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Lessons of a Tadpole

The flow of information between cells in our bodies is exceedingly complex: sensing, signaling, and influencing each other in a constant flow of microscopic engagements. These interactions are...
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3/23/17 successes biology machine learning 1353 Views

Using XSEDE to understand how dark matter influences galaxy formation

Mike Boylan-Kolchin, assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, uses XSEDE's Stampede supercomputer located at The Texas Advanced Computing Center.
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2/21/17 successes stampede astronomy 819 Views

Travel Transformation

Fully autonomous vehicles or driverless cars are capable of sensing their environment and navigating without human input. They can detect surroundings using a variety of techniques such as radar,...
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2/13/17 successes tacc ecss 602 Views

GECAT PROJECT ANNOUNCES TWO NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

This GECAT project exists to support scientific collaboration and cooperation of researchers and developers spanning national boundaries as a way to develop new, innovative cyberinfrastructure for...
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2/13/17 successes ncsa 684 Views

Teaching Computers to Recognize Unhealthy Guts

A new proof-of-concept study by researchers from the University of California San Diego has succeeded in training computers to "learn" what a healthy versus an unhealthy gut microbiome...
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2/7/17 successes biology sdsc 753 Views

Comet Surpasses 10,000 Users

Comet, the petascale supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), an Organized Research Unit of UC San Diego, has easily surpassed its target of serving at least 10,000 researchers...
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2/7/17 successes sdsc comet 1003 Views

Update Computer Beats Humans

In the "Brains vs. AI" competition at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, a CMU School of Computer Science artificial intelligence program—"AI"—called Libratus beat...
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2/1/17 successes bridges carnegie mellon 807 Views

2017 International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the eighth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in...
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1/25/17 successes education 596 Views

Bridges Supercomputer Completed

The Phase 2 Upgrade of the Bridges supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has been approved by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which funded the project.
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1/9/17 successes bridges 939 Views

Designing Safer Buildings Against Natural Hazards

Natural hazards engineers have lacked the cyber infrastructure necessary to push their collaborative research to the next level—a level where computing resources and relevant, up-to-date...
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1/6/17 successes designsafe 547 Views
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