco, 28, Helsinki.
This was made on a book release party for Our Little Sea -book (http://panamacollective.typepad.com/ourlittlesea/). Marco is working as a computer operator for a supercomputer and the tattoo is the computer's model.
Ginni Rometty and Dr Eric Brown spoke with more than 600 6th, 7th and 8th graders about the role of technology in everyday lives, and about IBM's Watson supercomputer. The students treated the IBMers like rock stars. Who says IBM isn't cool?
Control Data Corporation, United States
Caption Reads: Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray once claimed that he needed only one week to design this stand-alone version of his earlier CDC 160. The CDC 160A was often used for dedicated production control applications such as operating typesetting machines and mechanical lathes. It came with a high-speed paper-tape recorder, paper tape punch and a typewriter. A FORTRAN compiler was also available for those who wanted to write their own programs. Gift of James Ousles, X92.82
Memory: 32K (12-bit) Core
Daniela Ushizima (NERSC), Lev Manovich, and Jeremy Douglass in front of one of NERSC supercomputers.
"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. As one of the largest facilities in the world devoted to providing computational resources and expertise for basic scientific research, NERSC is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC is located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California." (source: www.nersc.gov/about/).
In the Fall 2009, we assembled a data set containing 1,074,790 unique manga pages. We then used our custom software system running on a supercomputer at at (NERSC) to analyze visual features of these pages (funded by Humanities High Performance Award from NEH Digital Humanities Office.) Currently we are working on a series of articles which discuss our methods and discoveries - as well as the larger theoretical questions around quantitative analysis of large sets of cultural visual data.
Last week we visited Oakland Scientific Facility (part of NERSC) to present our research and discuss strategies for further collaboration. The visit was organized by Dr. Daniela Ushizima. Daniela who is a member of Analytics/Visualization and Math groups in Computation Research at the Lauwrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was responsible for getting our project going at NERSC which was no small task. Thank you, Daniela!
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks adds her signature to a door, during a visit to Frontier, the world's fastest supercomputer, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., Aug. 17, 2022. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)
From the Bradbury Science Museum at Los Alamos. I highly recommend this place, especially if you have kids with the tiniest inclination to things engineering and science.
Back when this was new, microprocessors cruised along at 1MHz, the 10231 chips I recall from my telecom days: a dual data latch with a toggle rate around 250MHz give or take. ECL was known for being fast, power hungry, and expensive. This board I promise would get hot enough to fry an egg without air cooling!!
Using Space to Scale Uncharted Mountains
Many mountains on Earth remain undiscovered. Join space physicist and mountaineer Dr Suzie Imber to find out how space satellites, supercomputers, and a passion for exploration has led to her first ascents of previously unknown mountains in the Andes.
Dr Suzie Imber is an Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Leicester and an experienced mountaineer.
19:30-20:00 – LIVE Space
National Space Centre, Leicester
07.10.2017 19:57 BST
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I stopped in at the Science Museum when i was picking up my new bike. I have seen most of the displays before so I didn't take many photos. This particular display of an original Cray supercomputer did catch my eye though. I want to know what Warrick thinks of the wiring! (the fine blue and white wires you can see on the inside).
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Oct. 16, 2015) -- The U.S. Army introduced its newest supercomputer, Excalibur, which will help to ensure Soldiers have the technological advantage on the battlefield, officials said.
The Excalibur is the 19th most powerful computer in the world. About 50 officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center.
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"The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed, manufactured, and marketed by Cray Research. The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976, and it went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history. The Cray-1's architect was Seymour Cray and the chief engineer was Cray Research co-founder Lester Davis." (from Wikipedia). This model is exposed at the Science Museum in London, UK.
Directly taken in b&w.
NATIONAL ENERGY RESEARCH SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (NERSC) HOPPER SUPERCOMPUTER CLUSTER AT THE OAKLAND SCIENTIFIC FACILITY (OSF).
Shown are the Cray ECOphlex water-cooled supercomputers.
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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 Pegasus was a supercomputer built by Manchester-based Ferranti in 1959. 40 examples were built through 1962, and this was the 25th, built for Skandia Insurance in Sweden. It was one of the first computers to be mass-produced, rather than being built by research institutions as a one-off; its price in 1959 was £45,000, at a time when an average Manchester home was said to be just £1,200.
The Pegasus used vacuum tubes as flip-flop switches; modern computers use transistors in silicon chips. This is considered to be the last vacuum tube computer that still works.
The Pegasus was used for such calculations as the stress load on the Comet airliner fuselage (during the investigation for its breakups), structural load on such buildings as the Sydney Opera House, and guided missile trajectories.
Ph.D. students (left to right) Fuad Jamour, Ibrahim Abdelaziz and Ehab Abdelhamid attended #SC16 to present their work on optimizing the use of supercomputers such as the KAUST Shaheen Cray XC40. The team conducted research under the direction of KAUST Associate Professor Panos Kalnis and with fellow Ph.D. student Zuhair Khayyat. By Nicholas Demille.