The Lead
Alzheimer's-Cancer Link found using Biomedical Data, Supercomputing
April 22, 2014 3:35 pm | by Jorge Salazar, TACC | News | Comments
A team led by Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI) scientists has found that Alzheimer's disease and cancer share a pathway in gene transcription, a process essential for cell reproduction and growth. They published their findings in December 2013 in the open access journal Scientific Reports by the Nature Publishing Group.
Intel Selects Georgia Tech as Site for Next Parallel Computing Center
April 22, 2014 12:25 pm | by Intel | News | Comments
As modern computer systems become more powerful, utilizing as many as millions of processor...
Blood Flow in the Brain, Multi-Scale Modeling and More: Life as an Early-career HPC Researcher
April 18, 2014 2:53 pm | by Andrew Purcell | Articles | Comments
iSGTW speaks to Derek Groen, a post-doctoral researcher from the Centre for Computational...
400GbE and High Performance Computing
April 18, 2014 1:54 pm | by John D’Ambrosia | Blogs | Comments
The last time the IEEE 802.3 Working Group addressed the “Next Rate” of Ethernet was when 10 GbE...
Crystallized Purple Food Dye
April 23, 2014 10:33 am | News | CommentsThis 640x image of crystallized purple food dye received an honorable mention in the 2013 Nikon Small World Photomicrophotography Competition. It was taken by Mr. Waldo Nell of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, using a darkfield technique.
Big Data Approach to Bioinformatics Profiling Identifies New Mammalian Clock Gene
April 22, 2014 6:37 pm | by Penn Medicine | News | CommentsOver the last few decades researchers have characterized a set of clock genes that drive daily rhythms of physiology and behavior in all types of species, from flies to humans. Over 15 mammalian clock proteins have been identified, but researchers surmise there are more. A team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania wondered if big-data approaches could find them.
Looking for Job Security? Consider becoming an HPC Performance Tool Developer
April 22, 2014 4:01 pm | by Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Centre Institute for Advanced Simulation | Blogs | CommentsWhen I started to work on performance tools for parallel computers 25 years ago, I wasn’t sure how long I would be able to work in this interesting and exciting area of high performance computing. Performance was always in the center of HPC, so anyone helping application developers to optimize and tune their codes was in high demand.
Drones Unearth More Details about Chaco Culture
April 22, 2014 3:40 pm | by Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press | News | CommentsRecently published research describes how archaeologists outfitted a customized drone with a heat-sensing camera to unearth what they believe are ceremonial pits and other features at the site of an ancient village in New Mexico. The discovery of the structures hidden beneath layers of sediment and sagebrush is being hailed as an important step that could help archaeologists shed light on mysteries long buried by eroding desert landscapes
NASA Super Guppy Makes Special Delivery
April 22, 2014 12:18 pm | News | CommentsNASA’s Super Guppy, a wide-bodied cargo aircraft, landed at the Redstone Army Airfield near Huntsville, AL, on March 26, 2014, with a special delivery: an innovative composite rocket fuel tank. The Super Guppy has a hinged nose that opens and allows large cargos like the tank to be easily unloaded.
Up In Smoke: Rocky Mountain High Redefined by Legalized Marijuana
April 21, 2014 3:38 pm | by Randy C. Hice | Blogs | CommentsTens of thousands of pot smokers wheezed a sigh of relief when recreational marijuana use was made legal January 1, 2014. Gone is the cottage industry of gray-area physicians rubber-stamping medical prescriptions for a well-informed gaggle of would-be stoners who memorized popular conditions sure to garner approval.
Poll: Big Bang a Big Question for Most Americans
April 21, 2014 11:48 am | by Jennifer Agiesta and Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | News | CommentsFew Americans question that smoking causes cancer. But they express bigger doubts as concepts that scientists consider to be truths get further from our own experiences and the present time, an Associated Press-GfK poll found. Americans have more skepticism than confidence in global warming, the age of the Earth and evolution and have the most trouble believing a Big Bang created the universe 13.8 billion years ago.
Engineer Vital to Moon Landing Success Dies
April 21, 2014 11:37 am | by AP | News | CommentsJohn C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful moon landing in 1969, has died. He was 95. As NASA describes on its Web site, while under pressure during the U.S.-Soviet space race, Houbolt was the catalyst in securing U.S. commitment to the science and engineering theory that eventually carried the Apollo crew to the moon and back safely.
Geologic Icon: The Grand Canyon
April 21, 2014 9:04 am | by M. Justin Wilkinson, Jacobs at NASA-JSC | News | CommentsThe Grand Canyon in northern Arizona is a favorite for astronauts shooting photos from the International Space Station, as well as one of the best-known tourist attractions in the world. The steep walls of the Colorado River canyon and its many side canyons make an intricate landscape that contrasts with the dark green, forested plateau to the north and south.
Using Light for Data Transmission on a Terabit Scale
April 20, 2014 6:34 am | by Nik Papageorgiou | News | CommentsScientists from EPFL and KIT have achieved data transmissions on a terabit scale with a single laser light frequency using miniaturized optical frequency combs. The findings open the way for using this system in future high-speed communication systems. A continuous laser light is made of a single...
Brain-derived Computing beyond Von Neumann
April 18, 2014 3:30 pm | by Nages Sieslack | Articles | CommentsKarlheinz Meier, professor of experimental physics at Heidelberg University’s Kirchhoff Institute of Physics, will deliver a keynote talk at the International Supercomputing Conference 2014 (ISC’14). The theme for this talk will be ‘Brain-derived computing beyond Von Neumann — achievements and challenges’. Meier is one of the co-directors of Europe’s Human Brain Project (HBP), where he will be leading a research group
Exciting Advances: Growth of HPC in the Life Sciences
April 18, 2014 3:12 pm | by Andrew Purcell | Articles | CommentsManuel Peitsch, co-founder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, will chair a session on high-performance computing (HPC) in the life sciences at ISC’14 in Leipzig, Germany, in June. Peitsch is also a professor of bioinformatics at the University of Basel in Switzerland and is vice president of biological systems research at Philip Morris International.
Crews Find Suspected Area of Radiation Leak, May Send Robots
April 18, 2014 12:23 pm | by Jeri Clausing, Associated Press | News | CommentsTwo months after radiation leaked from the federal government's half-mile deep nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico, officials said April 17, 2014, that crews have found contamination underground in the area where waste was most recently being stored.
Astronomers Spot Most Earth-Like Planet Yet
April 18, 2014 12:06 pm | by Alicia Chang, AP Science Writer | News | CommentsAstronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected — a distant, rocky world that's similar in size to our own and exists in the Goldilocks zone where it's not too hot and not too cold for life. The find, announced April 17, 2014, excited planet hunters who have been scouring the Milky Way galaxy for years for potentially habitable places outside our solar system.
Close-up: Mouse Small Intestine
April 18, 2014 9:21 am | News | CommentsThis 200x image of a small intestinal section from a mouse expressing GFP-tagged non-muscle myosin II received an honorable mention in the 2013 Nikon Small World Photomicrophotography Competition. t was taken with large format image stitch using swept-field confocal fluorescence microscopy.
