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Supercomputing 2021

Each year, the Supercomputing conference provides the leading technical program for professionals and students in the HPC community, as measured by impact, at the highest academic and professional standards. The program is designed to share best practices in areas such as: algorithms; applications; architectures and networks; clouds and distributed computing; data analytics, visualization, and storage; […]

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Sailing again: UNC’s Topsail supercomputer comes out of retirement with a RENCI makeover

In its prime, the UNC supercomputer called Topsail had a peak performance of nearly 30 trillion calculations per second—more than enough to earn a spot on the biannual Top500 supercomputers list.

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RENCI People Interview with Jackie Kern

[youtube Rbx_FqPNwvI] Watch entire video or click on any question below: Q: You are Director of Technical Services for the computer science department at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. What career path brought you to where you are today? Q: Do you have mentors or people who have helped you along the way? Q: […]

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RENCI at SC09

Portland, OR—The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) will offer a look at leading edge technologies that enable research, decision making and collaboration in its exhibit at SC09, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.

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RENCI debuts at International Supercomputing Conference

TAMPA, FLA, November 1, 2006-Imagine if, in the midst of a hurricane, flood or severe storm, emergency response teams could interface with a high-resolution, near real-time computer model and determine what neighborhoods were likely to be affected, how far inland storm surges would reach, how water runoff and flooding might be impacted by development, and […]

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RENCI hits Top 500 list

CHAPEL HILL – The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) scored its first ranking on the Top 500 supercomputers list with Ocracoke, its new IBM Blue Gene/L system. Ocracoke, with 1,024 dual processor compute nodes, 1 gigabyte of memory per node and a peak performance of 5.7 teraflops, or trillions of calculations per second, was ranked 104th […]

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