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CS 3604 Assignment 2: Supercomputers, Spring 1997
A history of supercomputing.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/SUPERCOM.Calle.HTML

Extractions: Supercomputers by Dan Calle First of all, just what is a supercomputer? We all know what microcomputers are and a growing number of people know what workstations are (really just very high-end microcomputers running a multi-user operating system), but when asked about mini-computers, mainframes, and supercomputers, many people, even those who have used such systems, will return less certain, often conflicting, answers. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing has this definition for "supercomputer:" A broad term for one of the fastest computers currently available. Such computers are typically used for number crunching including scientific simulations, (animated) graphics, analysis of geological data (e.g. in petrochemical prospecting), structural analysis, computational fluid dynamics, physics, chemistry, electronic design, nuclear energy research and meteorology. Perhaps the best known supercomputer manufacturer is Cray Research The speed of most computers was, for many years, measured by how many millions of instructions per second, or MIPS, they could execute. Variability in instruction sets has made this benchmark a poor indicator of performance and so it is rarely used anymore. Since supercomputers have always been number-crunchers, their speed is measured in floating point operations per second, or FLOPS, in units of megaflops (MFLOPS), gigaflops (GFLOPS), and teraflops (TFLOPS) which refer to millions, billions, and trillions of FLOPS, respectively.
Google Takes On Supercomputing | CNET News.com
Google takes on supercomputing By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer March 22, 2002,115 PM PT Google has begun an experiment that could turn its modest toolbar
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-867091.html

Extractions: Google has begun an experiment that could turn its modest toolbar software into a supercomputer to tackle scientific problems such as untangling genetic codes. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet search company invited 500 people to try out a new version of its toolbar that lets Windows users donate their computers' otherwise unused processing power to the Folding@home project at Stanford University. The project seeks to figure out how genetic information is converted into proteins, complex molecules whose three-dimensional structure is key to everything from fighting off a cold to transporting oxygen around the body. The work is the latest example of the distributed computing movement, in which computing jobs are farmed out in small chunks to ordinary PCs across the Internet, finding a use for otherwise untapped processing cycles. The movement has had grand ambitions to cure cancer , but thus far its chief successes have been curiosities such as the discovery of gigantic prime numbers There's no denying the popular appeal of some of the projects, however, which can pit hundreds of thousands of participants in contests to see who can crunch the most numbers.
Deal Boosts Open-source Supercomputing | CNET News.com
Deal boosts opensource supercomputing By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer November9, 2001, 1240 PM PT Platform Computing, a company that tries to harness the
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-275650.html?legacy=cnet
Icarus3 Project
The Intensive Computing for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research of European Scientists project is a consortium of Italian universities that provides researchers with supercomputing facilities.
http://www.cineca.it/projects/icarus/
Actively Seeking You
Employment information for the National Center for supercomputing Applications at UIUC.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Divisions/Admin/SRC/COPmain.html

Extractions: About Us NCSA Alliance TeraGrid Expeditions Atmospheric Discovery Community Codes Performance Engineering Data Quest ... Scientific Workspaces Outreach EOT Community Partnerships Private Sector Program User Information Getting Started Consulting Training Alliance Resources News Access Online data link Newsletter Press Room Actively Seeking You Actively Seeking You - Resume Submission Guidelines
Oxford Supercomputing Centre Home Page
Oxford supercomputing Centre. 4 June 1998 The inauguration of the Oxford supercomputingCentre took place at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory.
http://www.osc.ox.ac.uk/

Extractions: Oxford OX1 3QD Telephone: Fax: e-mail: support@osc.ox.ac.uk The Oxford Supercomputing Centre OSC was established as the result of support from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Joint Research Equipment Initiative 1997 and Silicon Graphics UK Ltd. The main computer resource installed under this grant, known as Oscar , has been deployed in a wide variety of research studies covering biological, medical, chemical, mathematical, physical and engineering topics including parallel computing itself. 4 June 1998 - The inauguration of the Oxford Supercomputing Centre took place at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory 28 July 2000 - Tosca , the OSC linux cluster, was installed to provide distributed memory services that would complement those on Oscar and enable us to test the effectiveness of less expensive equiment.
Technology Review Supercomputing Resurrected
Alarm Bell Gordon Bell, now a senior researcher at Microsoft, warns that offthe-shelfsupercomputing is a dead end. (Photograph by Anne Hamersky).
http://www.techreview.com/articles/tristram0203.asp

Extractions: Even in a field defined by continuous breakthroughs, the achievement was a shocker: last March the Japanese government fired up a computer that soon proved to be the fastest in the world, in some cases outperforming the next-fastest computer by a factor of 10. The Earth Simulator, built by NEC, took four years to assemble and cost at least $350 million. It quickly delivered real-world scientific results in global-climate modeling, completing simulations that made other computers look crude. Scientists worldwide lined up for the limited amount of computer time available to researchers outside Japan. By June, just weeks after the machine hummed to life, three of the six finalists for the prestigious Gordon Bell awards in high-performance computing had run their projects on the Earth Simulator. A smattering of articles last spring covered the news, quoting experts who compared the Earth Simulator to Sputnikanother instance of the United States having been severely outclassed in a critical technology. But outside the rarefied circles of high-end computing, the story soon died. U.S. computer vendors have been downplaying the achievement, dismissing the Earth Simulator as old technology or too specialized to be of much use, even insisting that it was a publicity stunt. Give us $400 million to spend on a single computer, and we could build something just as fast, says Peter Ungaro, vice president of high-performance computing at IBM.
CESUP-RS
of computing resources and publications bibliography.The National supercomputing Center is open to the academic and industrial community of Brazil.
http://www.cesup.ufrgs.br/cesup-e.html
Texas A&M Supercomputing Facility
The Texas A M University supercomputing Facility is dedicated to providing hardware,software and technical support to the university's faculty, staff, and
http://sc.tamu.edu/
Supercomputing Resurrected
supercomputing Resurrected ASCI Q machines. If this is the future ofsupercomputing, what are we to make of it? The machine doesn
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20730.html
CT Project: Home
Develops highperformance supercomputing technologies to use the unique vantage point of space to provide information about Earth's environment and help solve mysteries and advance our understanding of the universe.
http://nccsinfo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESS/
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NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT The supercomputing Speed Barrier
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19391.html

Extractions: Supercomputing speeds continue to rise, with yesterday's fastest machines buried by today's speed kings, but when will supercomputers reach their limits? Most experts agree that current barriers to supercomputing speeds which are approaching hundreds of teraflops will fall. A teraflop equals 1 trillion floating point operations per second. "There are problems that need to be solved," Joel Tendler, director of IBM's (NYSE: IBM) technology assessment and server group, told NewsFactor. "In the relative near term, the immediate barriers will be overcome, and [then] we'll have to overcome the next ones." However, while Tendler noted that creative and innovative thinking has always conquered computing
EverGreene Technology Park, OC-192 Fiber Connections
Offers connectivity to the Pittsburgh supercomputing Center for businesses.
http://www.evergreenepark.net
*** ZEUS - Centers Of European Supercomputing ***
ZEUS. Centers of European. supercomputing. The ZEUS Consortium (ZentrenEUropäischen supercomputings) was established to exploit the
http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/zeus/

Extractions: The ZEUS Consortium ( Z entren EU S upercomputings) was established to exploit the potential of the participating centres broad range of know-how and expertise in the field of MPP and also to create the oppurtunity to enter new fields of research that a single centre alone could hardly address. The ZEUS Consortium collaborates in various common and bilateral projects, organises joint workshops, colloquia and seminars, and publishes conference proceedings and technical reports. The aim of ZEUS is to be a growing Network of Excellence in the field of MPP. Click onto the logo to connect to the WWW server of the centre. Click onto the centres location to get the address and e-mail for a first contact. Paderborn The current ZEUS-II Project (which as ZEUS-I was supported by the European Union) also has some Management Back to IWR home page B. Przywara, 27.04.1995
Computational Structural Mechanics At NCSA
Computational Structural Mechanics Team at National Center for supercomputing Applications
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/CSM/
Center For Supercomputing Applications
Center for supercomputing applications. St.Petersburg RUSSIA. Samein Russian Charset help Center for supercomputing applications
http://www.csa.ru/CSA/

Extractions: Charset help Center for supercomputing applications was established in 1994 by the Russian Ministry for Science and Technologies at the Institute for High-Performance Computing and Data Bases The network connection to the outside world is provided by RUNNet Center provides local and remote users with the computing and informational facilities of the cluster of modern vector and parallel supercomputers. Works on networking and building an open supercomputing resource for the scientific and educational organizations of Russia are partially supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research via grant N 96-07-89218. Webmaster Last updated: 9-Dec-1999
Argonne National Laboratory Transportation Technology R&D Center
Focus advanced vehicle technologies alternative fuels, electric vehicles, advanced batteries, fuel cells, new materials, supercomputing applications, emission control, superefficient combustion engines, maglev railroads, student design competitions, manufacturing technology, intelligent transportation systems, transporting hazardous materials.
http://www.transportation.anl.gov/
Swinburne Centre For Astrophysics And Supercomputing
Astrophysics and supercomputing
http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/
PDS, Parallel Supercomputing
parallel and distributed. supercomputing. The parallel and distributedsystems group support large scale high performance computing
http://www.dl.ac.uk/TCSC/info/parallel_computers/main.html

Extractions: parallel and distributed The parallel and distributed systems group support large scale high performance computing facilities to further the advances in the computational science and engineering research communities. Facilities are provided to in-house and external users for both development and production work. The group is continually seeking new ways to expand the facilities for new application areas. The INTEL ISPC/860 Supercomputer An SP2 Frame For Further Information Contact: Dr. H.K.F. Yeung.
Charles E. Leiserson
Head of the supercomputing Technologies Group in the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Member of the Theory of Computation Group.
http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~cel/

Extractions: I am a member of the Theory of Computing Group in the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) . I am also Program Director of the Computer Science program in the Singapore-MIT Alliance My research group is developing a C-based multithreaded language called Cilk . We are currently working on an computing environment for adaptively parallel multithreading. This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant EIA-9975036 and in part by the Singapore/MIT Alliance. Here is my contact information: Charles E. Leiserson MIT Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 617-253-5833 Fax: 617-253-0415 Since I value my privacy, I do not publish my email address, although I am sure that you can find it (or guess it) without trying too hard. Unless you know me personally, if you wish to send me email, I respectfully request that you email my administrative assistant Leigh Deacon at deacon@mit.edu . Leigh will contact me on your behalf. Thank you. If you desire an appointment with me, please contact Leigh.

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