After the e-IRG Workshop in St. Paul's Bay, Malta,Primeur Magazineinvited Dr. Juan Miguel González-Aranda, e-IRG Delegate for Spain, Interim LifeWatch ERIC Chief Technology Officer and Deputy of the Directorate-General for International Relations at the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness in Spain for an interview about the European construction "commons" spirit and the essential role to this end coming from the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG). Dr. González-Aranda is chairing the e-IRG Working Group on the Long-Term Preservation of Scientific Research Data. The aim is to support and push e-IRG in being the real high-level expertise reflection group that assists in co-creating and establishing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the new EuroHPC Initiative as well. Read further...

Belgium has officially joined the European Commission's High Performance Computing Initiative. Belgium has signed the declaration on June 9, 2017 at the occasion of the EU Telecommunications Council in Luxembourg. The initiative of the European Commission will expand Europe's digital infrastructure and take supercomputer development at the next level. Read further...

ISC High Performance has appointed Dr. Erich Strohmaier of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, and Prof. Yutong Lu from the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, China, as ISC Fellows. ISC Fellows are individuals who have made and continue to make important contributions to the advancement of high performance computing (HPC), the community and the ISC High Performance conference series. Read further...

The ISC programme team, together with ISC 2018 programme chair Prof. Horst Simon, have announced 13 topics that will be the focus of next year's conference. These topics embrace a range of subject matter critical to the development of the high performance computing field, which, in return, impacts the quality of human life. Read further...

After the e-IRG Workshop in St. Paul's Bay, Malta,Primeur Magazineinvited Dr. Juan Miguel González-Aranda, e-IRG Delegate for Spain, Interim LifeWatch ERIC Chief Technology Officer and Deputy of the Directorate-General for International Relations at the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness in Spain for an interview about the European construction "commons" spirit and the essential role to this end coming from the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG). Dr. González-Aranda is chairing the e-IRG Working Group on the Long-Term Preservation of Scientific Research Data. The aim is to support and push e-IRG in being the real high-level expertise reflection group that assists in co-creating and establishing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the new EuroHPC Initiative as well. Read further...

When you think of turbulence, you might think of a bumpy plane ride. Turbulence, however, is far more ubiquitous to our lives than just air travel. Ocean waves, smoke from fire, even noise coming from jet engines or wind turbines are all related to turbulence. Read further...

Leidos, a global science and technology solutions expert, and Cray Inc. have signed a strategic alliance agreement to develop, market, and sell Multi-Level Security (MLS) solutions that include the Cray CS series of cluster supercomputers to Federal and commercial customers. Read further...

During the Dutch National Data Center Day on June 13, Asperitas will open a new showcase location for Immersed Computing at the atom86 - Schuberg Philis - data centre in the Amsterdam Schiphol airport area. Read further...

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego has appointed Christopher Irving manager of the Center's High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, effective June 1, 2017. Read further...

At Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to more than 100 supercomputers since the dawn of the computing era, elegance and simplicity of programming are highly valued but not always achieved. In the case of a new product, dubbed "Charliecloud", a crisp 800-line code helps supercomputer users operate in the high-performance world of Big Data without burdening computer centre staff with the peculiarities of their particular software needs. Read further...

IBM has been named Global Strategic Partner of the Year by Red Hat Inc., a provider of open source solutions. This award was announced at Red Hat Summit, which took place last month in Boston. Read further...

Baheal Pharmaceutical Group is extending the reach of Watson for Oncology to clinicians across China through a new multi-year strategic alliance. As the primary channel partner for Watson for Oncology in China, Baheal will serve a key role in not only accelerating cancer patients' access to cognitive technology, but over time, may also partner to bring Watson for Genomics and other future Watson Health innovation to China. Read further...

Climate change may keep you awake - and not just metaphorically. Nights that are warmer than normal can harm human sleep, researchers show in a new paper, with the poor and elderly most affected. According to their findings, if climate change is not addressed, temperatures in 2050 could cost people in the United States millions of additional nights of insufficient sleep per year. By 2099, the figure could rise by several hundred million more nights of lost sleep annually. Read further...

Scientists used to come to Gregory Kurtzer of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's IT department a lot, asking for a better way to use software containers in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment. After a while he got tired of saying, "Sorry, not possible". So he invented a solution and named it Singularity. Read further...

Researchers in Canada have taken a significant step towards enabling secure quantum communication via moving satellites, as announced by the Canadian Government in April 2017. Read further...

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) recently displayed the power of its new Owens Cluster by running the single-largest scale calculation in the Center's history. Scientel IT Corp used 16,800 cores of the Owens Cluster on May 24 to test database software optimized to run on supercomputer systems. The seamless run created 1.25 Terabytes of synthetic data. Read further...

There is an enormous amount that we do not understand about the fundamental causes and behaviour of cancer cells, but at some level, experts believe that cancer must relate to DNA and the genome. Read further...

To understand the nature of something extremely complex, you often have to study its smallest parts. In trying to decipher the universe, for example, we search for gravitational waves or faint waves of light from the Big Bang. And to comprehend the very essence of matter itself, we break it down to the subatomic level and use computer simulations to study particles like quarks and gluons. Read further...

Abdullah Muzahid, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a $450,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award to develop a hardware-based artificial intelligence system that can detect costly software bugs, system faults and security attacks in computer systems. Read further...

The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has developed algorithms to assist in determining the seriousness of patients on the basis of their physiological values. Read further...

IBM has been honored as a winner of a VMware 2016 Global Partner Innovation Award in the Integrate Public Clouds category. IBM was recognized at the VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2017, held in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Read further...