The US Department of Energy (DOE) has recently announced $7 million in funding for nine studies aimed at improving DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)
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PACER project to accelerate Australian HPC research
27 July 2020
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre for Extreme scale Readiness (PACER) programme to help computational researchers and prepare them for the next era of supercomputing
HPC researchers rank 'availability of resources' as their primary challenge
23 July 2020
Initial results of the Scientific Computing World (SCW) survey for HPC researchers have shown that availability of time on HPC systems, support for your application and influencing the choice of software run on HPC systems are major challenges for scientists and researchers that use HPC facilities to run their simulations
Ellison Institute creates tissue ‘fingerprints’ for cancer diagnostics
22 July 2020
The Lawrence J Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC (Ellison Institute) has revealed a promising two-step technique to train a predictive algorithm for cancer diagnostics
Google Cloud announces Confidential VMs powered by AMD hardware
15 July 2020
Google Cloud has announced a beta test of Confidential VMs that can help to encrypt user data while it is being processed
ACM SIGHPC announces dissertation award winner
14 July 2020
ACM's Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has announced that Dr Patrick Flick has won the 2020 SIGHPC Doctoral Dissertation Award
New supercomputer at the University of Aberdeen supports genomics research
13 July 2020
Researchers at the University of Aberdeen will now benefit from a new supercomputer named 'Maxwell' which is supporting ground research at the University’s Centre for Genome-Enabled Biology and Medicine
Collaboration supports student's use of bioinformatics tools
08 July 2020
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) and Optibrium celebrate five years of collaboration to support education
Atos Life Sciences Centre of Excellence supports worldwide research
08 July 2020
Atos and the Wellcome Genome Campus, in Cambridgeshire, UK, have announced a partnership to provide a global HPC, AI & Quantum Life Sciences Centre of Excellence to give researchers access to emerging HPC, AI & Quantum technologies
Seeking investment is the number one challenge for HPC resource managers
06 July 2020
Initial results of the Scientific Computing World (SCW) survey for HPC resource managers have shown that seeking investment and training and support are major concerns for those that operate HPC facilities
Tohoku University and NEC collaboration accelerates the development of composite materials for aircraft
03 July 2020
Tohoku University Graduate School of Engineering, Graduate School of Information Sciences, and NEC Corporation have announced a collaboration aimed at developing composite materials for aircraft
UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation increases storage capacity to meet demand for COVID research
02 July 2020
Researchers at the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI), have expanded their Panasas high-performance computing (HPC) storage infrastructure with an additional two petabytes (PB) of ActiveStor data storage to support the growing number of I/O-intensive tasks related to COVID-19 research
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