NERSC – SC17 http://sc17.supercomputing.org The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:04:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 120047766 New SC17 Video: With HPC, Researchers Search for Elusive Proteins that Perform Gene Editing – Discoveries Could Drive Cures for Diseases, Agricultural Advances http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/11/09/nersc-discoveries-could-drive-cures-for-diseases-agricultural-advances/ Thu, 09 Nov 2017 17:58:53 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=6776 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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]]> 6776 Berkeley Lab’s Katherine Yelick Wins Ken Kennedy Award http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2015/10/13/berkeley-labs-yelick-wins-ken-kennedy/ Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:44:00 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/2015/10/13/berkeley-labs-yelick-wins-ken-kennedy/ UC Berkeley Professor to Receive ACM/IEEE-CS Kennedy Award at SC15 for Contributions to International Research Agenda Katherine Yelick ACM and IEEE Computer Society have named Katherine Yelick as the recipient of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for innovative research contributions to parallel computing languages that have been used in both the research […]

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