Articles tagged with Supercomputing
The EMSL's Chinook supercomputer, commissioned for research, can perform over 160 trillion calculations per second, ranking it among the world's top 40 fastest computers. It will aid in understanding complex biological, chemical, and physical processes to address environmental and energy challenges.
Huygens, the Dutch national supercomputer, establishes a new world record in Go by winning a 19x19 competition with a 7-stones handicap. The victory is made possible by the French software MoGo TITAN, which runs on Huygens and utilizes the Monte-Carlo Tree Search algorithm.
Researchers at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility are continually seeking ways to further reduce the power needed to operate supercomputers. By leveraging the Chicago area's cold climate to chill water used for cooling, they save up to $25,000 per month in electricity costs. The team is also experimenting with varying chilled wate...
Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center are using the Google-IBM CluE cluster to develop new software for making cloud computing clusters more accessible and efficient. They aim to improve data management and analysis capabilities, offering a complement to conventional supercomputing architectures.
Researchers are exploring petascale computing to model complex systems like severe storms, enabling better prediction and potentially saving lives. The technology will also facilitate the analysis of large datasets in fields such as high-energy physics.
The new supercomputer will help researchers better understand complex plasma effects in the ITER fusion reactor through advanced computer simulations. The HPC-FF system will be optimized for European fusion scientists' simulation programs and will provide 101 teraflop/s computing power.
Choong-Seock Chang, a NYU researcher, has received a massive DOE award to simulate plasma behavior on the world's most powerful computer. His goal is to advance research in plasma fusion, which could provide environmentally safe electricity for over a million years.
The Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program has awarded 28 projects at Argonne National Laboratory with $400 million hours of computing time. These projects will focus on various fields including energy, biology, climate change, astrophysics, and more.
A team led by researchers at San Diego Supercomputer Center successfully completed record-setting, petascale-level simulations of the earth's inner structure. They achieved a shortest period of 1.15 seconds and 161 teraflops, using 149,784 cores.
Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility won the High Performance Computing Challenge Award for its outstanding energy efficiency and computational power. The ALCF achieved scores of 103 GUPS and 5080 Gflops in two categories, showcasing its ability to deliver stellar results while using a fraction of the power needed for supercomputers.
Jaguar, the Oak Ridge supercomputer, has a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops, enabling researchers to solve complex problems faster and explore dynamic systems. The system has already run scientific applications in days, sustaining petaflops performance on multiple applications.
The upgraded Oak Ridge National Laboratory supercomputer has achieved a sustained performance of over 1.3 petaflops, enabling researchers to simulate physical processes on an unprecedented scale. The new system will facilitate breakthroughs in climate modeling, renewable energy, and materials science.
A computer model developed by Koos Huijssen predicts sound transmission of improved ultrasound instrument designs, processing large data sets on PC and parallel supercomputers. The model is being used to design a new sonographic transducer at Erasmus University Medical Centre.
Researchers used NASA's Thunderhead supercomputer to simulate dusty disks around sunlike stars, finding that planets as small as Mars can create detectable ring structures. The models provide a way to infer a planet's mass and orbital distance based on dust particle simulations.
The Blue Waters project will enable Iowa State researchers to tackle large-scale problems in fields like genomics and chemistry. The team aims to leverage petascale computing power to advance research and innovation.
Researchers have found that more than half of a proton's spin comes from the orbital motion of its quarks, rather than their spinning. This new theory resolves a long-standing puzzle in physics and agrees with recent experiments and supercomputer calculations.
The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid supercomputer will have a new data analytics and visualization capability, complementing its distinction as the fastest computer in the world for open science. The system, nicknamed Eureka, will enable researchers to explore and visualize data produced by Intrepid.
Researchers have been awarded $4 million to develop software for multithreaded supercomputers, enabling faster analysis of complex problems like power grid stability and biological networks. The new machines can handle large, random datasets more efficiently than traditional systems.
The ETH Zurich and IBM team developed a breakthrough method that combines density measurements with large-scale mechanical analysis of the inner-bone microstructure. This allows clinicians to detect osteoporotic damage more precisely and adjust surgical plates accordingly.
Researchers at UNH have developed a supercomputer using PlayStation3 consoles to simulate the interaction between Earth's magnetic field and the solar wind. The new system can perform up to 8 trillion operations per second, paving the way for future civilian teraflop machines.
The Argonne National Laboratory's IBM Blue Gene/P high-performance computing system is the world's fastest supercomputer for open science, with a peak-performance of 557 Teraflops. This achievement marks the first time an Argonne-based supercomputing system has ranked in the top five of the industry's definitive list.
Los Alamos researchers used the Roadrunner supercomputer to model over a billion visual neurons and trillions of synapses, surpassing the scale of 1 quadrillion computations per second. This achievement throws open the door to achieving human-like cognitive performance in electronic computers.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has installed a new IBM supercomputer called Bluefire, which will accelerate research into climate change and severe weather events. The system, with a peak speed of over 76 teraflops, is expected to rank among the world's top 25 most powerful computers.
The researchers propose designing a cost-effective machine for running climate models and improving predictions. They suggest using about 20 million embedded microprocessors, which would deliver results at a lower cost and power consumption than current conventional supercomputers.
Researchers are simulating Type Ia supernovas to better understand dark energy, a mysterious force causing the universe's expansion. The Blue Gene/P supercomputer will analyze how burning occurs in four possible scenarios leading to these exploding stars.
A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has successfully created an AI character in Second Life that can reason about its own beliefs and predict the behavior of human players. The 'Eddie' character, a 4-year-old child avatar, demonstrates reasoning abilities consistent with those of human children of the same age.
A team of researchers used a supercomputer-powered virtual earthquake program to calculate realistic simulations of megathrust quakes on the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The simulation found that ground motion could be up to twice as large and duration shaking could last up to five minutes, posing major damage to metropolitan areas like S...
The NIST team will use the granted time to model concrete flow under various conditions, improving prediction and measurement of flow properties. The access to the Argonne machine allows for advanced computer modeling impossible with existing facilities.
A new CU-Boulder-led supercomputer simulation models a region of the universe spanning 1.5 billion light-years, aiming to uncover hidden gas clouds containing missing baryons. The study may enable detection of these 'filaments' using future telescopes like the South Pole Telescope and Cornell-Caltech Atacama Telescope.
Researchers solved a longstanding problem of the Cold Dark Matter cosmology model by exposing a critical relationship between interstellar gas and dark matter in galaxy birth. The study showed that dense gas clouds in galaxies form massive stars, which drive 'sloshing' effects that kick dark matter out of the galaxy's center.
Researchers will create detailed computer models of a new proposed type of nuclear reactor, the sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), which can burn highly radioactive materials and operate without using new fuel. The project aims to improve understanding of the physics of the system to design safer reactors.
Computer science researchers at Virginia Tech have received a $300,000 NSF grant to develop virtualization technologies for application-specific operating systems. The project aims to improve performance and utilization on emerging supercomputers built from multi-core processors.
Researchers used supercomputers to simulate galaxy mergers, revealing the formation of a new type of structure - a central disk of gas that can be thousands of light years wide. The simulations predict that the gas in this disk will extract energy from the orbiting black holes, causing them to merge and produce strong gravitational waves.
A team of scientists has conducted molecular simulations to understand the cellulose enzyme complex's role in breaking down tightly bound cellulose into sugars. By discovering key steps in this process, researchers can develop protein engineering strategies to speed up the reaction and produce ethanol more efficiently.
The MONARCH system-on-a-chip demonstrates exceptional compute capacity, flexible data bandwidth capability, and beyond state-of-the-art power efficiency. It has been shown to provide sustained throughput of 64 gigaflops in preliminary tests.
Researchers used massive computer-simulation power to model protein aggregation and its role in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. They found that beta-synuclein blocks harmful structures caused by alpha-synuclein, offering a potential treatment for debilitating diseases.
The US Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded 45 projects 95 million hours of computing time on powerful supercomputers to advance research in various fields, including astrophysics, materials science, and climate research. These awards will enable researchers to create more accurate models, simulate complex processes, an...
Physicist Michael Deem uses supercomputers and disused desktop PCs to catalog mineral designs, creating a database of over 3.4 million zeolite structures. This effort could lead to more efficient catalysts for chemical reactions.
Rensselaer will receive a $2.23 million IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to support new nanotechnology and biotechnology research, helping develop simulation technologies for understanding biological systems and advancing computational science.
A new software system called SPRUCE provides computational resources quickly for emergency applications affecting public health, safety, and security. The system supports urgent computing on both traditional supercomputers and distributed Grids, enabling rapid access to massive resources during emergencies.
Brett Bode has been honored with a 2006 IBM Faculty Award for his work on developing management systems for petascale computing. He will collaborate with IBM to develop software for one of their high-end computing systems, focusing on fault-tolerant control systems.
Rice University has been awarded a $10 million grant to establish a research center focused on designing software tools for high-performance computing systems. The Center for Scalable Application Development Software (CScADS) aims to develop scalable performance models for leadership-class computer facilities.
The new Petascale Data Storage Institute aims to address the huge amounts of data generated by petaflop computers. Collaborating members will focus on collecting field data, disseminating best practices, and developing innovative system solutions for managing petascale data storage.
Astronomers are using supercomputers to study the energy levels of high-temperature atoms in space, which hold the key to understanding black holes. The new calculations reduce error rates by a few percent, providing more accurate data for X-ray telescope observations.
Red Storm excelled in the High Performance Computing Challenge test suite, demonstrating exceptional communication bandwidth and floating-point computation capabilities. The supercomputer achieved 40 times more communications power per teraflop than IBM's Blue Gene system, marking a significant milestone in its architecture.
The new Cluster 1350 system is a 1000-node cluster running Linux, capable of performing over 8.5 trillion calculations per second, making it one of the fastest in the world. This enables researchers to quickly analyze complex DNA and proteins to develop more targeted drugs for human cancer genes and proteins.
The US Department of Energy's INCITE program has awarded 18 million hours of supercomputing time to 15 teams for various research projects. These projects include simulating aircraft design, studying Parkinson's Disease, and understanding climate change.
The SPICE project successfully simulated DNA strands passing through a cell membrane, a crucial process in understanding genetic information transfer. The project utilized a combination of high-performance computing and optical networks to overcome computational challenges.
CERN has been awarded a high-performance computing prize at the Supercomputing 2005 conference. The recognition is due to CERN's pioneering work on the LHC Computing Grid and its collaborative efforts with industrial partners in developing grid technology.
Researchers at Ohio State University are developing a software system to let supercomputers share workload and analyze large amounts of data. This enables faster simulation speeds and improved accuracy in predicting oilfield output, reducing the need for simplification of computer models.
Boston University has reached the 59th position on the TOP500 List of Supercomputing Sites with its new BlueGene/L unit, which will be used by approximately 500 researchers. The supercomputer's computational power will enable research in subnuclear physics, genetics, and space weather modeling.
Researchers envision future supercomputers with heterogeneous architectures, incorporating smaller CPUs, vectors, and FPGAs. Experts in computational science and mathematics will collaborate to develop software that optimizes performance on specific architectures.
Indiana University is one of nine institutions receiving grants totaling $150 million to support the TeraGrid Project, a national cyber-infrastructure for scientific research. Researchers have used the TeraGrid to study genomes, brain function, and disease diagnosis, among other areas.
The University of Chicago will oversee the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system, TeraGrid, which aims to enhance access for scientific and engineering research. The $48 million grant will support the integration of new resources and science gateways to reach a wider user base.
Researchers at the Beckman Institute found that aquaporin channels are narrower for water than glycerol, allowing only water to pass. This discovery could lead to new drug targets for treating diseases related to impaired aquaporin function.
RIT's new gravitySimulator supercomputer can simulate galaxy evolution with unprecedented precision, handling up to 4 million stars at once. The machine, one of only two in the world, achieves a top speed of 4 Teraflops, enabling researchers to study complex astrophysical phenomena.
The RIKEN-BNL QCDOC supercomputer will primarily be used for physics research, focusing on the properties of quark-gluon plasma and quantum chromodynamics. It will also be available for scientific projects in biology and materials science during 10% of its operating time.
A software suite will be developed to simulate and calculate chemical properties, enabling the control of complex chemical processes in Navy's all-electric ships. The partnership combines advances in molecular theories, computer algorithms, and supercomputing capabilities.
Researchers will model the behavior of individual atoms to gain a better understanding of stress corrosion cracking in metals. The goal is to prevent damage and create more corrosion-resistant materials, leading to safer structures and potentially even improved comfort for travelers.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $9.7 million to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to install a Red Storm system from Cray, Inc., capable of approximately 10 teraflops. The system will enable researchers to explore high-performance computing capabilities and demonstrate its potential for various scientific applications.