The University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra is to receive the prestigious ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for 2013 during the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, SC13, in November
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has announced the appointment of Paul Grun as the new vice chair of the organisation
The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), an international forum within the IEEE, has named Argonne's Jeff Hammond a Young Achiever in Scalable Computing for 2013
A leader in computational materials design will bring an industry perspective to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this year
H. Edward Seidel, senior vice president of research and innovation at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow, has been named the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), Germanys Tier-0 supercomputing institution, has appointed Michael Resch as its new chairman of the board of directors
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has welcomed T.P. Straatsma as its new scientific computing group (SCG) leader
D-Wave Systems, a commercial quantum computing company, has announced the formal launch of its US business
The Texas Advanced Computing Center has announced the arrival of Niall Gaffney in the newly created position of director of data intensive computing
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has welcomed the election of two of its Fellows to key roles in the European chemical engineering community
Through the use of cutting-edge simulation, software engineers are developing innovative new wind energy technology and increasing the efficiency and durability of wind turbines. The drive to find sustainable energy sources is one of the most pressing concerns facing society.
Dame Sally Davies, the outgoing Chief Medical Officer for England, pulls no punches when it comes to the threat of antibiotic resistance. She has called for an ‘Extinction Rebellion-type’ response to it, describing it as ‘catastrophic’ and ‘as dangerous as climate change’.
The Pistoia Alliance has been pioneering initiatives that will support organisations as they work to enable and engage Fair (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles of data management and stewardship in their organisations.
Achronix and Bittware collaborate on a new FPGA designed for cloud, AI and machine learning applications, writes Robert Roe
By increasing the energy efficiency of a supercomputer scientists can save huge amounts of money over the total lifecycle of the system. With ever-increasing core counts and increasingly large supercomputers, the drive for increased computational power comes at a cost.
