DOE – SC17 http://sc17.supercomputing.org The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:04:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 120047766 New SC17 Video: With HPC, Researchers Search for Elusive Proteins that Perform Gene Editing – Discoveries Could Drive Cures for Diseases, Agricultural Advances http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/11/09/nersc-discoveries-could-drive-cures-for-diseases-agricultural-advances/ Thu, 09 Nov 2017 17:58:53 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=6776 Biologists at UC Berkeley and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) – a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility – are using NERSC, the Office of Science’s primary supercomputing center, to identify a class of enzymes capable of editing out genes responsible for disease. This revolutionary work requires petaflops of computing power to sift […]

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]]> 6776 SC17 Volunteer Dustin Leverman Profile: A Unique Route to HPC Systems http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/04/20/sc17-volunteer-dustin-leverman-profile-unique-route-hpc-systems/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:32:23 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5295 When Dustin Leverman was growing up, he likely didn’t imagine that his interest in machines would someday turn into a career at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. But since childhood, he has been curious about how things work. “When I was little, my dad would give me something like a flashlight, and […]

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