ISC – the largest HPC conference in Europe – just announced that it will be giving the Human Brain project, led by Dr. Henry Markram of EPFL, a permanent platform at ISC to share their latest research findings for the next 10 years. Their first talk “Supercomputing & the Human Brain Project – Following Brain [...]
Daniel Duffy (Lead System Architect) and William Putman (Research Meteorologist) of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center present the challenges facing global climate modeling today. In particular they discuss the requirements of high resolution modeling: the need for powerful computing resources [...]
Rich Loft, Director of Technology and Development at the Computing Lab of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Aaron Andersen (Deputy Director for Operations at NCAR) have been involved from the beginning in the design of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC). NWSC has been operational since October 2012 and hosts the Yellowstone supercomputer, [...]
As is tradition, Rich Brueckner of insideHPC visited the Swiss hpc-ch booth at the SC12 conference in Salt Lake City. Rich describes some of the hot topics at SC12, including the emergence of new accelerators from NVIDIA and Intel, and new liquid cooling technologies.
After a long trip we’ve arrived in Salt Lake City. The snow storm made the trip to Utah more exciting than expected(!). Christian and Davide posed for a photo with the parcel containing our booth materials. On Sunday we (Angela, Christian, Davide, Hussein, Michele and Johannes) spent the day assembling the booth, and here is [...]
