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SC21 TV Video Interview with SC21 Keynote Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and one of the fathers of the internet, says HPC is rapidly changing research in science, the humanities and beyond. Watch this preview of the topics he’ll discuss during the SC21 Keynote. Vint Cerf will deliver his address, “Computing and the Humanities,” on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, at …
There’s No Such Thing as ‘Live Data’
Thanks to the digitization of millions of documents including newspapers, books, and handwritten sources, Melissa Terras and the team at the Centre for Data, Culture and Society (CDCS) at the University of Edinburgh are bringing context to large-scale data processing and HPC. “Humanities looks at history to better understand the current issues facing our society,” …
To Be or Not to Be—SC21 Keynote Speaker and “Father of the Internet” Unlocks the Power of HPC and Computational Humanities
In the supercomputing world, we are all familiar with the transformative impact of computational science to simulate physical and biological processes that help us address various phenomena. But the use of the massive compute power of high performance computing (HPC) goes beyond science, paving the way for discoveries across other disciplines. Vint Cerf, one of …
SC21 TV: Science & Beyond in Great Britain
HPC and digital humanities researchers in the UK are exploring everything from musical instruments and poetry to an 800-year-old essay that foreshadows current research about the Big Bang. Claire Warick, Mariann Hardey, and Giles Gasper from Durham University and Vincent Hughes from the University of York are featured in this episode of SC21 TV. A …
Using Modern HPC to Engineer a Medieval Universe
In the early 13th century Robert Grosseteste composed De luce, his treatise on light, a work which arguably holds the spark of an idea that would, 796 years later, turn into the Big Bang Theory. Using techniques that were revolutionary for his time, Robert Grosseteste pulled together research to describe what he believed to be …
Kicking Off SC21 TV with an Interview on Inclusivity, the Humanities, and HPC
SC21 is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion as discussed in our first SC21 TV interview with Cristin Merritt, a program manager for Alces Flight Lt. at Oxford in Great Britain. She also highlights how HPC and the humanities in the UK are making literature, music, and design more accessible. Merritt is volunteering as Inclusivity …
From Digital Humanities to Music – HPC Finds Its Footing in Wide-Ranging Disciplines
The Scope and Impact of Supercomputing Seemingly Has No Boundaries One is in the field of digital humanities, an emerging area of study that amplifies and extends humanities research through the use of such advanced information technologies as technology, media and computational methods. An academic who is striving to elevate the use of HPC within …
Robot Burns: Using HPC to Create Modern-Day Poems Inspired by 18th Century Master
Two hundred and twenty five years after his death, famed Scottish poet Robert Burns continues to create masterpieces. Well, sort of. The new verses — penned in the style of the author of the acclaimed ‘Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect’ collection of poems and lyricist to “Auld Lang Syne” and other tunes — are actually …