The University of Houston Center for Advanced Computing & Data Systems is reaching out to Oil and Gas domain scientists/researchers who are keen to hear about alternative high-level programming models used to port seismic codes to use accelerators. High-level models such as OpenACC/OpenMP proposes to be more portable and more vendor neutral, and may be complementary to … [Read more...]
Navdy Provides Portable Heads-Up Display for Android and Iphone
Think of the possibilities! The San Francisco startup Navdy is accepting pre-orders for their device that works with Android and Iphone "Navdy projects a transparent image into the driver's field of view which appears to float outside of the windshield". In other words, it is a portable HUD (Heads-Up Display) projector that works with mobile devices! The current 40% price is … [Read more...]
Wearable Tech May One Day Monitor Disease
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]