This Week In HPC Episode 74 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

As the yardstick against which outer space is measured, type Ia supernovae are famous for consistency, yet new observations suggest their origins may not be so uniform.

This Week In HPC Episode 73 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

By John West; I have chosen to work in HPC because the work we do makes the world a better place. As SC has illustrated effectively over the past two years, #hpcmatters.

This Week In HPC Episode 72 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.

For the past two years, since June 2013, the top supercomputer in the world has been Tianhe-2. (Its name translates to Sky Riverthe Milky Way.) Tianhe-2 lives in Guangzhou, China, and on a benchmark test, it reached 33.86 petaflop per second.

Over 100 people converged to assemble Purdue University’s latest research supercomputer, Rice — in a single day!

The fourth annual Asian Student Supercomputing Challenge concluded last Friday. All 16 teams, nearly 100 students total, were being honored for making it to the final round in the largest student supercomputing contest in the world.

An interview with Dr. David Rohr, a postdoctoral scholar at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS). He is in charge of the GPU-based real-time track reconstruction for the ALICE experiment at CERN.

This Week In HPC Episode 71 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman.