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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.
A Knox College student working on part of computer science faculty David Bunde's research project, developing software for parallel processing supercomputers.
The computers — called Luna and Surge — are located at computing centers in Reston, Virginia and Orlando, Florida. They are now running at 2.89 petaflops each for a new total of 5.78 petaflops of operational computing capacity, up from 776 teraflops of processing power last year.
... trying to stay focused while passing through a time warp. I think this was generated by a science fiction novel I just finished, "Footprints of God" by Greg Isles. Here's a review:
In The Footprints of God, author Greg Iles has combined scientific facts and religion in a most dexterous manner to create a fantastic and horrifyingly believable scenario.
Is David Tennant going mad, is he plain delusional, or is he telling the unvarnished and horrifying truth? These are the questions which race through psychiatrist Dr. Rachel Weiss’ mind when her patient Tennant tells her a fantastic story about an unimaginably fast and powerful supercomputer and the obsessed people behind it.
Professor of Ethics Dr. David Tennant had been appointed by the President of the United States to oversee the ultra-secret Project Trinity, a project that began as a means to build the world’s first and fastest quantum computer. Using the government’s unlimited resources, one of the most influential men in the development of modern-day computers hires some of the top brains in the world, notably Nobel prize winners, to take part in and help develop this unprecedented venture. Using a highly advanced super MRI, the top people in this project including Tennant, are scanned and their neurological models stored for future use by the computer. But as a result of the unusual scanning procedure, they all develop some curious ailment -- narcolepsy in Tennant’s case, in the throes of which he has the most curious and lifelike dreams about the evolution of the universe and more peculiarly, about Jesus.
As Tennant and one other scientist, Andrew Fielding, have some grave concerns over the medical and ethical aspects of the Trinity project and manage to have it suspended. Soon after, Fielding dies and Tennant knows for certain that he was murdered. Now it’s up to Tennant to stop this dangerously ambitious project from ever happening. When it becomes obvious that the scientists themselves have been split apart by greed and megalomania, there is no one except Rachel whom Tennant can trust. Unable to contact the president, Tennant and Rachel are soon on the run as Geli Bauer, Trinity’s beautifully dangerous and highly efficient head of security, deems them a risk that must be eliminated at all costs. But Geli’s not the only opponent they have to face.
Is all this a part of Tennant’s sick paranoiacal delusions or is there some truth to what he claims?
Genetic/quantum/DNA supercomputers – they’ve become the favorite feature around which some of today’s most famous authors have based their latest hi-tech thrillers. What sets Iles’ work apart is the religious aspect of his story that is not only fantastic but which also contains a truth that cannot be denied no matter how fantastic it all seems. This is not a story about computers/secrets being stolen and Rambo-like spies sent to recover it; this story is, in fact, all about the fundamental struggle between man and his greatest enemy -- his own unlimited intelligence -- and the fruit of this intelligence. Iles has even provided God’s perspective on this whole scenario through the character of David Tennant, adding a fresh dimension to the story. The characterizations are in-depth, compelling and authentic. The plot contains plenty of the usual thriller elements such as car chases, disguises, computer hacking, murderous attempts and the expected miraculous escapes of the main protagonists from impossible situations. The theological aspects of The Footprints of God have a surreal feel to them; they’re not exactly preachy nor are they fully believable, yet there is something so basically right about the concept that it all somehow fits beautifully. It is this quality for which Greg Iles is to be lauded and which makes this a book to remember. This fact that this book is based on a strong scientific concept, which has the terrifying prospect of becoming a reality all too soon makes it unbearably effective, exciting as well as bloodcurdling.
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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
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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ROADRUNNER BASE CAPACITY SYSTEM AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY (LANL) IS NOW AT MORE THAN 70 TERAFLOPS OPERATING SPEED.
Roadrunner, a hybrid supercomputer, uses a video game chip to propel performance to petaflop/s speeds capable of more than a thousand trillion calculations per second.
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At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Cray XT5 Kraken, managed by the University of Tennessee and funded by the National Science Foundation, is the world's fastest academic supercomputer.
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PICTURED ARE THE EARLY STAGES OF INTEGRATION OF THE ASCI WHITE SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM AT THE LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, UNVEILED IN AUGUST, 2001. ASCI WHITE IS COMPOSED OF 8,192 COMMERCIAL IBM PROCESSORS, HAVING 6.2 TERABYTES OF MEMORY AND 160 TERABYTES OF STORAGE SPACE IN ABOUT 7,000 DISK DRIVES.
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Hopper is a supercomputer housed at NERSC. The front panels of its racks are painted with a picture of Grace Hopper.
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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.
This is a photo of the front of a cluster computer system. It was taken with the room lights off and a two second exposure. I held the camera strap and swung it back and forth to generate the effect.
Bernstein strives to learn more about the universe through the Blue Gene/P supercomputer.
Argonne has received significant funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), allowing us to accomplish a number of important goals while putting Americans back to work. We've interviewed several ARRA-funded employees to see how their new job has changed their lives.
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
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Location of alleged NSA (National Security Agency) tap using a Narus supercomputer for mass-surveillance of national and international telephone and internet communications.
A point of interest in the warrantless-wiretapping scandal.
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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.
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