Research Computing

The Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) is pleased to announce its first conference highlighting research computing at Princeton to be held on May 8-9, 2012 at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. This conference will provide a perfect opportunity to engage Princeton's high performance computing community in developing a common vision on how to further strengthen its resources and services.

After several years of planning and more than a year of construction, Princeton University's High-Performance Computing Research Center opened its doors this week. The facility gives researchers on campus new capacity to tackle some of the world's most complex scientific challenges.

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"For his pioneering work in computational magnetohydrodynamics, including the development and dissemination of widely used codes, and the application of those codes to important problems in astrophysics."

For scientists, supernovae are true superstars -- massive explosions of huge, dying stars that shine light on the shape and fate of the universe.

For a brief burst of time, supernovae can radiate more energy than the sun will emit in its lifetime. With the potential energy of 25 hundred trillion trillion nuclear weapons, they can outshine entire galaxies, producing some of the biggest explosions ever seen, and helping track distances across the cosmos.

The TeraGrid 2011 conference will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of the TeraGrid in research and education. The conference will also mark the beginning of the National Science Foundation’s eXtreme Digital Resources for Science and Engineering program and will give scientists and engineers information on the resources and services to be provided through this successor to the TeraGrid.

A Princeton University-led research team has developed the capability to produce realistic movies of earthquakes based on complex computer simulations that can be made available worldwide within hours of a disastrous upheaval.

"In our view, this could truly change seismic science," said Princeton's Jeroen Tromp, a professor of geosciences and applied and computational mathematics, who led the effort.

EGPGV is the premier international event focusing on parallel graphics and
visualization technology, where novel solutions exploiting and defining new
trends in parallel hardware and software architectures are presented. The
aim of the symposium is to strongly encourage exchange of experiences and
knowledge in parallel and distributed visual computing and its application
to all aspects of computer graphics and data visualization.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop.

If patterns of globalization over decades could be plotted on a world map, what might they look like and what deeper insights might they reveal, wondered Miguel Centeno. Jeanne Altmann and Catherine Markham, on the other hand, wanted to understand how groups of baboons in the Amboseli basin of East Africa were coping with their changing environment.