HPC Drives Life Science Research at Texas Supercomputing Center

Life science accounts for a key segment of the 3,000 research scientists in astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, aerospace engineering, petroleum engineering and geosciences using the Stampede supercomputer system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas, Austin. “Oscar” Jiao, the center’s life science computing specialist, recently sat down with the Go Parallel Editor Joe Maglitta to talk about how researchers are using the nine-petaflop supercomputer to pursue new discoveries in their fields.

(See the video interview at http://goparallel.sourceforge.net)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center Joins OpenMP board

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a consortium of 24 vendors and research organizations creating the standard for world’s most popular shared-memory parallel programming model.

(Read my complete blog on the topic at goparallel.sourceforge.net)

Harnessing BioMed Big Data with Parallel, Cloud

Parallel and grid provide computational power and storage to face the new flood of biomedical and healthcare data, but need coupling with cloud computing to reduce analysis costs, simplify related IT infrastructures and change the very models of research and healthcare provision.

That’s according to the luminary organizers of the 2nd International Workshop on 
Parallel and Cloud-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (ParBio) set for September 22-25, 2013 in Washington, D.C.

(See my complete blog, with Joseph Maglitta, on the topic at http://goparallel.sourceforge.net)

$1,734 Helps You Master Parallel Universe

Mystified by aspects of parallel computing? You’re not alone. But take heart.  Advance orders are being taken on Amazon.com for a massive four-volume “Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing” that costs a mere $1,734.81.

Yes, you read the price correctly.  Relatively speaking, that’s a bargain. The four hardcover books and companion eReference tool normally sell for $2,050, but Amazon offers a 15% discount, bringing the price to $1,734.81.

(Read my complete blog on the topic at http://goparallel.sourceforge.net)

Change of Plans -- Anthony Scaglione (AFP practioner profile)

As a top financial executive, Anthony Scaglione says that getting peers to see eye-to-eye and work toward common objectives can often feel like pulling teeth. It’s an appropriate image for this treasury executive, who originally had his sights on a career in dentistry.

 

“When I went to college I wanted to be a dentist,” Scaglione revealed. But he soon discovered that working on other people’s teeth wasn’t really for him. “After one bio class, I switched to finance.”

(Read my complete profile in Exchange Magazine, at www.afponline.org)
 

Office Politics

The power of the purse is critical to governing — some even say it is the key. Not surprisingly, state, municipal and local treasurers understand this better than just about anybody in government.

What is surprising, however, is that government treasurers are increasingly running for higher office — and winning.

 

(Read my complete article in Exchange Magazine, at www.afponline.org)

 

Aim HIGH

Alison Cornell has her sights set on being the best CFO on the planet.

Cornell, CTP, is chief financial officer for Covance Inc., a $2 billion public drug development

services company in Princeton, NJ, with global operations in more than 30 countries.

 

(Read my complete article at in Exchange Magazine, at www.afponline.org)