Tag Archives: Research Computing

Lunch & Learn: Bottom-up social data collection with allourideas.org and Matthew Salganik

Posted on December 2, 2010 by John LeMasney

In this week’s Lunch ‘n Learn, Matthew Sal­ganik, an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor in Princeton’s Depart­ment of Soci­ol­ogy, pre­sented some recent research that has resulted in the cre­ation of an open-source polling site called AllOurIdeas.org
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Lunch & Learn: Computing at Princeton: Short observations and tall stories

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Jon Edwards

Few peo­ple know that Prince­ton University’s asso­ci­a­tion with com­put­ers and com­put­ing pre­dates the ENIAC. Jon goes back to the days of John von Neu­mann, Oswald Veblen, Alan Tur­ing, John Tukey, and winds his way for­ward through the mem­o­rable days of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: Optimizing fusion particle codes for massively parallel computers

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Jon Edwards

The last decade has wit­nessed a rapid emer­gence of larger and faster com­put­ing sys­tems in the US. Mas­sively par­al­lel machines have gone main­stream and are now the tool of choice for large sci­en­tific sim­u­la­tions. Keep­ing up with the con­tin­u­ously evolv­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: On the Formation of Massive Galaxies

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Jon Edwards

 All who lis­ten to Jerry Ostriker, Pro­fes­sor of Astro­phys­i­cal Sci­ences at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, come to know that we live in pro­foundly excit­ing times. We have learned only recently the age and com­po­si­tion of the uni­verse, and for the first time, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: High Performance Computing at Princeton — Spring 2010

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Jon Edwards

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity has cre­ated a cyber­in­fra­struc­ture, says Curt Hil­le­gas, the Direc­tor of Princeton’s TIGRESS High Per­for­mance Com­put­ing and Visu­al­iza­tion Cen­ter, itself a col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Prince­ton Insti­tute for Com­pu­ta­tional Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing (PIC­SciE). Devel­oped within the past decade, this cyber­in­fra­struc­ture … Con­tinue read­ing →

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