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Utah University Turns to HPC for Safer Explosives Transport
In 2005, a semi-truck caught the nation’s attention when it crashed and caught fire, igniting 35,000 pounds of explosives it was carrying through Utah’s Spanish Fork Canyon. Photo: Utah Department of...
View ArticleGreening the World’s Most Ubiquitous Building Material
Concrete is one of the oldest building materials with a history dating back to ancient Egypt. Today, concrete – comprised primarily of water, aggregate and cement – is the most widely used material in...
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ANSYS Simulations Weigh in on Deflategate
Even if you aren’t among the third of Americans who will sit down to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday, if you follow the news you are undoubtedly familiar with ‘Deflategate,’ the scandal surrounding...
View ArticleBlacklisting Doesn’t Slow Intel Investment in China
Intel may be barred from selling leading edge technology to China’s top supercomputer sites but it is nonetheless ramping up its high-end collaboration with China. On April 21st, Intel launched the...
View ArticleISC Keynote Preview: Why Mercedes-Benz Uses HPC
World-renowned for automotive quality and safety, Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz cars are also highly innovative. To share the inside story, Dr. Jürgen Kohler, the head of NVH CAE and Vehicle Concepts at...
View ArticleSGI ERI Installation Illustrates Multi-use HPC
Traditional research and Big Data apps are increasingly run on the same HPC system as lines between their computational requirements blur and demand for dual-use capability grows, said Bob Braham, SGI...
View ArticleComputer Model Addresses Fate of Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight
Forensic reconstruction from an interdisciplinary research team offers new insight into the tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on March 8, 2014. More than one year later, the fate...
View ArticleDigital Prototyping a Mercedes
ISC 2015’s emphasis on HPC use in industry was reflected in the choice of Monday’s opening keynote speaker, Jürgen Kohler, senior manager, NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness) CAE & Vehicle...
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IDC: The Changing Face of HPC
At IDC’s annual ISC breakfast there was a good deal more than market update numbers although there were plenty of those: “We try to track every server sold, every quarter, worldwide,” said Earl Joseph,...
View ArticleArgonne Team Tackles Uncertainties in Engine Simulation
As we head deeper into the digital age, computers appropriate an ever greater share of the work of designing and testing physical systems, spanning the gamut from nuclear components to personal care...
View ArticleU of Michigan Project Combines Modeling and Machine Learning
Although we’ve yet to settle on a term for it, the convergence of HPC and a new generation of big data technologies is set to transform science. The compute-plus-data mantra reaches all the way to the...
View ArticleThe Case for ‘Inexactness’ in Supercomputing
Scientific computing must become less rigid and power hungry as researchers seek new ways to model and understand the real world, a climatologist argues. In a commentary published this week in the...
View ArticleFormula One Contemplates CFD-Only Future
Digital design has become central to Formula 1 racing, but don’t rule out wind tunnels just yet. That is the message coming out of a recent F1 Strategy Group meeting. The group comprises the sport’s...
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ASCI Turns 20; David Turek Offers IBM Retrospective
Twenty years ago President Bill Clinton announced that the United States would maintain its U.S. nuclear arsenal without nuclear explosive testing. The challenge, of course, was how to actually carry...
View ArticleAccelerating HPC in Formula One
The Formula One racing community has embraced HPC as an essential part of its workflow to build ever-speedier race cars, but suggestions that CFD should obviate the need for wind tunnel testing...
View ArticleRealistic Simulator Replicates Combat Injuries
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a detailed computer model of an injured human leg that includes the complex workings of blood...
View ArticleSpace Weather Forecasting Clears Another Hurdle
Space weather forecasting might not have a dedicated segment on the evening news, but the disruptive power looming above the Earth’s atmosphere cannot be underestimated. One form of space weather in...
View ArticleOLCF Researchers Scale R to Tackle Big Science Data Sets
Sometimes lost in the discussion around big data is the fact that big science has long generated huge data sets. “In fact, large-scale simulations that run on leadership-class supercomputers work at...
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ExxonMobil, NCSA, Cray Scale Reservoir Simulation to 700,000+ Processors
In a scaling breakthrough for oil and gas discovery, ExxonMobil geoscientists report they have harnessed the power of 717,000 processors – the equivalent of 22,000 32-processor computers – to run...
View ArticleResearchers Recreate ‘El Reno’ Tornado on Blue Waters Supercomputer
The United States experiences more tornadoes than any other country. About 1,200 tornadoes touch down each each year in the U.S. with most occurring during tornado season, from March through June....
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