Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: RENCI
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Renaissance Teams: Reifying the School at Athens
Listen to the dreamers; share their passion; imagine the future; and invest in their possibility.
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A Plain of Excellence: Dan’s New Adventure
I will be joining the University of Iowa as Vice President for Research and Economic Development and holder of Iowa’s inaugural University Computational Science and Bioinformatics Chair, with joint appointments in Computer Science, Electrical and Computing Engineering and Medicine. For details on this, see the University of Iowa announcement.
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eScience: 21st Century Science
Today, computing is the third pillar of scientific discovery, complementing and mutually enabling theory and experiment.
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HPC: Competitive Advantage
The lack of robust, turnkey tools from independent software vendors (ISVs) is a consequence of the HPC transition from supercomputers based on custom vector processors to large-scale parallelism based on commodity microprocessors. One can trace the rapid technology shift in the demographics of the Top 500 list. Why is this a problem? I’m glad you…
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RENCI Expansion and Innovation
I believe RENCI can provide the technological infrastructure and expertise that are vital for making breakthrough discoveries, at UNC Chapel Hill, in North Carolina and across the United States.