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#UCSD Study Shows Why Protein Mutations Lead to Familial Form of Parkinson Disease Researchers at the San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San diego, have shown for the first time why protein mutations
Using SDSC data-intensive Gordon supercomputer to find hidden rules of the conformational changes of asyn
Using a supercomputer the team was able to show that the model consistently generated correct results even when changing details such as the number of flux tubes or the energy of the plasma.
and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure (DAVINCI) supercomputer supported by the NSF and administered by Rice s Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology.
which aims to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer. By contrast the US BRAIN Projecthort for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologiesas taken a tool-building approach by challenging scientists to develop new kinds of tools that can read out the activity of thousands
The authors used a model of the Earth s core that was run on the giant supercomputer Monte Rosa part of The swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano Switzerland.
and huge supercomputers shows how complicated the dynamo process really is#says Professor Fausto Cattaneo of the University of Chicago#s department of astronomy and astrophysics.
but IBM experts believe that supercomputers with increased computational and memory capacity that can process this data will be available within three years.
The article went on to note that the powerful modeling capabilities of supercomputers and the principles of quantum mechanics are together allowing scientists to build virtual materials atom by atom.
For example, it can take a supercomputer several weeks to simulate a 10-femtosecond process. One reason for the high cost is that real-time simulations of ultrafast phenomena require small time steps to describe the movement of an electron
Being able to run the code on a supercomputer like Hopper for long periods of time was central to the success of this study, according to Wang.
The new supercomputers are critical, and so are the fast processors, he said. his code does not necessarily scale to many processors.
A supercomputer processes the combined data and generates a four-dimensional mathematical model derived from the physics of the atmosphere.
#World's fastest supercomputers could take science to the next level With computing technology continually getting smaller,
you may look at modern day room-sized supercomputers and balk. But if you're impressed with all the things your tablet can do,
The announcement that the U s. Department of energy is planning to spend $425 million to build two supercomputers that are 5 to 7 times faster than any supercomputer in history is big news
$325 million of it, will be designated for the construction a supercomputer to be named"Summit,"for Oak ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,
which is the unit of measurement for supercomputer performance. Basically that means that the machines can perform as many as 150 million billion floating-point operations (or FLOP) per second.
By comparison, the world's highest performing computer at present, the Tianhe-2 in China, performs at"just"55 petaflops. The first-ever supercomputer to reach 1 petaflop was built as recently as 2008.
Japan s flagship K#supercomputer project narrowly escaped being shut down after auditors questioned whether Japan needed to host the world s fastest computer.
he told reporters after a tour of the supercomputer facility on 11 january. Science is a big winner in the government s massive#10.3-trillion economic stimulus package, approved by the cabinet on 15 january.
and significant boosts for many big scientific facilities (see Big winners)# including#8. 4#billion for data links between the K supercomputer and Japan s universities.
#Baby model cosmos grows up to look like the real thing A supercomputer simulation has tracked the evolution of the universe from a mere 12 million years after the big bang until the present day.
and supermassive black holes pulling in material that gets too Close to run the simulation the team used several supercomputers in Europe and the US each
that uses precalculated supercomputer data for structural components like simulated egosto solve FEA models in seconds.
that used that technique to create a mobile app that displayed supercomputer simulations, in seconds, on a smartphone.
A supercomputer first presolved problems such as fluid flow around a spherical obstacle in a pipe that had known a form
A supercomputer precalculates individual components, such as, say, a simple tube or a complex mechanical part. nd this creates a big data footprint for each one of these components,
David Prendergast a staff scientist in the Molecular Foundry and researcher in the Joint Center for Energy storage Research (JCESR) has developed computational techniques that allow his team to accomplish this translation Using supercomputer facilities at Berkeley Lab
Using powerful supercomputers researchers at UWA discovered that graphene nanoflakes can significantly enhance the rates of a range of chemical reactions.
#Supercomputers reveal strange stress-induced transformations in world's thinnest materials (Phys. org) Interested in an ultra-fast unbreakable and flexible smart phone that recharges in a matter of seconds?
A Columbia University team used supercomputers at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to simulate
"SMU's Maneframe supercomputer plays a key role in helping physicists from the Large hadron collider experiments.
One of the fastest academic supercomputers in the nation, it allows physicists at SMU and around the world to sift through the flood of data,
The researchers used the NSF-supported DAVINCI supercomputer administered by Rice Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology n
which uses microfluidic channels tiny microchannels etched into a metal block to cool the Supermuc supercomputer.
and IBM's Watson supercomputer is no exception. The newly released Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson includes 65 recipes, developed with the help of
The Reading-led team used supercomputer simulations to look at many different candidates as potential photocatalysts for fuel production reactions.
Image courtesy of The Molecular Foundry) Used in everything from cell phones to supercomputers, modern microelectronic circuits contain billions of nanometer scale transistors,
which harness the science of the very small the strange behaviour of subatomic particles to solve computing challenges that are beyond the reach of even today fastest supercomputers.
which will help to create future supercomputers Superconductivity, which is almost incompatible with magneticfield, under certain conditions is able to promote magnetization.
They suggest that techniques based on this effect are able to move us closer to future supercomputers:
that this technology will allow to create much more economical and stable computing machines and supercomputers,
According to Natalya Pugach, superconductive spintronics technologies may help to build supercomputers and powerful servers, whose energy consumption and heat emission create much more problems than in case of ordinary desktop computers."
but when you use these semiconductors to build supercomputers, they produce heat and noise, demand powerful cooling systems.
energy efficiency and size of future data centers, supercomputers and cloud systems. Photonic devices, which use photons instead of electrons to transport
which harness the science of the very small-the strange behaviour of subatomic particles-to solve computing challenges that are beyond the reach of even today's fastest supercomputers.
and perform otherwise intractable mathematics calculations that aren't possible for supercomputers. Developed by a team from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. NTT) in Japan, the fully reprogrammable chip brings together a multitude of existing quantum experiments
Researchers virtually screened 15 million drug-like compounds via SMU supercomputer The SMU researchers discovered the three hit compounds after virtually screening more than 15 million small drug-like compounds made publically available
Researchers virtually screened 15 million drug-like compounds via SMU supercomputer The SMU researchers discovered the three hit compounds after virtually screening more than 15 million small drug-like compounds made publically available
which harness the science of the very small--the strange behaviour of subatomic particles--to solve computing challenges that are beyond the reach of even today's fastest supercomputers.
as well as the San diego Supercomputer Center and Department of Neurosciences at UC San diego.""But we addressed this challenge
Canada and high-performance workstations at the San diego Supercomputer Center to run the search. With this approach, the researchers identified a few molecules that would likely fit the OLIG2 interaction.
Simulations on the Stampede supercomputer of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) bridged the gap between the drawing board
000 cores of the Stampede supercomputer. Grabe was cautious about the potential application of this research,
Using the supercomputers at Berkeley Lab National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the researchers can screen hundreds of molecules per day.
A supercomputer for the ong tailof science The San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San diego this week formally launched omet,
a new petascale supercomputer designed to transform scientific research by expanding computational access among a larger number of researchers
Comet joins SDSC Gordon supercomputer as another key resource within the NSF XSEDE (extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) computer resource-sharing system
as one of NSF original supercomputer centers, Kurose said. t has been a leader of the data science revolution as well.
and biophysicsut among domains which are relatively new to supercomputers, such as genomics, finance and the social sciences.
Supercomputers can greatly accelerate timescales for researching the origins of the universe. Neurosciences, Brain Research:
Supercomputers can create highly detailed simulations to track ocean currents or improve industry methods related to the discharge of pollutants
Supercomputer-generated simulations are used to inform decision-making strategies. The Tree of Life: Biologists construct phylogenetic trees to capture the evolutionary relationship between species,
The researchers extensively used the Blue waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications housed at the University of Illinois. They mapped each individual atom in the complex DNA molecule
These regenerators are effectively supercomputers and must be applied to each channel in the transmission. The electronic regeneration in modern lightwave transmission that carries between 80 to 200 channels also dictates the cost and,
#Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? Currently, the world most powerful supercomputers can ramp up to more than a thousand trillion operations per second,
or a petaflop. But computing power is not growing as fast as it has in the past.
On Monday, the June 2015 listing of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world revealed the beginnings of a plateau in performance growth.
Supercomputer power is expected, for the most part to follow the same curve. In the past, that was exactly the case.
The cost of the electricity to power these behemoths has played also a role in slowing the speed of supercomputer development. an somebody make a computer that has higher performance?
Other laboratories could reach the performance of the number one supercomputer, Tianhe-2 if they want to pay US $390 million for the same technology,
Dongarra predicts that the China Tianhe-2 will remain at the top of the supercomputer pyramid for at least two more lists because of the lack of funding for new systems.
Though computer scientists in the United states say 2023 is a more feasible timeline to construct an exascale supercomputer
(and the U s. government is planning out an exascale supercomputer that would cost $200 million),
such as weather projection. he National Weather Service uses supercomputers to run physical models to predict what will happen in three to five days,
Even with a supercomputer the puzzle often can't be solved there can be repeated too many sequences
and they hope to build a supercomputer using thousands. When data is fed into a Synapse chip it causes a stream of spikes,
Last year for example the company enhanced its Watson supercomputer famous for its appearance on the quiz show Jeopardy in an attempt to speed up the pace of scientific breakthroughs.
the new cognitive cooking app that brings the knowledge of the world-famous"Jeopardy"-beating supercomputer to the average household kitchen.
The organizers employed Infiniband sub-nets with different net topologies to create a single topologically optimized computational resource, a so-called Galaxy of Supercomputers.
just got clearance to begin acquisition of a supercomputer in the 1-3 petaflops range.
The Office of Science lays out the upgrade paths for NERSC, OLCF and ALCF with supercomputers Cori, Summit,
The team used large-scale atomistic computations on the Mira supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to prove that the effect could be seen not merely at the nanoscale
Last year, a supercomputer became the first AI to pass the Turing Test, successfully (and worryingly for cybercrime) convincing humans it was a 13-year-old boy
Silicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
The first supercomputers using silicon photonics already under development at companies such as Intel and IBM will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic.
Silicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
The first supercomputers using silicon photonics--already under development at companies such as Intel and IBM--will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic.
The team used large-scale atomistic computations on the Mira supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to prove that the effect could be seen not merely at the nanoscale but also at the macroscale."
The National Science Foundation, the U s army Corps of Engineers, an Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Allocation and the Blue waters petascale supercomputer system at University of Illinois supported parts of this research h
Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon and colleagues describe their invention today in the journal Nature Photonics Silicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers
The first supercomputers using silicon photonics--already under development at companies such as Intel and IBM--will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic.
and decipher the innumerable quantum interactions that will occur on ridiculously small time scales will require the calculating power of ALCFS IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer,
"The first supercomputers using silicon photonics-already under development at companies such as Intel and IBM-will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic,
This reduces the need for trial and error experimentation in the lab. Using a supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory we are able to use our computer simulations to compress decades of research in the lab into a total of about a day's worth of computing said lead researcher Ilja
The team's software can utilize Mira a supercomputer with nearly 800000 processors to run in a day the equivalent computations requiring about 10 million hours on a single-processor computer.
#Supercomputers surprisingly link DNA crosses to cancer Supercomputers have helped scientists find a surprising link between cross-shaped (or cruciform) pieces of DNA and human cancer, according to a study at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin.
High performance computing at UT Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) with the Stampede and Lonestar supercomputers helped the researchers find short inverted repeats of 30 base pairs
We used the TACC supercomputers for that aspect of the work.''''We have used both the Stampede and the Lonestar Linux clusters.
Using Mira, the ALCF's 10-petaflops IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, the researchers replicated the experimental conditions with large-scale molecular dynamics simulations aimed at understanding the underlying mechanisms of superlubricity at an atomistic level.
"Arraythe team's groundbreaking nanoscroll discovery would not have been possible without a supercomputer like Mira.
"And with the recent announcement of Aurora, the ALCF's next-generation supercomputer, Sankaranarayanan is excited about where this line of research could go in the future."
Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineeringsilicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
The first supercomputers using silicon photonics already under development at companies such as Intel and IBM will use hybrid processors that remain partly electronic.
These regenerators are effectively supercomputers and must be applied to each channel in the transmission. The electronic regeneration in modern lightwave transmission that carries between 80 to 200 channels also dictates the cost and,
#Obama wants to build an exascale supercomputer by 2025 The White house is getting serious about supercomputers.
Today, President Obama issued an executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Intiative essentially a federal strategy for making sure America leads the field in supercomputers.
but supercomputer experts had predicted already the US could break the so-called exaflop barrier as early as 2023.
The most powerful supercomputers currently in development in the US are the twin Summit and Sierra supercomputers, built by IBM for the Department of energy
and expected to handle 100 petaflops each when completed in 2017. But breaking the exaflop barrier is complicated more than simply strapping ten Summits together.
They also added that it is equivalent to the fastest supercomputer in the world in 2000.
For the Internet this means an infrastructure of supercomputers strategically located at network nodes regenerating
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