SuperComputing

CERN OPENLAB

Wed, 09 May 2012 12:26:07 GMT

New phase for Openlab 00 :00 -00 :11 : titres 00 :12 -00 : 38 : logo Openlab + footage CERN computing centre 00 :39- 01 :38 : interview of Bob Jones Head of CERN openlab 01 :39 – 01 :55 : footage computing centre 01 :56- 03 :09 : interview of Sverre Jarp , CERN openlab Chief Technology Officer 03 :10-04 :02 : footage technical rack computing centre 04 :03- 04 :56 : second interview of Sverre Jarp about éducation 04 :57- 05 :58 : interview of Andrzej Nowak staff researcher of CERN openlab 05 :59- END : others footage of supercomputing center.

Professor Anant Agarwal on MITx

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:01:54 GMT

A decade ago, MIT broke ground with its OpenCourseWare initiative, which made MIT course materials, such as syllabi and lecture notes, publicly accessible. But over the last five years, MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif has led an effort to move the complete MIT classroom experience online, with video lectures, homework assignments, lab work — and a grade at the end. That project, called MITx, launched late last year. On March 16, Reif announced that MIT Professor Anant Agarwal would step down as director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in order to lead MIT's Open Learning Enterprise, which will oversee MITx's development. Learn more about Agarwal and MITx at: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mitx-anant-agarwal-profile-0420.html From MIT News - MIT launches online learning initiative: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html What is MITx?: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-faq-1219.html

JILA: X-wing and the future

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:19:27 GMT

See inside JILA's new lab facilities, and hear what its Nobel Prize winning scientists envision for future discoveries.

iDreamAgent - Real Estate iPhone App

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:02:32 GMT

iDreamAGENT is an indispensable complement to any existing real estate iPhone app. Other apps provide you with a huge amount of real estate information. iDreamAgent helps you make sense of it all. iDreamAgent is the only real estate iPhone app that personalizes your home buying experience. Take your own pictures. Make your own notes. Share your thoughts with friends and with your real estate agent. iDreamAGENT is a data collection app that streamlines the real estate shopping experience. It allows users to make sense of the overwhelming amount of data that factors into the very important decision of buying a home. If there's any decision you want to make well, it's the home you buy! Grab iDreamAgent in the app store here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/idreamagent/id515127454?mt=8 Featuring: • The ability to create records with Name/Address • Add current selling price and description • Rate the overall home • Take pictures of prospective homes • Add notes to each picture • Add room tags to pictures • Save home records for comparison • Web Portal that allows you to view your homes online • Share with family and friends • Share with your agent to further refine your real estate searches It's in the app store now :-) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/idreamagent/id515127454?mt=8

Shifting sands

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:51:16 GMT

MIT News - April 6, 2012 Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model. From far away, flowing sand resembles a liquid, streaming down the center of an hourglass like water from a faucet. But up close, one can make out individual grains that slide against each other, forming a mound at the base that holds its shape, much like a solid. Sand's curious behavior — part fluid, part solid — has made it difficult for researchers to predict how it and other granular materials flow under various conditions. A precise model for granular flow would be particularly useful in optimizing processes such as pharmaceutical manufacturing and grain production, where tiny pills and grains pour through industrial chutes and silos in mass quantities. When they aren't well-controlled, such large-scale flows can cause blockages that are costly and sometimes dangerous to clear. Now Ken Kamrin of MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering has come up with a model that predicts the flow of granular materials under a variety of conditions. The model improves on existing models by taking into account one important factor: how the size of a grain affects the entire flow. Kamrin and Georg Koval, assistant professor of civil engineering at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Strasbourg, France, used the new model to predict sand flow in several configurations — including a chute and a circular trough — and found that the model's predictions were a near-perfect match with actual results. A paper detailing the new model will appear in the journal Physical Review Letters. Read more at MIT News.

Smart sand & robot pebbles

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:29:56 GMT

MIT News - April 2, 2012 Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model. That may sound like a scene from a Harry Potter novel, but it's the vision animating a research project at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. At the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in May — the world's premier robotics conference — DRL researchers will present a paper describing algorithms that could enable such "smart sand." They also describe experiments in which they tested the algorithms on somewhat larger particles — cubes about 10 millimeters to an edge, with rudimentary microprocessors inside and very unusual magnets on four of their sides. Unlike many other approaches to reconfigurable robots, smart sand uses a subtractive method, akin to stone carving, rather than an additive method, akin to snapping LEGO blocks together. A heap of smart sand would be analogous to the rough block of stone that a sculptor begins with. The individual grains would pass messages back and forth and selectively attach to each other to form a three-dimensional object; the grains not necessary to build that object would simply fall away. When the object had served its purpose, it would be returned to the heap. Its constituent grains would detach from each other, becoming free to participate in the formation of a new shape. Read more at MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/smart-robotic-sand-0402.html Still photos courtesy of M. Scott Brauer Animation courtesy of Kyle Gilpin

Durham University Supercomputer

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:40:00 GMT

An exciting look behind the scenes at Durham University's data centre. Dr Lydia Heck and Professor Carlos Frenk discuss the use of the technology to discover the origins of our universe.

From Big Bang to Big Data: ASTRON and IBM Collaborate to Explore Origins of the Universe

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:25:01 GMT

ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and IBM today announced an initial 32.9 million EURO, five-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer systems targeted for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA is an international consortium to build the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope. Scientists estimate that the processing power required to operate the telescope will be equal to several millions of today's fastest computers. ASTRON is one of the leading scientific partners in the international consortium that is developing the SKA. Upon completion in 2024, the telescope will be used to explore evolving galaxies, dark matter and even the very origins of the universe—dating back more than 13 billion years.

Impact of Computational Science and OSC to Total Sim

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:22:55 GMT

Total Sim's Ray Leto discusses OSC's impact on Industry from Ohio Supercomputer Center on Vimeo.

Inside the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:52:56 GMT

The University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) provides high-performing computer resources and consultation to researchers and external clients in diverse fields. Jorge Vinals, director of MSI, talks about the present and future of supercomputing.

NASA Sees Second Biggest Solar Flare

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:09:32 GMT

This movie of the March 6, 2012, X5.4 flare was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 171 Angstrom wavelength. One of the most dramatic features is the way the entire surface of the sun seems to ripple with the force of the eruption. This movement comes from something called EIT waves -- because they were first discovered with the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) on the Solar Heliospheric Observatory. Since SDO captures images every 12 seconds, it has been able to map the full evolution of these waves and confirm that they can travel across the full breadth of the sun. The waves move at over a million miles per hour, zipping from one side of the sun to the other in about an hour. The movie shows two distinct waves. The first seems to spread in all directions; the second is narrower, moving toward the southeast. Such waves are associated with, and perhaps trigger, fast coronal mass ejections, so it is likely that each one is connected to one of the two CMEs that erupted on March 6.Credit: Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA

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Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:15:57 GMT

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Unlocking the Mysteries of Autism

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:10:40 GMT

Autism has long been a scientific enigma, mainly due to its diverse and seemingly unrelated symptoms -- from social and communication disorders to restricted interests -- and their lack of correspondence to a particular biological ailment. However, new research from Carnegie Mellon University's Marcel Just provides an explanation for some of autism's puzzles and gives scientists clear targets for developing intervention and treatment therapies. Published in the journal "Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews," Just and his team used brain imaging and computer modeling to show how the brain's white matter tracts -- the cabling that connects separated brain areas -- are altered in autism and how these alterations can affect brain function and behavior. The deficiencies affect the tracts' bandwidth -- the speed and rate at which information can travel along the pathways. For more information, visit http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu/.

Mysterious electron acceleration explained

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:48:17 GMT

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Intelligence

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:27:09 GMT

Jack Danahy, Director of Advanced Security at IBM talks about security intelligence. For more information, please visit ibm.com/security.

Formation of {101} phase boundaries in a LiFePO4 nanoparticle

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:19:53 GMT

When a LiFePO4 nanoparticle is held at 50% state of charge, coherency strain leads to the formation of {101} phase boundaries. Phase-field simulation of a 500x500nm particle.

Driving Service Creation with Cloud-Optimized Application Delivery

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:33:37 GMT

Prominent industry analyst, Zeus Kerravala, principal at ZK Research, discusses the dynamic application delivery space as it relates to cloud service creation. Joining this conversation with Mr. Kerravala is Brocade director of product marketing, Keith Stewart. Together they talk about the challenges and trends in the cloud space as well as discuss the ways organizations can advance their application delivery capabilities and create new revenue generating services.

MIT's Jeffrey Grossman - Solving energy problems, one molecule at a time

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:55:50 GMT

Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Jeffrey Grossman is profiled.

Video: Melanie Gonick

3-D Image of an Individual Protein

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:57:15 GMT

A supercomputer animation demonstrates the flexible dynamics — the moving parts — of human IgG antibody. 3-D images of two individual antibody particles (gray) were generated using EM tomography with IPET. The demonstration shows how the same molecular chains (red, orange, and green noodle-like models) of antibody particle #1 can fit precisely into particle #2, which was found under the microscope in an entirely different pose.

EPFL researchers develop a process to make reliable 3D chips

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:23:54 GMT

Stacked vertically instead of placed side by side, reliable 3D chips were created in EPFL's Microelectronics Systems Laboratory (LSM - http://lsi.epfl.ch). This lab has also developed a high performance manufacturing method. Thanks to this technology, computers will be faster, more efficient and capable of carrying out more tasks simultaneously

The Optical Reboot Becomes a Reality

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:54:59 GMT

Join us at MPLS Ethernet World Congress 2012 as we reveal how service providers are rebuilding their optical networks on flexible agile cores to drive new levels of automation and profitability. Follow this link for full details:http://adva.li/events

DNSViz Tool

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:06:43 GMT

The Sandia-developed visualization tool known as DNSViz helps network administrators within the federal government and global IT community better understand Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) and troubleshoot problems. SAND 2012-0027W

Speckles for Safety: NIST Helps Measure Stress in Bridges

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:21:52 GMT

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) are using random patterns of speckles painted on metal connectors for bridges to better understand how stress and strain could lead to their failure, and possibly, a tragic collapse such as the one in Minneapolis, Minn., in August 2007.

Patrick Gallagher, Director NIST, Discusses How to Out Produce: Revitalizing Manufacturing

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:07:55 GMT

Patrick Gallagher, Director of NIST, Discusses How to Out Produce: Revitalizing Manufacturing Manufacturing plays a special role in our economy. As Chapter 6 points out, the manufacturing sector is a significant part of our overall GDP, but it also is instrumental in creating high quality, high pay jobs in our economy and in supporting our national infrastructure and national defense. But one point about manufacturing is often not well understood and that's that the manufacturing sector itself plays a critical role in our nation's capacity to innovate. Almost two-thirds of our research and development capacity in the business sector is based in manufacturing-based industries. Manufacturing also plays a critical role in trade. Most of our tradable economy is based in the manufacturing sector.

CERN Selects Brocade to Bolster Network Performance and Support its Growth Plans

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:10:05 GMT

David Foster of CERN tells us why it selected Brocade MLXe Core Routers as part of a network infrastructure upgrade to support its high throughput computing (HTC) requirements and a data environment that exceeds 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) per year

Importance of 100 GbE: Live Demo over a WAN

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:08:21 GMT

At Supercomputing 2011 in Seattle Brocade continued a long-standing and successful tradition of engaging with the international community in high performance computing, networking and storage. Brocade's participation at this show promotes education through innovations created here and now in high performance computing. Brocade collaborated with research network innovators from Indiana University and Internet2 to demonstrate 100 Gigabit Ethernet transport over a wide area network spanning from Indianapolis to Chicago to Seattle. This marks one of the first live demonstrations of this magnitude and opens up the world to a wealth of life changing innovation. At the heart of this advanced network is the Brocade MLXe router, it's designed to establish the industry benchmarks for performance, scalability and investment protection for performance driven organizations. When installed in the Brocade MLXe routers, the new 100 GbE blades enable high performance computing networks to deploy the industry's first Terabit-per-second trunk, which utilizes multiple ports in a single logical link for greater bandwidth and reduced management. To put this in perspective, this technology can support the streaming of a half-million high-definition video streams over a single managed connection -- serving the equivalent of all San Jose, Calif. households -- and delivers more than twice the operational efficiency of competitive offerings.

SuperComputer Models Help Predict Tsunami Risk

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:45:53 GMT

Stanford scientists are using complex computational models to solve the puzzle of the devastating tsunami that stuck Japan earlier this year and predict where future tsunamis might occur.

Atoms Dressed with Light Show New Interactions, Could Reveal Way to Observe Enigmatic Particle

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:06:51 GMT

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nanoHUB U: Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:17:12 GMT

Nanoelectronic devices are an integral part of our life, including the billion-plus transistors in every laptop. We have condensed the essence of a 30-week (2 semesters) course into two 5-week classes that convey the experience of a university course that can be taken anywhere in the world. Visit https://nanohub.org/u for more info. Don't forget to register before the first course starts on January 23, 2012.

Mellanox annual event at SC11 in Seattle, WA - Jay Boisseau (TACC) - Part 1

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:11:51 GMT

Mellanox annual event "Expanding HPC Frontiers" at SC11 in Seattle, WA on Wednesday, November 16 at the Sheraton Hotel. Jay Boisseau, Ph.D Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) www.mellanox.com/sc11

How to set up a cluster in Amazon EC2 using Rocks+

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:34:09 GMT

In this screencast, Tim explains how to create a virtual cluster in EC2 using Rocks+

a University-developed Internet2 OS3E provisioning portal- YouTube

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:11:12 GMT

demo of a real-time provisioning portal for Internet2's new network platform

Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:48:13 GMT

Proteins control nearly all of life's functions, but how they self-assemble, or fold, is an unsolved problem in biology. Understanding how folding goes awry could lead to cures for diseases caused by protein misfolding, like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Stanford chemistry Professor Vijay Pande's project Folding@home borrows computing time from home computers to simulate how proteins fold. By modeling protein folding, Pande says, "We hope to get exquisite detail and information that you might not be able to get from experiments."

SmarterCities Rio | IBM helps Rio become a Smarter City

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:21:28 GMT

SmarterCities Rio | IBM helps Rio become a Smarter City

Georgia Aquarium AT&T Dolphin Tales Operations Research Georgia Tech

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:01:27 GMT

Systems engineers at Georgia Tech offered Georgia Aquarium leaders accurate predictions on how the new AT&T Dolphin Tales exhibit would impact guest flow within the aquarium and how to optimize the operations logistics, efficiency and show schedules for the new exhibit.

Network Encryption: What You Need to Know

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:40:51 GMT

Christian Illmer and Stephan Rettenberger discuss network encryption and provide a step-by-step guide as to how you can protect your mission-critical data

Youngest Millisecond Pulsar

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:17:00 GMT

In three years, NASA's Fermi has detected more than 100 gamma-ray pulsars, but something new has appeared. Among a type of pulsar with ages typically numbering a billion years or more, Fermi has found one that appears to have been born only millions of years ago.

Supercomputing Research- YouTube

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:05:40 GMT

Larry Smarr, founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, provides a brief background into the history of supercomputing researc...

Nanotube Springs Stretch Skin-Like Sensor

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:12:49 GMT

Using carbon nanotubes bent to act as springs, Stanford researchers have developed a stretchable, transparent skin-like sensor. The sensor can be stretched to more than twice its original length and bounce back perfectly to its original shape. It can sense pressure from a firm pinch to thousands of pounds. The sensor could have applications in prosthetic limbs, robotics and touch-sensitive computer displays.

WSA-Enlil model run

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:27:08 GMT

Oct. 19, 2011: Space weather prediction model improves NOAA's forecast skill This animation shows a forecast from WSA-Enlil, an advanced forecast model used in NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. The sun is yellow at left; Earth is green at right. Banana-shaped regions of contrasting colors show three successive coronal mass ejections -- bursts of particles and magnetic field from the sun -- that headed toward Earth in early August 2011. Coronal mass ejections can trigger geomagnetic storms on Earth, which can impede operation of electrical grids and temporarily hamper radio and satellite telecommunications. Grid and satellite operators and airlines can take protective measures when stormy conditions are forecast. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center is the nation's official source of operational forecasts, warnings and alerts about space weather. Credit: NOAA.

NIST/CU Magnetic Microfluidic Chip

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:14:40 GMT

Video of a novel, low-power chip that uses microfluidics and magnetic switches to trap and transport magnetic beads. Developed by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder. The microchip may have applications in biotechnology and medical diagnostics.

VT IDEA group examines cybersecurity research

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:02:46 GMT

Alumni group with ties to military and intelligence assesses high-tech research at Virginia Tech.

The FIE Story - 1991 to 2009

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:19:02 GMT

This video shows the evolution of the Frontiers of Education from years 1991 to 2009. Using a large amount of data and a knowledge network perspective, the data is synthesized as a network flow over the years. Other salient information is also included. This project is powered by Interactive Knowledge Networks for Engineering Education Research (iKNEER), a project supported by NSF grants EEC-0957015, EEC-0935109, EEC-0935124. We also thank our colleagues Drs. Ruth Streveler, Matthew Ohland, Karl Smith, Demetra Evangelou, and David Radcliffe for their useful and timely feedback when working on this project.

Low-cost electronic tablet proves worth in Indian classroom

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:49:43 GMT

The U.S. and Singapore-based creators of the low-cost I-slate tablet computer are preparing for full-scale production following a yearlong series of tests that show the device is an effective tool for Indian children. Jointly developed by researchers at Rice University in Houston and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the I-slate is designed for classrooms that lack electricity. When mass produced, the I-slate is expected to cost less than $50.

Virtual Realities

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:23:11 GMT

Community foundations are asked to tackle complex multi-sector social issues on a daily basis. What can we learn about how to think and solve these issues in a more creative way and how to harness not-your-typical-resources to solve them? Think outside the box with the leadership of Singularity University, an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate, and inspire leaders to better understand how exponentially advancing technologies (such as biotechnology, supercomputing, nanotechnology, robotics, and communications technologies) can address humanity's grand challenges.

Presenters: Salim Ismail, executive director, Singularity University, Jeff Clarke, interim president and CEO, Council on Foundations, and Tully M. Friedman, chairman and CEO, Friedman Fleischer & Lowe

The 100G Broadband Buzz

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:14:45 GMT

Stephan Rettenberger and Gareth Spence discuss the impact of 100G technology on the metro community and explore the key customer drivers at Broadband World Forum 2011

EVITA presentation by Alicia Veiga (CESGA, Spain)

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:48:33 GMT

Alicia Veiga (Galicia Supercomputing Centre / Galician e-Commerce Leveraging Centre, Spain) presents EVITA project (in Galician)

Use of Taverna on NGS

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:38:53 GMT

Use of Taverna on NGS

Autodesk Cloud Enables Access to Design Capability from Anywhere, at Anytime

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:11:26 GMT

Available on the iOS App Store, the Autodesk Design Review mobile app provides users with the freedom to work where they can be most effective, and to view, edit and share designs anywhere and with almost anyone.

A Story of Optimization - Trailer

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:17:39 GMT

For over 25 years Altair has brought knowledge, expertise, technology and innovative solutions to the CAE community. Watch this brief introduction to learn about "A Story of Optimization".