Primeur live 2013-06-18

TOP500

Facts and figures of the 41st TOP500 list

2013 International Supercomputing Conference opens in historic, modern Leipzig

Hardware

CRESTA project to figure out how to keep more than 100 million threads busy

DEEP project aims to build and monitor exascale architecture

Mont-Blanc hardware ready to test in July 2013

Applications

Megware and Chemnitz University of Technology in international battle for supercomputing title

Company news

nCore HPC announces the BrownDwarf Y-class supercomputer

Altair's PBS Professional deployed on Cray XC30 supercomputer at JAIST

Zuse Institute Berlin uses DataDirect Networks to accelerate Big Data analytics for advanced scientific research

Cray launches complete Lustre storage solution across HPC and Big Data computing markets

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2013-06-06 (2012-10-12) University of Southampton - Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

Computational Engineers at the University of Southampton have built a supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pi computers and Lego.
 

2013-06-04 Big Data - Big Deal session at Terena conference

Recording of Big Data Session. Presentations from Harold Teunissen,William Jonhston, Stephen Pinfield.
 

2013-06-03 Lightning talks at Terena 2013 conference

Programme at: https://tnc2013.terena.org/core/session/2

2013-05-23 Science as Voyage: Ian Foster at TEDxCERN

Ian Foster's research for high performance distributed and parallel computing has many call him 'father of grid computing'. Ian will take us on a journey of Big Process for Big Data, with a call to action for the kind of collaborative processes we need.

2013-05-23 Consciousness & the Brain: John Searle at TEDxCERN

John Searle one of the world's great philosophers of mind and language, has spent fifty years stimulating thinking around the world. What he says about consciousness as a biological phenomenon will challenge you! Cogitation, Consciousness & The Brain.

2013-05-23 DNA: George Church at TEDxCERN - Brain Activity Map project

George Church helped initiate the Human Genome Project and is one of the 6 scientists who proposed the The Brain Activity Map Project that's making a splash in scientific circles. He will speak about recent breakthroughs with DNA. (Video not complete. So perhaps will be replaced)

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