by Mark D. Hill on Jan 8, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Distributed Systems, Emerging Technology, Software Stack
Due to technology challenges and potential societal benefits, NSF has provided sustained funding for issues surrounding effective scaling of parallel and distributed computing, including through the Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability(XPS) Program, begun in 2012,...
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by Spyros Blanas on Jan 3, 2020 | Tags: Databases, Datacenters, HPC, Operating Systems, Persistent, Storage
More than a decade ago, the pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray envisioned a fourth paradigm of scientific discovery that uses computers to solve data-intensive scientific problems. Today, scientific discovery, whether observational, in-silico or experimental,...
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