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What’s New With Good Ol’ FORTRAN?

For a programming language that’s almost 60 years old, FORTRAN isn’t exactly a household word. Slashdot Media Contributing Editor David Bolton shows us what’s changed over the years, and why it’s still a key tool for the engineering and scientific communities.

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Rest Easy, Folks: Mercury Won’t Soon Collide With Earth

Scientists have long theorized that there is a small chance that the planet Mercury could collide with Earth one day, which would destroy life on our planet. But a researcher who just ran simulations on a supercomputer says the chances of that happening are far less than previously believed. Richard …

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Hacking Ebola: Supercomputer Assists in Antiviral Search

Scientists at the University of Leeds will enlist the use of a supercomputer in their quest to develop a cure for those infected. Although there are experimental vaccines being tested for Ebola, to date there has little progress in developing drugs to treat those who become infected. In this brief …

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Supercomputers Team up to Confirm Gravity Waves

Intel Xeon based “Comet” and “Stampede” contributed over a million hours to project The recent confirmation that gravity waves exist, originally predicted by Einstein a century ago was made possible in part to the supercomputers that processed a huge amount of data, according to this brief by Slashdot Media contributing …

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Free Hands-on Workshop on Parallel Programming

Web-based instruction plus self-study teach how to get the most out of Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi cores Part of the Intel Modern Code Developer program, this Colfax training offers an intensive education on parallel programming for today’s modern Intel systems. Registration is free, but space is limited. As part …

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NIH to Put the DNA of 1 Million Human Volunteers Online

Intel Expands Cloud-HPC Effort to Make Precision Medicine Diagnoses in a Single Day  Will donated DNA help speed difficult diagnoses? A million donors say “Yes!” This article by Slashdot Media contributing editor John O’Donnell describes what NIH is doing with its $215 million program to do just that The National …

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French Companies Get Supercomputing Boost

1.4 petaflop supercomputer to support industrial research The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) will deploy a new supercomputer dubbed “Cobalt” in their Very Large Computing Centre. Slashdot Contributing Editor Wylie Wong discusses how Bull and Intel collaborated to create this new system. The French Alternative Energies And …

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French Companies Get Supercomputing Boost

1.4 petaflop supercomputer to support industrial research The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) will deploy a new supercomputer dubbed “Cobalt” in their Very Large Computing Centre. Slashdot Contributing Editor Wylie Wong discusses how Bull and Intel collaborated to create this new system. The French Alternative Energies And …

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Intel Opens New Computing Center for Earthquake

Researchers from many universities will utilize Xeon and Xeon Phi powered behemoth Simulating earthquakes to help predict them is one of the primary areas to be investigated by a team of over a thousand researchers, thanks to the new Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center …

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