A new wearable vapor sensor being developed at the University of Michigan could one day offer continuous disease monitoring for patients with diabetes, high blood pressure, anemia or lung disease. The sensor can detect airborne chemicals either exhaled or released through the skin. The University of Michigan researchers are working with the National Science Foundation's … [Read more...]
Robots that See Through Solid Walls Using Wi-Fi
For the past few years Yasamin Mostofi, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSB and her team have been busy realizing the dream of X-ray vision.by enabling robots to see objects and humans behind thick walls through the use of radio frequency signals. The project page is here. Dr Mostofi received the Presidential Early Career Award in … [Read more...]
DARPA Blue Wolf – program to build fast submarines
DARPA Blue Wolf - program to build fast submarines. Most likely pathway is to team with a big player, but opportunities in technical computation, such as CFD. https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b4af90be2b3d10e2f6b16d3f94f8a9c1&tab=core&_cview=1 DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals supporting the Blue Wolf program. The Blue … [Read more...]
DARPA Innovative Systems for Military Missions – Tactical Technology Office (TTO)
DARPA Innovative Systems for Military Missions - Tactical Technology Office (TTO)". Opportunities in autonomous systems: The TTO strategy seeks the development and demonstration of system level technologies and prototypes which outpace adversary capabilities and force structures. TTO is interested in advanced capabilities in all physical domains: Ground, … [Read more...]
AFRL Human-Centered Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Leveraged Science & Technology (S&T) Program
This call was issued in Feb. It contains some HPC topics, specifically the following items: (2) Human Trust and Interaction – develop technologies to improve human-to-human interactions as well as human-to-machine interactions, and (3) Human Analyst Augmentation – develop technologies to enhance ISR analyst performance and to test the efficacy of newly developed ISR … [Read more...]
DIA Inovation BAA Reannounced
DIA Innovation BAA - This call has been open since 2013, but they've reannounced it and are soliciting whitepapers across a variety of topics that match well to high-performance computing. See http://www.dia.mil/Business/Needipedia.aspx for a list of topics. Some have cutoff already, but some deadlines still … [Read more...]
Gender Diversity Study “In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last”
FiveThirtyEightScience continues the study of gender diversity with their article, "In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last". The author, Emma Pierson, downloaded and statistically analyzed 938,301 scientific papers from the arXiv, a website where physicists, mathematicians and other scientists often post their papers and inferred the authors’ gender from their first … [Read more...]
AMD Firepro S9150 5 TF/s Single, 2.5 TF/s Double-Precision GPU and OpenCL 1.2 Support
AMD just announced the Firepro S9150 GPU, the first to break 2.0 TF/s double-precision performance. No word yet on pricing or availability. Specifications: Cooling/Power/Form Factor Max Power: 235W Bus Interface: PCIe® x16 Slots: Two Form Factor: Full height/ Full length Cooling: Passive heat sink Memory Size/Type: 16GB GDDR5 Interface: … [Read more...]
SC14 Attendees Showcase your HPC Expertise at the Conference!
The SC14 committee is pleased to invite conference attendees from within the industry to share their stories of how HPC has transformed their endeavors and given them a competitive advantage. The Showcase will emphasize the tangible benefit of HPC in delivering innovations which enable companies to succeed within their particular market-space. Please be aware that the Showcase … [Read more...]
Summary of All SC14 Workshop Submissions With Important Dates – August Deadlines Fast Approaching
Hurry to submit your work! Following is a current list of the SC14 workshop submission annotated with the important dates. Please check the actual workshop websites for updates. The 9th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW) Abstract: Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, … [Read more...]