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

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.

82. 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

CNET tech sites: Price comparisons Product reviews Tech news Downloads ... Site map Google takes on supercomputing By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer March 22, 2002, 1:15 PM PT 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.

83. 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

84. 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/

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85. Actively Seeking You Employment information for the National Center for supercomputing Applications at UIUC. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Divisions/Admin/SRC/COPmain.html

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 FAQ's Explore the Silicon Prairie Explore this section to locate current employment opportunities. Information on how to apply for a position is provided at the end of each position description. Please be sure to include the search number when applying. The University of Illinois is a Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Full Time Positions Technology Information Specialist #8695-NCSA Visiting Research Programmer (Specializing as a Linux Specialist) #8692-NCSA Graduate Assistant or Hourly Positions No open positions at this time. Undergraduate Student Hourly Positions No open positions at this time. The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Contact career@ncsa.uiuc.edu

86. 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/

Oxford Supercomputing Centre A centre for multi-disciplinary research in the application of high performance computing OSC News 29 January 2003 (2pm) Another workshop afternoon for new and novice users. 22 January 2003 (12pm) A meeting to talk about a Cluster Computing Special Interest Group . The main idea is to provide a forum in which administrators of clusters within Oxford University can share knowledge. Discussion has moved to the "clusters" mailing list. Contact Information Address: Centre Manager Oxford Supercomputing Centre Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QD Telephone: Fax: e-mail: support@osc.ox.ac.uk History 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.

87. 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

Subscribe Renew Customer Service Premium Content ... FREE NEWSLETTER TOPICS Biotech Business Computing Energy ... Computers Alarm Bell: Gordon Bell, now a senior researcher at Microsoft, warns that off-the-shelf supercomputing is a dead end. (Photograph by Anne Hamersky) Supercomputing Resurrected Last year, Japan fired up an ultrafast computer that puts its closest competitors to shame. What will it take for the United States to catch up? By Claire Tristram February 2003 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 Sputnik—another 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.

88. 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

89. 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/

T E X A S N I V E R S I T Y S UPERCOMPUTING F ACILITY Teague Building , Mail Stop 3363 College Station, TX 77843-3363 help@sc.tamu.edu Technical Assistance Account ... Internal Web (Staff access only) IBM Regatta p690 , a 64-processor SGI Origin 3800 and a 32-processor SGI Origin 2000 . A 7 TB EMASS system is available for archiving. Relevant Issues AMASS upgrade Tue Mar 18 IBM Regatta in Production Supercomputing Short Courses NCSA Explains the Grid ... Supercomputingonline Academic Articles - Our privacy policy Suggestions for viewing this page Powered by the Apache WebServer Site maintained by webmaster@sc.tamu.edu

90. 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

91. 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/

Exploring Earth and space with supercomputers Search New and Notable: Applications News: National Invasive Species Forecasting Shining IBEAM on the Universe Second Earth System Modeling Framework Community Meeting May 15 in Princeton, NJ Weather and Climate Modeling Background for Science Writers ... Credits Authorizing NASA Official: James Fischer, CT Project Manager Web Curator: Jarrett Cohen Designer: Judy Laue Last Modified: March 12, 2003 NASA Privacy, Security, Accessibility,

92. Font Color= FF0000 Size=1 Face=arial,helvetica B NEWSFACTOR NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT The supercomputing Speed Barrier http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19391.html

The Supercomputing Speed Barrier NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: The Supercomputing Speed Barrier Send this Article Print this Article Talkback Related Stories By Jay Lyman NewsFactor Network September 13, 2002 The Q supercomputer eventually will be able to surpass 100 teraflops, Los Alamos National Laboratory spokesperson Jim Danneskiold told NewsFactor. "We don't see a significant barrier, and we've announced plans for 200 teraflops," he said. In This Story: Big Speed Bumps Getting Faster Physical Limits Going Molecular ... Related Stories 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

93. EverGreene Technology Park, OC-192 Fiber Connections Offers connectivity to the Pittsburgh supercomputing Center for businesses. http://www.evergreenepark.net

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94. *** 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/

ZEUS Centers of European Supercomputing 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. Members of the ZEUS Consortium 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. Amsterdam Athens Bergen Chemnitz ... 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

95. Computational Structural Mechanics At NCSA Computational Structural Mechanics Team at National Center for supercomputing Applications http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/CSM/

Mission Statement People Software FAQs ... (TM) Contact dandy@ncsa.uiuc.edu with questions or comments regarding this page. Last updated July 22, 2001 For more information on NSF's PACI program see http://www.cise.nsf.gov/acir/ and http://www.npaci.edu/online/ All trademarks are owned by their respective organizations.

96. Center For Supercomputing Applications Center for supercomputing applications. St.Petersburg RUSSIA. Samein Russian Charset help Center for supercomputing applications http://www.csa.ru/CSA/

Center for supercomputing applications St.Petersburg RUSSIA Same in Russian 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. News General info Computing facilities Monitoring of the CSA's resources (for internal use only) Application form Remote access via firewall (Russian version only) FTP archive Tutorial papers User support System Department ... Webmaster Last updated: 9-Dec-1999

97. 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/

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98. Swinburne Centre For Astrophysics And Supercomputing Astrophysics and supercomputing http://www.swin.edu.au/astronomy/

99. 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

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. Intel iPSC/860 The INTEL ISPC/860 Supercomputer Hardware 64 Intel i860 XR nodes 12 Gbytes of locally attached disc Ethernet connections Sun-670MP as front-end Performance System Software Fortran and C cross compilers IBM SP2 An SP2 Frame Hardware Each node has a 66.5 Mhz clock, Ethernet and FDDI connections Performance User Space protocol High reliability and Availability Multiple network paths between nodes 'Hot swaps' of individual nodes Redundant power supplies System Software Parallel System Support Programs Parallel Programming Environment Loadleveller Batch management system Fortran 77/90, C and C++ BLAS and ESSL scientific libraries For Further Information Contact: Dr. H.K.F. Yeung.

100. 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/

Charles E. Leiserson 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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