HPC INNOVATOR SERIES
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Exciting Times in Africa
Happy Sithole is pioneering all aspects of research and technology frontiers on behalf of South Africa and across the continent. Happy has been integral to numerous African "firsts," beginning with the inauguration of South Africa's Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in 2007, which featured the first Top 500 system listing for Africa — now playing host to numerous academic and industry research projects to bridge the nation's technology divide and greatly extend its global reach... more
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The Art of Science – Visualize the Possibilities
Kelly Gaither is a major driving force in HPC visualization, development of large "superdisplays" comprised of large, tiled vizwalls in dealing with large data and parallel systems. As Director of Visualization at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), she currently hosts one of the world's largest scientific visualization "SciVis" systems, and is helping to mature many programs and techniques now broadly recognized as another critical pillar in scientific method and
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Of SuperHEROES and Superpowers in Supercomputing
Dr. Kimihiko Hirao and his team helped debut the newest leader on the Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputer – the "K-Computer" at the Advanced Institute of Computation Sciences (AICS) at RIKEN Center in Kobe, Japan. The "K-Computer" was a stunning victory for all of Japan and testament to a nation's character in the face of rolling outages and interruption to supply chains, coupled with the infrastructure and human impacts that effected the entire country throughout the system build and test period, to make the June announcement
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Leading ESnet to the Next Level of Innovation: Steve Cotter
As science becomes more data-intensive, whether due to massive amounts of data collected by experimental facilities or increasingly detailed simulations on surpercomputers, that same research is in turn increasingly reliant on networking. For most of its 25 years, the Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network, better known as ESnet, has been a critical but relatively quiet component in supporting DOE's research missions
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Latin America's HPC Growth Agent: Rene´ Luna Garcia
Central Mexico has been a hub of culture and commerce for as long as humans have gathered there. Today, Mexico City is the growth center of high performance computing in Mexico and greater Latin America. Back at the Modeling and Simulation laboratory of the CIC-IPN, René continues his research in the computational domain, using numerical models to determine the origins of cosmic rays from the locations of particles that have been detected by the HAWC array
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Tom Murphy: Finding Innovative Ways to Help Students Survive and Succeed
Tom Murphy isn't one of those teachers who thinks the best way to get students to learn is to pack their heads full of ideas and concepts. Instead, he'd rather have his students figure out the best ways to pack powerful computing systems into briefcases, suitcases and shipping boxes. Several years ago, Murphy had his students working to cram as many processors, mother boards and other components as possible into an attaché case in a quest to build the world's most powerful laptop
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