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This wasn't part of the tour, but there was a Cray just lying around so I snapped a quick picture of it.
The front display panel for status monitoring on the front of the Cray CX1. Apologies for low-res from my cellphone!
Erik Scott talks to students at UNC about the re-location and installation of the Topsail supercomputer in the Genome Sciences building in Chapel Hill.
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
The space in front of Edison is wide open and reserved for the 50 cabinets of Knight's Landing that will be added to Cori in summer 2016
This is a supercomputer, used to perform extremely complex calculations such as the effects of a nuclear weapon, or the changes brought on by global warming.
Convex C240.
Museo de equipos antiguos del CESCA.
Centre de Serveis CientÃfics i Acadèmics de Catalunya
Centro de Servicios CientÃficos y Académicos de Cataluña.
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.
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.
Argonne’s Polaris supercomputer provides advanced capabilities for workloads involving simulation, data analysis and artificial intelligence tasks.
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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 19:58 BST
105mm 1/400 sec f/2.8 ISO 1600
(B & W conversion, cropped)
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.
Cool holographic stickers on the fans! One of the 180mm case fans will be blowing air directly into these intake vents. That should make overclocking these cards much easier.
Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: bit.ly/1jolBYY
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between eight and 30 times the sun's mass explodes as a supernova. Neutron stars pack about 1.5 times the mass of the sun — equivalent to about half a million Earths — into a ball just 12 miles (20 km) across.
As the simulation begins, we view an unequally matched pair of neutron stars weighing 1.4 and 1.7 solar masses. They are separated by only about 11 miles, slightly less distance than their own diameters. Redder colors show regions of progressively lower density.
As the stars spiral toward each other, intense tides begin to deform them, possibly cracking their crusts. Neutron stars possess incredible density, but their surfaces are comparatively thin, with densities about a million times greater than gold. Their interiors crush matter to a much greater degree densities rise by 100 million times in their centers. To begin to imagine such mind-boggling densities, consider that a cubic centimeter of neutron star matter outweighs Mount Everest.
By 7 milliseconds, tidal forces overwhelm and shatter the lesser star. Its superdense contents erupt into the system and curl a spiral arm of incredibly hot material. At 13 milliseconds, the more massive star has accumulated too much mass to support it against gravity and collapses, and a new black hole is born. The black hole's event horizon — its point of no return — is shown by the gray sphere. While most of the matter from both neutron stars will fall into the black hole, some of the less dense, faster moving matter manages to orbit around it, quickly forming a large and rapidly rotating torus. This torus extends for about 124 miles (200 km) and contains the equivalent of 1/5th the mass of our sun.
Scientists think neutron star mergers like this produce short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Short GRBs last less than two seconds yet unleash as much energy as all the stars in our galaxy produce over one year.
The rapidly fading afterglow of these explosions presents a challenge to astronomers. A key element in understanding GRBs is getting instruments on large ground-based telescopes to capture afterglows as soon as possible after the burst. The rapid notification and accurate positions provided by NASA's Swift mission creates a vibrant synergy with ground-based observatories that has led to dramatically improved understanding of GRBs, especially for short bursts.
This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011530/index.html
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Motherboard, CPU & cooler, 4 hard drives 1/2 the RAM & cooler, card reader, and Blu-Ray/DVD drive, some of the wiring done. Wireless PCI network adaptor, ESATA outlets, boot SSD and misc. needed cables/connectors still to come. i may still make some changes in order to the wiring to insure the cleanest airflow. All those Mom's were right, neatness counts! Here is the neat 'trick' Silverstone has done with this case, they turned the motherboard 90 degrees clockwise. this is to improve cooling and because the video cards hang supported by their attachment to the top of the case there is no extra strain on the cards or the motherboard connectors.
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.
This is a blade full of FPGA, which are processors. Unlike CPU in your computer that can do anything you want, those FPGAs can handle just one thing, but can do it extremely fast.
The ILLIAC IV was one of the most infamous supercomputers ever in a series of research machines, ILLIACs, from the University of Illinois. Key to the ILLIAC IV design was fairly high parallelism with up to 256 processors, used to allow the machine to work on large data sets in what would later be known as vector processing. The machine was finally ready for operation in 1976, after a decade of development that was now massively late, massively over budget, and outperformed by existing commercial machines like the Cray-1.