Community Supercomputer Brings Data Analytics to the Masses

Massive supercomputer power is usually reserved for big companies or governments, but now it’s available to the public, small businesses, researchers and startups in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The $3.5 million Tandy Community Supercomputer is considered the first of its kind in the U.S.

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Peregrine Supercomputer Takes Flight in Search for Renewable Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy recently unveiled its innovative warm-water, liquid-cooled supercomputer—Peregrine, which is housed in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) recently inaugurated Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF).  The new data center was designed to be one of the most energy efficient facilities in the world, operating at a power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.06 or better.

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Supercomputer Reveals Secrets of Black Holes

Black holes may cause the creation of stars, not their destruction, according to new discoveries by University of Leicester supercomputer “Complexity.”
The supercomputer is one of five supercomputers in the U.K. that are part of a project to explore the universe, according to a recent report by the BBC. Complexity went online in the summer of 2012 with government funding to build a supercomputer capable of doing unprecedented astronomical research.

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Predicting the Future with Supercomputers?

Supercomputers can perform amazing analysis, but can they predict the future? Data scientist and one of the foremost proponents in the emerging field of predictive supercomputing Kalev Leetaru predicts they will be able to.

For Leetaru’s 2011 study “Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large–scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space,” he applied tone and geographic analysis to a 30–year worldwide news archive using the Nautilus SGI UV supercomputer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences. Nautilus created a network comprised of 10 billion items connected by one hundred trillion relationships.

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Supercomputer Boosts Cutting-Edge Stroke Research

Stroke, which happens when a clot blocks an artery or blood vessel and restricts blood flow to the brain, kills nearly 130,000 people each year in the United States and is a leading cause of serious, long-term adult disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  But new research could one day limit the damage caused by the deadly disease.

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Shoppers Wish Retailers a Very Mobile Christmas

Every year at this time, each of the nation's retailers writes Santa a lengthy note, telling him how good it has been and how it deserves a really special Christmas. Recently, Saint Nick hasn't been reading those notes closely.

Holiday sales numbers haven't been quite what retailers have hoped to see. This year may prove to be more of the same. But where retailers do seem to find hope is in the notion that online sales, and mobile commerce in particular, will play a big part in this year's festivities.

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Tackling America's greatest drug problem

America has a major drug problem, but it’s not the one that probably comes immediately to mind. It is a continual and rotating shortage of important drugs needed to treat a variety of legitimate medical conditions impacting patients and the healthcare supply chain.

(Read my complete article at Healthcare Finance News)