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...]
Open Call to Run on the Beacon Intel Xeon Phi System
The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee (UT) is pleased to announce the 2014 open call for participation in the Beacon Project, an ongoing research project funded by the National Science Foundation and UT to explore the impact of emerging computer architectures on computational science and engineering. Beacon is a Cray CS300-AC … [Read more...]
Nov 2014 – AFRL will host the 2014 AFRL/Industry Autonomy IR&D TIMs
The 711th Human Performance Wing (HPW) and AFRL will host the 2014 AFRL/Industry Autonomy IR&D TIMs on 17-21 November 2014, Bldg. 190, Area B, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio. This event will focus on technology discussions for the four primary goals under AFRL's autonomy vision; (1) Human Machine Teaming, (2) Teams of Intelligent Machines, (3) … [Read more...]
Early Tech – Inexpensive Spray-on Photo Cells
Experts from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and the University of Cambridge have created a method of spray-coating a photovoltaic active layer by an air based process – similar to spraying regular paint from a can – to develop a cheaper technique which can be mass produced. The trick is to coat an object in perovskite, a calcium titanium … [Read more...]
Recovering Speech from a Potato-chip Bag Viewed Through Soundproof Glass – Even With Commodity Cameras!
Potatoes have ears as well as eyes - or at least potato-chip bags have ears. Researchers from MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. The ACM paper, "The visual microphone: passive recovery of sound from video" describes the algorithm. Many surfaces flexible enough to … [Read more...]
UK To Allow Driverless Car Testing In A Few Cities
Following the lead set by California, Florida, and Nevada, the UK has announced two measures that give the green light for driverless cars to take to UK roads from January 2015. UK cities can now bid for a share of a £10 million competition to host a driverless cars trial. The government is calling on cities to join together with businesses and research organisations to put … [Read more...]
New Data Transmission Record 42 Terabits Per Second (Tbs)
"A team from Denmark working at the German Karlsruhe Institute for Technology has broken the data transmission rate record previously set by a team in Germany (32 terabits per second). In this new effort, the team (with the High-Speed Optical Communications Group) achieved a rate of 43 terabits per second using just one laser and one fiber cable." Read more … [Read more...]