NSF tests mini-supercomputer

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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) facilitate largescale identification of genomic variants that are associated with complex traits. However, susceptibility loci identified by GWAS so far generally account for a limited fraction of the genotypic variation in patient populations. Predictive models based on identified loci also have modest success in risk assessment and therefore are of limit...

Nsf Grant #0755995 Nsf Program Name: Nanomanufacturing

This technical paper reports progress on two fronts on the proposed research in the field of Nanoxerography. Aspect 1 reports on a new nanolens approach on the basis of charged resist structures to print nanoparticles with high resolution – a 3 fold size reduction has been observed between the structures and the assembled particles. Directed assembly was observed due to a naturally occurring in...

A Streaming Supercomputer

We are in an era where computational building blocks are plentiful and inexpensive. A single chip today can hold over 100 1GHz °oating-point units for a total performance of 100 GFLOPS/chip. Many graphics chips achieve 80GFLOPS and over 1TOP rendering performance, and cost less than $100. Embedded processors are less powerful, but incredibly cheap. It is fair to say that a raw GFLOPS costs less...

A Compiler-driven Supercomputer

The overall prrformance of supercomputers is slow compared to the speed of their underlying logic technology. This discrepancy is due to several bottlenecks: memories are slower than the CPU, conditional jumps limit the usefulness of pipelining and pre-fetching mechanisms, and functional-unit parallelism is limited by the speed of hardware scheduling. This paper describes a supercomputer archit...

IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer