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Linas Bukauskas, Vice Dean for IT, Vilnius University
9 September 2013, Brussels
Through years of steady investment and research, high performance computing in Europe has started paying returns to many parts of the economy - aerospace, pharmaceuticals, energy, automotive, the environment and climate research. But the best could be yet to come, as computing powers worldwide jump upwards and HPC becomes an essential tool for competitiveness across the European economy. In short, supercomputers will be for all, no longer a few.
These server racks stand within the Theory and Computer Sciences Building and hold part of the lab's Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, one of the more powerful machines on Earth at the time of its construction.
Currently ten cabinets of Cray XC40. Fifty-something more cabinets will be added as the Phase II deployment in summer 2016.
Europe's fastest supercomputer, an IBM capable of making 40 trillion
calculations per second, was booted up for the first time yesterday in a chapel
of the Polytechnical University in Barcelona, Spain
[caption from Newsday; image by Fernando Bague from the Associated Press]
On June 22, 2023, Argonne National Laboratory, Intel and HPE announced that the installation progress of the Aurora Supercomputer is complete. In this photo, the installation team celebrates all 10,624 blades installed together in front of the Aurora Supercomputer. (Credit: Argonne National Laboratory)
Andrea R. Beccari, Drug Discovery Platform Manager, Dompé
9 September 2013, Brussels
Through years of steady investment and research, high performance computing in Europe has started paying returns to many parts of the economy - aerospace, pharmaceuticals, energy, automotive, the environment and climate research. But the best could be yet to come, as computing powers worldwide jump upwards and HPC becomes an essential tool for competitiveness across the European economy. In short, supercomputers will be for all, no longer a few.
The Control Data 6600 was a supercomputer that, for a time, was the fastest computer in the world. While it appears to be a case study for poor cable management practices, the layout shown is the correct one for this machine. The cables are of specific lengths in order to accurately calibrate the operation of the machine. This is possible due to the relationship between time and space that is inherent to an electrical cable. In a cable of a given length, an electrical signal will always take a given amount of time to travel its length. This established relationship between time and space is similar to that which is explored by Scott McCloud in his essay "Time Frames." McCloud explains the links between time and space that exist in the comic book format of storytelling. He points out that it takes readers a given amount of time to move from frame to frame on a page and that this amount of time can be controlled through the manipulation of those frames. This principle in its most basic form can also be applied to any reading of the written word.
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
In front of the Hyperwall, introducing the Columbia Supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center today.
www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6587
Ink on paper
12 x 9"
In December 2019, ECMWF's Council of Member States gave ECMWF authorisation to sign a contract with Atos for the supply of the BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer. (Photo: Stephen Shepherd)
More information: www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2020/ecmwf-signs...
Data Center - Bull Systems.
The Diefenbunker is a four-story, 100,000 square foot underground bunker, built between 1959 and 1961. During the Cold War it was intended to house 535 Canadian government officials and military officers in the event of a nuclear war. It served as Canadian Forces Station Carp until 1994.
For years it protected us from 75 feet underground and we knew virtually nothing about it. Today, it operates as a not-for-profit, charitable museum and boasts award winning tours and programs.
In December 1999, IBM announced $100 million research initiative of a five-year effort to build a massively parallel computer. The Blue Gene® supercomputer line was born from a visionary IBM initiative to develop a hugely scalable and highly reliable scientific computing platform. The breakthrough BlueGene supercomputer design uses many small, low-power embedded chips each connected through five specialized networks inside the system. Today Blue Gene ranks as the number one, number four, number five, and number seven fastest supercomputers on the TOP500 list along with 9 other entries in the top 50, and 23 entries in the top 100.
The Universidad de la Frontera (UFRO) began operating a new high performance computing equipment with scientific capability. Its installation is part of the National Laboratory for High Performance Computing (NLHPC) project, lead by the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the University of Chile, with support and funding from the Associative Investigation Program (PIA) of CONICYT. April 18, 2013.
A few weeks ago a burnt and photographed my old Pentium 4 - after someone kicking it over and recent heavy rainfall the computer is now surrounded with water
pentium 4 update - Best Viewed Large on black
Dr. Guang Gao, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, along with Professor Roberto Giorgi, an associate professor at the Università degli Studi di Siena in Siena, Italy and primary investigator (Coordinator / Scientific Manager) of the TeraFlux project. The TeraFlux project seeks to exploit dataflow parallelism in teradevice computing and propose a complete solution to harness large-scale parallelism in an efficient way. The University of Delaware recently joined the TeraFlux project and received a grant connected to the project from the EU.
Edited MODIS image of the Great Lakes region of North America on a very cold day. Some parts of this scene were colder than the surface of (some warmer parts of) Mars (the equator of Mars in the summer actually has a very pleasant temperature that is comfortable for humans - too bad about the thin atmosphere there). Color/processing variant.
Image source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144489/arctic-weather-pl...
Original caption: Desperately cold weather is now gripping the Midwest and Northern Plains of the United States, as well as interior Canada. The culprit is a familiar one: the polar vortex.
A large area of low pressure and extremely cold air usually swirls over the Arctic, with strong counter-clockwise winds that trap the cold around the Pole. But disturbances in the jet stream and the intrusion of warmer mid-latitude air masses can disturb this polar vortex and make it unstable, sending Arctic air south into middle latitudes.
That has been the case in late January 2019. Forecasters are predicting that air temperatures in parts of the continental United States will drop to their lowest levels since at least 1994, with the potential to break all-time record lows for January 30 and 31. With clear skies, steady winds, and snow cover on the ground, at least 90 million Americans could experience temperatures at or below zero degrees Fahrenheit (-18° Celsius), according to the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS).
The map above shows air temperatures at 2 meters (around 6.5 feet above the ground) at 09:00 Universal Time (4 a.m. Eastern Standard Time) on January 29, 2019, as represented by the Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5. GEOS-5 is a global atmospheric model that uses mathematical equations run through a supercomputer to represent physical processes.
The figure above is not a traditional forecast, but a reanalysis of model input fixed in time—a representation of atmospheric conditions near dawn on January 29, 2019. Measurements of temperature, moisture, wind speeds and directions, and other conditions are compiled from NASA satellites and other sources, and then added to the model to closely simulate observed reality. Note how some portions of the Arctic are close to the freezing point—significantly warmer than usual for the dark of mid-winter—while masses of cooler air plunge toward the interior of North America.
You can almost feel that cold in this natural-color image, acquired on January 27, 2019, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Cloud streets and lake-effect snow stretch across the scene, as frigid Arctic winds blew over the Great Lakes.
NWS meteorologists predicted that steady northwest winds (10 to 20 miles per hour) were likely to add to the misery, causing dangerous wind chills below -40°F (-40°C) in portions of 12 states. A wind chill of -20°F can cause frostbite in as little as 30 minutes, according to the weather service.
Meteorologists at The Washington Post pointed out that temperatures on January 31, 2019, in the Midwestern U.S. will be likely colder than those on the North Slope of Alaska.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Michael Carlowicz.
See the blog post for more info: Tour of NASA Ames Research Center
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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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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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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
Atos Senior Executive Vice-President Adrian Gregory, CEO UK&I, and ECMWF Director-General Florence Rabier signed a four-year contract for the supply of an Atos BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer to ECMWF. (Photo: Stephen Shepherd)
More information: www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2020/ecmwf-signs...
HASTAC II
Second Annual HASTAC Conference
TechnoTravels/TeleMobility: HASTAC in Motion
MAY 22-24, 2008
University of California, Irvine and University of California, Los Angeles
QCD SUPERCOMPUTER
Kneeling:
Shatoshi Ozaki, DO, Nicholas Samios, BNL/RBRC
Back Row: From Left
Praveen Chaudhari, BNL, Yoshiharu Doi, RIKEN, Norman Christ, Columbia U, Edward McFadden, ITD, T.D. Lee, Columbia U, and Koji Kaya, RIKEN.
Large. Surely man's technology can go no further than this. This advanced super computer can tell your personality simply by analyzing a sample of handwriting. And it can do it in Spanish too! Look at all those flashing lights!
Participants in the "Press Conference: Swiss Supercomputer for the SDGs" session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 17 January. Congress Centre - Briefing Center Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
Louisiana over the past couple of years, has built a fiber optics network connecting supercomputers at Louisiana's six major research universities. In addition, 5 of the universities were provided with IBM P5-575 AIX clusters.
The one at UL Lafayette is named Zeke, after professor Z.L. “Zeke”
Loflin, a former Mathematics Department head and computer science pioneer..
This is a shot of the front cabinet, with the door open. You can see the nodes comprising the P5.
IBM set up a food truck, where chefs executed recipes cooked up by its Watson supercomputer. Here we have ceviche with a fried plantain chip. Delicious!
In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $30 million award to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin to acquire and deploy a new large scale supercomputing system, Stampede 2, as a strategic national resource to provide high-performance computing capabilities for thousands of researchers across the U.S.