Biologists at UC Berkeley and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) – a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility – are using NERSC, the Office of Science’s primary supercomputing center, to identify a class of enzymes capable of editing out genes responsible for disease. This revolutionary work requires petaflops of computing power to sift […]
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SC16 Invited Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Kristin A. Persson Presents “The Materials Project – A Google of Materials”
Short Introduction: This talk will focus on how The Materials Project (www.materialsproject.org) is harnessing the power of supercomputing together with state-of-the-art quantum mechanical theory to compute the properties of all known inorganic materials and beyond, design novel materials and offer the data for free to the community together with online analysis and design algorithms. Invited […]
MIT Unveils New Supercomputing Center – Will Focus on HPC Data Analysis
According to Campus Technology, MIT just unveiled a new supercomputing center called MIT Lincoln Laboratory that will provide more than 1,000 MIT researchers with access to high-performance computing cluster nodes with a main focus on data analysis. The article references that the center features an interactive, on-demand parallel computing system running thousands of processors that […]
