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ACCESS MAGAZINE - FALL 2012

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Top problems with the TOP500

Bill Kramer, Deputy Project Director for Blue Waters, discusses some of the drawbacks to using Linpack alone to determine the TOP500 list.

Changing the world

Cray President and CEO Peter J. Ungaro recently spoke with Access' Barbara Jewett about why the company Seymour Cray founded continues to be inimitable.

T. rex on your desk!

You are probably familiar with virtual reality, interactive apps, and handheld computers, but have you heard of their progeny, augmented reality?

Harmonic convergence

Many institutes dedicated to applying advanced computing to a range of fields and issues share a single building on the University of Illinois campus, and the close quarters aid their collaboration and cross-pollination.

What is a petaflop?!

A petaflop refers to the completion of 1 quadrillion calculations per second. Look at this infographic to help you understand how amazingly huge quadrillions are

Making history

Early results indicate Blue Waters will live up to expectations.

Doing with less

Researchers used NCSA's Forge to improve computational protein structure modeling.

Duo image

The NCSA visualization team of David Bock and Mark Van Moer provides technical expertise and assistance to computational scientists and researchers desiring to represent and analyze data generated by computational models to facilitate the understanding of the simulated phenomena.

News & notes

Alan Craig joins XSEDE as Digital Humanities Specialist  ·  NCSA, KISTI form Joint Lab  ·  SAAHPC 2012 best paper wins processor  ·  Additional Illinois Fellows selected  ·  iForge cluster upgraded  ·  Campus Champions Fellows named  ·  Cooperation and ideas  ·  New project for science cybersecurity  ·  Illinois professors receive Fernbach Award  ·  SPIN at NCSA  ·  Petascale Day  ·  Dunning to retire in 2013

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