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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
ArrayFire Open Sources Tertiary Projects Only – More Promised Later
The ArrayFire GPU accelerated library software has made news by announcing they are moving to open source. Right now only the wrappers and examples that will bring more customers are currently open source. A business-savvy first move. Specifically, the ArrayFire website states, " ... it’s neither simple nor straightforward to take a closed software Open Source. Earlier … [Read more...]
Dongarra and Team Start New Supercomputing Journal
Jack Dongarra and his colleague Vladimir Voevodin have started a new peer-reviewed publication called “Journal Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations” (JSFI). The Editorial Director is Leonid Sokolinsky at the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Following is the foreword: Parallel scientific computing has entered a new era. Multicore processors on … [Read more...]