This months stories

Apollo 13 Astronaut Visits Navy Supercomputer Center

From Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command Public AffairsApollo 13 astronaut and Mississippi native Fred Haise visited the Navy Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) at Stennis Space Center, Miss., Feb. 15, for a tour of the center's three new supercomputers. All of the systems are named after NASA astronauts who have served in the Navy, including Haise who trained as a naval aviator. The two other systems are named for retired Navy Cmdr. Susan Still Kilrain, a naval aviator and space shuttle pilot, and retired Navy Capt. Eugene Cernan, a naval aviator and the last man to step foot on the moon. "Today, we are proud to recognize the contributions of an iconic American and native Mississippian," said Dr.…

6WIND Releases High-Performance Networking Solution on Red Hat

Solution for telecom, enterprise and cloud applications to be featured at Mobile World Congress and RSA Conference6WIND has announced the release of the 6WINDGate software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the world’s leading open source platform for enterprises, providing a high-performance networking software solution for applications such as mobile infrastructure, network appliances and data center networking. The 6WINDGate networking software deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables equipment manufacturers to accelerate the development time for networking equipment that delivers critical CAPEX and OPEX improvements for service providers. 6WIND will be discussing the solution at two upcoming conferences: in booth #7A87 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and in booth #854 at RSA Conference in San Francisco.Software Defined Networking (SDN) transforms…

NSF collaborates with federal partners to plan for comprehensive public access to research results

Transparency of federally funded scientific research will expand the frontiers of knowledge.

Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with federal partners, announced its commitment to expand public access to the results of its funded research. Public access is intended to accelerate the dissemination of fundamental research results that will advance the frontiers of knowledge and help ensure the nation's future prosperity. This announcement follows a memorandum issued from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directing science-funding agencies to develop plans to increase access to the results of federally funded research and improve the management of digital data produced through such research. "Scientific progress depends on the responsible communication of research findings, and NSF has been engaged in efforts to expand public access for several years," said NSF Director…

Future of Non-Volatile Memory Explored at UCSD Workshop

Steven Swanson, a professor of computer science (center) at last year's workshop.

Scientists and engineers from around the world will gather to discuss innovations in non-volatile computer memories that help power today’s electronic mobile devices during a three-day workshop held March 3 to 5 at the University of California, San Diego. The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego is hosting the fourth Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, which will examine how the technology will be used in tomorrow’s mobile electronic devices and how it’s shaping the future of high-performance and cloud supercomputing. “Non-volatile memories are driving innovation in all kinds of computing applications, from video-games, to iPhones, to warehouse-sized data centers, but we have only begun to exploit their potential,” said Steven Swanson, a professor of computer science at the Jacobs…

Accelerating Scientific Knowledge Discovery in DOE Science

iVEC has announced the hosting of an event ‘Accelerating Scientific Knowledge Discovery in DOE Science’, presented by Scott A.Klasky from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The United States Department of Energy (DOE) manages the world’s largest collection of unique scientific user facilities for open science research. Science is often hampered by the time and effort users spend in finding, processing, organizing, moving, and sharing information in their collaborative environment. As DOE science moves forward into the exascale-era, the scientific discovery process will continue to become more difficult, due to the increasing complexities of their collaboration. The primitive state of the computer science tools in this area makes establishing, evolving, and managing information in these complex collaborations very challenging. For today’s scientists…