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High-resolution global atmospheric modeling run on the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., provides a unique tool to study the role of weather in Earth's climate system. The Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5) is capable of simulating worldwide weather at resolutions of 10 to 3.5 kilometers (km).
This portrait of global aerosols was produced by a GEOS-5 simulation at a 10-kilometer resolution. Dust (red) is lifted from the surface, sea salt (blue) swirls inside cyclones, smoke (green) rises from fires, and sulfate particles (white) stream from volcanoes and fossil fuel emissions.
Image credit: William Putman, NASA/Goddard
NASA Langley LaRC (Langley Research Center). This is from 1992 or so, when I was in high school. There was a program at this building where we got to work around the supercomputers (HPC). Years later I randomly ended up working in the same building at the distributed active archive center, one of the few supercomputing facilities in Hampton Roads. 1.2Terabytes of nearline storage in the picture. I've got more than that on the home network for storing tv shows and music. One of the machines is now at the Virginia Air & Space museum (VASC)
See the blog post for more info: Tour of NASA Ames Research Center
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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!
Manuele Monti, Energy Derivatives Quantitative Trader and Risk Manager, GDF Suez Energia Italia
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.
Backplane cabling of a NEC SX-5 supercomputer. The picture is taken at the supercomputer collection of Cray-Cyber.org, Munich, Germany.
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 the back of the cabinet, showing the various interconnects.
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.
In 1986, I joined Cray Research to support the Engineers and Scientists at GM Research. They worked on applications to support safer cars by modeling car crashes.
Cray Reseach X-MP install at GM Research, 1986
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.
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.
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.
1,792-Core Deskside Personal Supercomputer supporting up to four NVIDIA Tesla C2075 GPU cards and 24x 2.5" or 8x 3.5" hot-swap drive bays
The Cray 1 supercomputer was the fastest computer in the world for a year after its construction.
More importantly, it was a significant departure in aesthetics from the boxy designs typical of computer systems. Cray designed this system to with the goal of making its brand more identifiable. It encouraged its customers in industry to house this system in the lobbies of their headquarters in order to make computing more visible. Moreover, customers were able to order the vertical panels that encircle the system in a variety of color choices.
However, the design was also intended to be functional. It is believed that the round shape allowed for shorter lengths of cable between components. Due to the relationship between time and space that is inherent to electrical cables, this would make for a faster computer. Furthermore, the design may have allowed for better heat dissipation.
Oberlin is among the first liberal arts colleges in the nation to provide undergraduates with access to a supercomputer that can process gigantic data sets.
Photo by Kevin G. Reeves
25/06/2025. Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Chancellor Rachel Reeves visits the Advanced Computer Facility at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, to view the Archer 2 supercomputer. Treasury. Picture by Kirsty O'Connor / Treasury
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 19:59 BST
105mm 1/400 sec f/2.8 ISO 720
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Jianmin Jiang, Full Professor of Media Computing, University of Surrey
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.