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and unless I commandeer a supercomputer or a global botnet to do the legwork, I'd be better off mining loose change from the backs of old sofas.
desktops or laptops from people scattered worldwide can band together to mimic the number-crunching power of a supercomputer.
000,000, 000 calculations per second oe 100 times more powerful than today's top supercomputers.
"There are certain problems you can crack with a supercomputer that would be hopeless with volunteer computing,
Supercomputers are suited best for problems where thousands of processors must communicate with each other and swap data frequently during a calculation, according to Grey.
the machinery sowing this new revolution includes supercomputers, molecular biology and arrays of sensors. Here, BBC Future profiles four areas of research to discover how close they are to feeding the coming nine billion.
supercomputers. Long's team broke photosynthesis down into a long series of mathematical equations and fed them to the National Center for Supercomputer Applications in Illinois. The supercomputer whirred through the numbers and spat out a list of"best-bet
 interventions. For example, one potentially easy win they identified was to dial up production of just a single protein known as sedoheptulose bisphosphatase, or SBPASE.
#15 Most Bizarre Brain Experiments If the brain is a supercomputer these would be its hacks.
That strange, mysterious and awesome mass of gray matter is more powerful and creative than any supercomputer.
when Freeman and his colleagues used the UK Science Research Councils supercomputer called HECTOR (High End Computing Terascale Resource),
The laptop marks a sharp contrast to the supercomputers at the disposal of Phil Jones and the other prophets of global warming,
Oil and gas companies were early innovators in supercomputing and data visualization and analysis, which are crucial to todays oil and gas exploration efforts.
Using supercomputer simulations she and her team are working to model tornadoes on a very fine scale tracking their movements to within 165 to 245 feet (50 to 75 meters).
A supercomputer processes the combined data and generates a four-dimensional mathematical model derived from the physics of the atmosphere.
By combining supercomputing and Big data analytics with other technological innovations even farmers with modest means can bolster production and profits.
and powerful supercomputers are helping researchers better understand the biology evolution and dispersion of the diatom.
After generating massive amounts of data using next-generation gene sequencers they used the Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to align organize
By 2009 however supercomputers had discovered the first 3148379694 congruent numbers. Some of these numbers are so enormous that
Fastest computer China now possesses the world's speediest supercomputer. As expected, its Tianhe-1a computer (pictured), housed in the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin,
has eclipsed the US Department of energy's Jaguar system at the Oak ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. In the latest update to the list of the world's top 500 supercomputers (www. top500. org), released on 11 november,
Tianhe-1a was shown to have achieved 2. 57 petaflops (2. 57 ae'1015 floating point operations per second),
with Jaguar managing 1. 75 petaflops. The United states still boasts five of the world's top ten fastest computers.
which two years ago yielded the title of host to the world s top supercomputer  bested first by China
and then by Japan  has roared back into the lead in this month s list of the world s top 500 supercomputers, with the Sequoia machine at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
It also claimed third place with a supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Italy made its top-ten debut with a system at the CINECA computing centre near Bologna.
they can take hours to run on a supercomputer. So when storms pop up or change quickly researchers have to rely on quicker statistical models that can crunch the numbers fast.
Underneath the surface of the mind there must be numerical supercomputing capabilities. Think of how much power is needed say for a Google Car to be able to scan the environment
Me A Kebabyou've probably heard of Watson IBM's super-intelligent supercomputer that dominated on Jeopardy!
and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure (DAVINCI) supercomputer supported by the National Science Foundation and the Shared University Grid at Rice (SUGAR) both administered by Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology.
Supercomputers will be important tools for that. Think of a simple simulation as like looking at the ground from 10000 feet.
and M t o-France's supercomputers as well as being allotted time on The french National Supercomputing Facility GENCI.
However given the current power of supercomputers their resolution remains limited to 200 km which makes it impossible to describe phenomena taking place on the kilometer scale such as torrential autumn rainfall high wind episodes
In this case supercomputing power is used primarily to improve spatial resolution. Notes: 1 The french laboratories concerned are the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL CNRS/CEA/UVSQ) and the Centre National de
They used the power of Rice's Bluebiou supercomputer to track a massive number of electrons.
#Meteor Raspberry Pi cluster used to teach parallel computingresearchers at the San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San diego have built a Linux cluster using 16 Raspberry Pi computers as part of a program to teach children
The system named Meteor to complement Comet-a new supercomputer to be deployed in early 2015 as the result of a recent $12 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)--will be demonstrated at SC13 the annual conference
and SUGAR supercomputers to find results for all the variations. Even so calculations for a single data point--one molecule one zeolite one temperature--often took 96 processing cores three days to complete.
Calculations were performed on the National Science Foundation-supported Davinci supercomputer administered by Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology.
Calculations were performed on the National Science Foundation-supported Davinci supercomputer at Rice the National Institute for Computational Sciences'Kraken and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center's Hopper.
In a paper to be published in May the joint team will announce a record-breaking simulation speed of 504 billion events per second on LLNL's Sequoia Blue Gene/Q supercomputer dwarfing the previous record set in 2009
Constructed by IBM the 120-rack Sequoia supercomputer has a peak performance of 25 petaflops per second
and is the second fastest supercomputer in the world with a total speed and capacity equivalent to about one million desktop PCS.
Prior to the record-setting experiment a preliminary scaling study was conducted at the Rensselaer supercomputing center the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI.
This is an exciting time to be working in high performance computing as we explore the petascale and move aggressively toward exascale computing Carothers said.
The vast amount of data generated through large-scale DNA sequencing required supercomputing resources for analysis. The result is the largest and most comprehensive studies of fish phylogeny to date.
#Record simulations conducted on Lawrence Livermore supercomputerresearchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have performed record simulations using all 1572864 cores of Sequoia the largest supercomputer in the world.
It also is No. 2 on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers operating at 16.3 petaflops (16.3 quadrillion floating point operations per second.
High performance computers such as Sequoia enable these codes to follow the simultaneous evolution of tens of billions to trillions of individual particles in highly complex systems.
The combination of this unique supercomputer and this highly efficient and scalable code is allowing for transformative research.
Even using statistical shortcuts processing these images was still so intense that a supercomputer was required to reduce the time to a practical level.
In their Nature Methods paper the researchers offer other scientists the tools they need to use an easier alternative-the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon Elastic EC2) a service that provides access to supercomputing via the Internet
#Researchers break million-core supercomputer barrierstanford Engineering's Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science by successfully using a supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid
Sequoia once topped list of the world's most powerful supercomputers boasting 1572864 compute cores (processors)
Only recently with the advent of massive supercomputers boasting hundreds of thousands of computing cores have engineers been able to model jet engines
CFD simulations test all aspects of a supercomputer. The waves propagating throughout the simulation require a carefully orchestrated balance between computation memory and communication.
Supercomputers like Sequoia divvy up the complex math into smaller parts so they can be computed simultaneously.
A homecomingthe current simulations were a homecoming of sorts for Nichols. He was inspired to pursue a career in supercomputing as a high-school student
Back then he worked on the Cray Y-MP one of the fastest supercomputers of its time.
They then used a supercomputer to identify and model biomass production that could grow enough feedstock to support a local biorefinery with a capacity of at least 24 million gallons per year.
and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure supercomputer supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and administered by Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology as well as NSF's XSEDE and the Department of energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center supercomputers.
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and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure (DAVINCI) supercomputer supported by the NSF and the Bluebiou supercomputer both administered by Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology.
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The researchers led by assistant professor Adam Liska used a supercomputer model at UNL's Holland Computing Center to estimate the effect of residue removal on 128 million acres across 12 Corn belt states.
so that it could all fit within the working memory of a single supercomputer. The method developed by researchers at the University of Maryland compiles many overlapping fragments of sequence into much larger chunks then throws away all the redundant information.
study showsa forest in South carolina a supercomputer in Ohio and some glow-in-the-dark yarn have helped a team of field ecologists conclude that woodland corridors connecting patches of endangered plants not only increase dispersal of seeds
The massive simulations used the Ohio Supercomputer Center to provide a detailed understanding of how corridors change the movement of the wind
The above story is provided based on materials by Ohio Supercomputer Center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure (DAVINCI supercomputer supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and administered by Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information technology and the NSF-supported Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) supercomputer.
Yakobson is Rice's Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Mechanical engineering and Materials Science a professor of chemistry and a member of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.
The modeling calculations were performed on Yale university's omega supercomputer a 704-node cluster capable of processing more than 52 trillion calculations per second.
The University of Sheffield is teaming with the University of Sussex to use graphics cards, rather than expensive supercomputers,
and IBM supplied the computing power with its Blue Gene supercomputer. Meanwhile the USDA-ARS Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami and researchers from UC Davis, Clemson, Indiana University, the Hudsonalpha Institute for Biotechnology and Washington state University participated.
IBM supercomputer named world's fastest, lands new jobonce again, America can brag about having the world Â's fastest supercomputer.
Two years after being ousted by China Â's Tianhe-1a, IBM Â's Sequoia helped regained the top spot on the TOP500 list of the world s top supercomputers.
Drawing from 1, 572,864 cores, the IBM Bluegene/Q system clocked in at 16.32 petaflops per second, according to the LINPACK benchmark.
Last year Â's supercomputing champion, Fujitsu s Å K Computer Â, finished in second place with a benchmark score of 10.51 Pflop/s. It Â
which registered at 8. 15 petaflop/s. In fact, of the top 10 fastest supercomputers, half of them were built by Big Blue.
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