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Credit: Dr Paul Williams, University Research Fellow from the University of Reading
Patches of aeroplane turbulence at cruising altitudes on a hypothetical winter day in the 2050s, calculated from supercomputer simulations. Recent research that I have published in Nature Climate Change shows that transatlantic turbulence could become twice as common and 10-40% stronger because of climate change.
Exploration of sound visualizations at "Stallion", 328 Megapixel Tiled Display System at TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center).
Video: vimeo.com/100684899
Visuals in Processing using "Massive Pixel Environment", a library for extending Processing sketches to multi-node tiled displays. tacc.github.io/MassivePixelEnvironment/
This library is developed from scratch at the TACC/ACES Visualization Lab with inspiration from Most Pixels Ever, developed by Daniel Shiffman.
Processing project at Github: github.com/visiophone/staliumVizz
Music: Submersible by LordX / Tim Stutts (lordx.bandcamp.com/)
TACC tacc.utexas.edu/resources/visualization
Thanks Rob Turknet (@robturknett ) and the rest of TACC crew for helping me setting up the system and to João Beira (datagrama.webs.com/) for helping with the camera.
Edited simulation illustration from the Goddard Space Flight Center of the stellar winds produced by the binary star Eta Carinae.
Original caption: In this supercomputer simulation, the stars of Eta Carinae are shown as black dots in a view above their orbital plane. Lighter colors indicate greater densities in the stellar winds produced by each star. At closest approach, the fast wind of the smaller star carves a tunnel in the thicker wind of the larger star. The scene is 20 astronomical units (1.9 billion miles or 2.9 billion km) across, a distance slightly larger than the diameter of Saturn's orbit in our solar system.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/T. Madura
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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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
Karthik Duraisamy, AERO Professor, explains a computer simulation of a shock wave impinging on an airplane wing surface in the Duderstadt Center on March 29, 2016.
ConFlux is designed to enable supercomputer simulations to interface with large datasets and aims to close a gap in the U.S. research computing infrastructure while van guarding the emerging field of data-driven physics.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan - College of Engineering
Erin Barker develops models for material behavior and failure at the microstructure scale and software tools and frameworks for multi-physics simulations.
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Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar tours PNNL.
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Karthik Duraisamy, AERO Professor, explains a computer simulation of a shock wave impinging on an airplane wing surface in the Duderstadt Center on March 29, 2016.
ConFlux is designed to enable supercomputer simulations to interface with large datasets and aims to close a gap in the U.S. research computing infrastructure while van guarding the emerging field of data-driven physics.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan - College of Engineering
Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar tours PNNL.
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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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Auburn’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences has launched a new degree in geospatial and environmental informatics, or GSEI. The university’s supercomputer will help researchers to run past, present and future climate simulations, analyze very large data sets and manipulate global satellite data and imagery. Pictured, from left, are Assistant Professors Sanjiv Kumar and Susan Pan and Research Associate Jia Yang, who are shown studying climate model outputs from Auburn’s supercomputer.
In this 2012 photo, technicians are hard at work installing the Graphic Processing Units that will transform the Jaguar supercomputer into today’s Titan.
Image credit: ORNL
The 6600 was followed by the 7600 - similar in architecture and almost compatible, and using much higher density electronics.
Externally, the blue-glass-and-wood scheme was reminiscent of a much earlier computer, the Telefunken TR4 which came in Mahogany-and-smoked-glass.
Image from a 15-hour forecast of IWV (Integrated Water Vapor); an estimate of the total amount of water in the atmosphere that could become precipitation. CalWater 2015 provides an opportunity to test new forecast methods by challenging them with observational data. Hot colors (red) indicate high values; cool colors (blue) indicate low values. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the University of California, San Diego are providing modeling, data management, visualization resources, and expertise to CalWater 2015. Andrew Martin/SIO and John Helly/SDSC, Scripps Oceanography
A model for a brochure on a supercomputer system.
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THE DEVICE, DEVELOPED AT SNL, ENCRYPTS DATA AT MORE THAN 6.7 BILLION BITS PER SECOND-----10 TIMES FASTER THAN ANY OTHER KNOWN ENCRYPTOR. IT IS MEANT TO PROTECT DATA BEING TRANSMITTED FROM SUPERCOMPUTERS, WORKSTATIONS, TELEPHONES, AND VIDEO TERMINALS. THE DEVICE WAS NOMINATED FOR A 1999 R&D 100 AWARD.
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To stop the children from buying cigarettes while they are asleep, the vending machines turn into Cray supercomputers from the 1970s.
See the blog post for more info: Tour of NASA Ames Research Center
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In keeping with a topic broached earlier, I present the above headline and a few brief quotes from the June 16,2010 edition of the Wyoming State Tribune, Cheyenne's newspaper of record.
Cheyenne, my home town, once again goes bonkers over a new "business". Very high tech, extremely modern and green and all that, but sadly, typical for Cheyenne which plays host to a number of large corporate entities with small local employee bases. The Echostar (Dish Network) worldwide satellite uplink array is a good f'rinstance.
During construction this facility will employ a respectable number of local and regional workers and artisans and upon completion will "serve more than 1,000 educators, students and researchers as they study oceanography, climate change and severe weather forecasting," and none of whom will ever even visit Cheyenne, let alone know where it is, pay any property taxes or buy their groceries there.
It also will provide an archive for historical climate records. This kinda has an Al Gore stench to it if you ask me.
I'm not dissing Cheyenne, or NCAR or or Barack Obama or anyone, really, it just struck me as rather telling that there are no less than ten "ground breakers" (aka incumbent politicians) shown here for a $70 million facility that will have a permanent staff of about twenty, including the janitor.
Oh, and it will contain half a billion dollars worth of computer equipment, all purchased out of state, which will operate at a blinding 1.5 petaflops, "...the second-fastest in the world right now, behind a Department of Energy machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and one spot ahead of a supercomputer in China."
*A petaflop is a quadrillion operations per second. Fast enough to handle Super Mario Brothers, for sure!
Full article w/above clip: www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2010/06/16/news/01top_06-16-...
More on this: www.cisl.ucar.edu/nwsc/
U.S. Department of Energy's Secretary Rick Perry visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory, getting a look at the Titan supercomputer and adding his name to the Cray X1E Phoenix cabinet.
Image credit: ORNL
This was one of the first "super computers" ever built (for the geek in all of you). The Science Museum of London had all this cool geek/ science stuff which was awesome. Nina wasn't too impressed. ;-)
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
A team led by Michael Bussmann, group leader of the Computational Radiation Physics group at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) German research laboratory, recently studied ion acceleration driven by high-intensity lasers using the Cray XK7 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).
Now the team has performed a simulation of a novel laser target that not only describes the physics behind the acceleration but also shows significant agreement with experiments performed by scientists at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).
Thomas Kluge, staff scientist in Bussmann’s group, said simulations on high-performance computing (HPC) resources can lead scientists to an understanding of how to optimize the laser-driven ion acceleration process by altering the initial laser and target conditions.
Image Credit: Axel Huebl, HZDR (Simulation); Peter Hilz, LMU (Experiment); Michael Matheson, ORNL (Visualization)
+ Read the full story: www.olcf.ornl.gov/2018/07/17/titan-helps-scientists-fine-...
From left, Center for Accelerated Application Readiness researchers Thomas Papenbrock, Gaute Hagen and Gustav Jansen discuss improving codes that must run on increasingly more powerful supercomputers.
See the blog post for more info: Tour of NASA Ames Research Center
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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.
For more information or additional images:
(202) 586-5251
EnergyTechnologyVisualsCollectionETVC@hq.doe.gov
www.flickr.com/photos/departmentofenergy/collections/7215...