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Compiler 3/15/13: Bloomberg Win, Obama Visit
SMARTDATA PLATFORM GETS BLOOMBERG NOD A few weeks ago, we urged readers to vote in the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge for the City of Chicago’s entry, a collaboration with the Urban Center for Computation...
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The Supercomputer Time Machine [Video]
A model of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine (via Wikimedia Commons) The general public tends to think of supercomputers as the big brothers of their home computers; a larger, faster and more...
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Designing a Robot to Watch the Plants Grow
The robotic system in action (from Vision Systems Design) Among scientific disciplines, botany might be considered one of the least tech-minded branches, concerned as it is with the natural world of...
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Compiler 3/29/13: The Supercomputer Neighborhood, The Local Cloud Maverick
THE ILLINOIS SUPERCOMPUTER NEIGHBORHOOD GROWS On Thursday, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois celebrated the full launch of Blue Waters, their new...
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Compiler 4/12/13: TEDxCERN and City Data Culture
WHEN TED MEETS CERN We’re happy to announce that Computation Institute director Ian Foster will be speaking at the first-ever TEDxCERN conference, to be held May 3rd at the particle physics laboratory...
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Big Data Week: Veins and Campaigns
Newer, faster supercomputers have allowed scientists to create detailed models of blood flow that help doctors understand what happens at the molecular level. (Photo from Argonne) This week, some 25...
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The Parallel Path to Computing Present and Future
The Alliant FX/8, an early parallell supercomputer. For the last few decades, parallelism has been the secret weapon of computing. Based on the theory that large problems could be solved faster if they...
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How to Sling-Shot Mobile Computing Beyond Angry Birds
Many of us carry a computer in our pocket that’s as powerful as the supercomputers of the late 1980′s. Many of us also mostly use that revolutionary device to slingshot cartoon birds at evil pigs....
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Rick Stevens on the Race to Exascale
The exascale — one million trillion calculations per second — is the next landmark in the perpetual race for computing power. Although this speed is 500 times faster than the world’s current leading...
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Compiler 5/31/13: UrbanCCD’s New/Old Partner, DSSG Update and More
FROM CITY HALL TO HYDE PARK In its early days, the Urban Center for Computation and Data formed a valuable partnership with the data team installed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel within Chicago’s city...
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Mira’s Débutante Ball
Even the world’s fastest supercomputers need some time to prep themselves to join society. After eight months of construction and nearly a year of early research projects testing out its capabilities,...
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Compiler 7/12/13: China Rising and A Tree Grows in Data Science
CHINA’S LATEST SUPERCOMPUTER VICTORY China’s Milky Way 2 supercomputer was recently declared the fastest supercomputer in the world by industry scorekeeper Top500, the latest move in the increasingly...
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