The Lab has joined forces with two other national labs to deliver next generation supercomputers able to perform up to 200 peak petaflops (quadrillions of floating point operations per second), about 10 times faster than today’s most powerful high performance computing (HPC) systems. The Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Livermore (CORAL) national labs will produce systems in the 2017-2018 timeframe to support the research missions at their respective institutions. At LLNL, the system will serve NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program in support of stockpile stewardship. To read further, please visit https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2014/Feb/ATL_22614_computers.html#.UxJH_142SnA.

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. announced that company management will present at two investor conferences next month.

Brian Henry, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Paul Hiemstra, Treasurer and Investor Relations, will present at the Morgan Stanley Media & Telecom Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Calif. The Cray presentation will be held on Tuesday, March 4, at 2:05 p.m. PST (5:05 p.m. EST). The Cray presentation at the Morgan Stanley conference will be available to the public via live audio webcast. To listen to the webcast, go to the Investors section of the Cray website at http://investors.cray.com. An archived version of the webcast will be available on the Cray website for 90 days. To read further, please visit http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cray-to-present-at-two-investor-conferences-in-march-2014-02-25.

President Barack Obama announced two new manufacturing innovation institutes led by the Defense Department and supported by a $140 million federal commitment combined with more than $320 million in private-sector commitments. A consortium of businesses and universities headquartered in the Detroit area will a focus on lightweight and modern metals manufacturing, and a Chicago-headquartered consortium of businesses and universities will concentrate on digital manufacturing and design technologies. To read further, please visit http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121722.

HPC has always been the go-to field for solving large-scale scientific and engineering problems. However, running applications on HPC systems requires significant technical know-how of the underlying systems software to effectively run applications. To address the tedium of setting up HPC environments, HPC as a Service (HPCaaS) has recently been proposed to move HPC into the cloud. Borrowing from the success of Software as a Service (SaaS), HPCaaS purports to do the same — simplifying and commoditizing HPC to the masses via an automated cloud delivery system. The emphasis is making the process of scheduling jobs on HPC resources as transparent as possible. A user need not know how many processors to use but that a job gets executed with a specified amount of parallelism. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/02/19/scheduling-hpc-service/.

May 20 – May 22, 2014 - Barcelona Spain

PRACEdays14 will be held in Barcelona at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) from 20 to 22 May 2014. The program includes keynotes, parallel and poster sessions and a meeting of the PRACE User Forum. The PRACE Scientific and Industrial Awards and a Best Poster prize will be presented. For more information, please visit http://www.prace-project.eu/pracedays14

Sneha Jayaprakash, a sophomore at UC San Diego, is passionate about two things: computer science and social change. As part of the 2013 Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change contest, she developed a winning proposal for a mobile app to engage students with volunteerism and social issues—and received a prize of $2,500 to get the project going. Now, with an additional $10,000 awarded by the Microsoft Imagine Fund last month, Jayaprakash is getting the opportunity to turn her idea into a successful startup. Named Bystanders to Upstanders (B2U), Jayaprakash’s app presents simple, service-related challenges for users to complete in order to earn rewards. The challenges are personalized to the interests and skills of the participant. In addition, users can compete with their friends and use their earned points to make real donations to a variety of nonprofits. To read further, please visit http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/coding_for_a_cause?utm_campaign=thisweek&utm_medium=email&utm_source=tw-2014-03-06..

Harvard Crimson

Harvard University's Women in Computer Science group this year launched the WECode conference, which took place Feb. 8-9. Women from 40 colleges and universities were in attendance, according to WECode chief organizer JN Fang. Fang was inspired to organize a coding conference for women after reading "Lean In," a book by Facebook chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl K. Sandberg that encourages women to pursue their ambitions in spite of the challenges facing them. "It frustrated me that there had to be a book...there had to be this prominent COO to speak in order for this to be a public issue that people would talk about," Fang says. Although representatives from several private-sector companies were in attendance at the conference, recruitment was not the primary purpose of the conference. "This was created for one purpose, and that is to create community," Fang says. To read further, please visit http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/2/9/women-in-computer-science/#.

Are you a Computer Science major interested in an exciting internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory? Are you an Engineering student with great Computer Science skills? Do you have a GPA of 3.0 or above? If you answered "YES", JPL would like you to apply for an internship.

When: There is no deadline but the earlier you apply, the sooner you can be evaluated and selected.

How: Send your application to http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

What to Include: --Current Resume --Unofficial Transcript

Note: Specific projects will be determined based on qualifications and experience.  Questions: Send questions via email to education@jpl.nasa.gov.

2014 IBM Research and Development Opportunities

IBM seeks underrepresented African Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Native American men and women students in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Material Science, and Chemistry. More specifically, IBM seeks:

·         PhD students completing their education by Spring 2014 and looking for full-time Research or Development opportunities,  

·         Continuing Ph.D. students in the Fall of 2014 seeking summer 2014 IBM Research or Development opportunities,

·         MS and BS students completing their education by Spring 2014 and looking for full-time Development opportunities, and

·         Continuing MS and BS students in the Fall of 2014 seeking summer 2014 IBM Development opportunities.

For additional information, please visit: http://www.research.ibm.com or http://www-03.ibm.com/employment.  All students are considered for IBM opportunities, but this is an outreach for an underrepresented group in the STEM fields.

President Barack Obama announced two new manufacturing innovation institutes led by the Defense Department and supported by a $140 million federal commitment combined with more than $320 million in private-sector commitments. A consortium of businesses and universities headquartered in the Detroit area will a focus on lightweight and modern metals manufacturing, and a Chicago-headquartered consortium of businesses and universities will concentrate on digital manufacturing and design technologies. To read further, please visit http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121722.

HPC has always been the go-to field for solving large-scale scientific and engineering problems. However, running applications on HPC systems requires significant technical know-how of the underlying systems software to effectively run applications. To address the tedium of setting up HPC environments, HPC as a Service (HPCaaS) has recently been proposed to move HPC into the cloud. Borrowing from the success of Software as a Service (SaaS), HPCaaS purports to do the same — simplifying and commoditizing HPC to the masses via an automated cloud delivery system. The emphasis is making the process of scheduling jobs on HPC resources as transparent as possible. A user need not know how many processors to use but that a job gets executed with a specified amount of parallelism. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/02/19/scheduling-hpc-service/.