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NSF Funds New Testbeds for Cloud Application Experiments
Today the NSF announced a pair of $10 million cloud computing testbeds for the development of novel cloud architectures and applications.The post NSF Funds New Testbeds for Cloud Application...
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Seven New Projects Win Time on Blue Waters from NSF
The NSF has awarded 14 new allocations on the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer at NCSA. Seven of the awards are for new projects.The post Seven New Projects Win Time on Blue Waters from NSF appeared...
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This Week in HPC: Supercomputing Future Uncertain for NSF, and Cray and SGI...
In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research discuss a recent National Research Council report that indicates the NSF is falling behind in...
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IU to Develop Data Analysis Tools with NSF Grant
The NSF has awarded $5 million to a team of Indiana University Bloomington computer scientists working to improve how researchers across the sciences empower big data to solve problems.The post IU to...
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Glenn Lockwood on the NSF Future Directions Interim Report
Glenn K. Lockwood writes that a recent interim report on NSF Advanced Computing raises big concerns about the future of HPC at the National Science Foundation. With NSF funding currently under fire in...
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How Supercomputers Give Universities a Competitive Edge
In an NSF-funded study, a Clemson University team found that universities with locally available supercomputers were more efficient in producing research in critical fields than universities that...
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SDSC Gets One-year Extension for Gordon Supercomputer
The National Science Foundation has awarded the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) a one-year extension to continue operating its Gordon supercomputer, providing continued access to the cluster for...
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Transcript: Irene Qualters from the NSF Discusses the NSCI Initiative
In this video from the 2015 HPC User Forum, Irene Qualters from the National Science Foundation discusses National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). Established by an Executive Order by President...
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Video: Panel on US Plans for Advancing HPC with NSCI
In this video plus transcripts from the 2015 HPC User Forum in Broomfield, Bob Sorensen from IDC moderates a panel discussion on the the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). "Established by...
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User Agency Panel Discussion on the NSCI Initiative
In this video (with transcript) from the 2015 HPC User Forum in Broomfield, Bob Sorenson from IDC moderates a User Agency panel discussion on the NSCI initiative. "You all have seen that usable...
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Apply Now for XSEDE’s Jetstream Shared Cloud Research Allocations
XSEDE's new Jetstream shared cloud resource is coming online early next year, but you can now apply for Jetstream research allocations. The post Apply Now for XSEDE’s Jetstream Shared Cloud Research...
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NSF Funds Supercomputing for Neuroscientists at SDSC
Neuroscientists will find an easier path to supercomputiong thanks to new SDSC funding from the NSF. The project will contribute to the national BRAIN initiative announced by the Obama administration...
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Agave Platform Provides Science as a Service
Work began recently on the Agave Platform, an open ‘Science-as-a-Service’ (ScaaS) cloud platform for reproducible science. Funded by a $4 Million NSF grant, the Agave Platform will leverage the success...
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NSF Funds Regional Data Hubs
Today the NSF announced major awards totaling more than $5 million to support four regional Data Hubs organized by some of the top universities and Big Data researchers in the country. The post NSF...
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CADENS Project Seeking Data and Visualizations
Does your research generate, analyze, and/or visualize data using advanced digital resources? In its recent Call for Participation, the CADENS project is looking for scientific data to visualize or...
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NSF’s iPlant Rebrands to CyVerse, Provides Data Management and Computation...
The National Science Foundation’s premier data management platform for the life sciences has rebranded, shedding the project’s original label of iPlant Collaborative and donning the new name CyVerse....
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Why Sustainable Software Needs a Change in the Culture of Science
"Scientific research is dependent on maintaining and advancing a wide variety of software. However, software development, production, and maintenance are people-intensive; software lifetimes are long...
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Apply now for HPC Summer School & Blue Waters Graduate Program
Application deadlines are fast approaching for the Blue Waters Graduate Program and the International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences. The post Apply now for HPC Summer School...
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NCSA to Examine Effective Practices in Industrial HPC
The NSF has awarded $300K to NCSA to examine effective practices in industrial HPC. Led by Principal Investigator Merle Giles, the project will identify, document, and analyze effective practices in...
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Creating an Exascale Ecosystem Under the NSCI Banner
“We expect NCSI to run for the next two decades. It’s a bit audacious to start a 20 year project in the last 18 months of an administration, but one of the things that gives us momentum is that we are...
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