Supercomputer Rises to 7th Nationally
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This fall, USC’s new supercomputer cluster clocked in at 44.19 teraflops, or 44.19 trillion floating-point calculations per second, on its 768-node, 10-gigabit backbone cluster, placing it seventh in the nation among academic supercomputers and 61st in the world among all supercomputers.
Just six months ago, USC’s supercomputer achieved a benchmark of 30.99 teraflops, earning a rank of ninth among academic supercomputers in the U.S. and 63rd among all supercomputers in the world.
“USC’s HPCC has achieved its current status among the world’s top supercomputer sites through moderate local investments and without national funding,” said Priya Vashishta, faculty executive director of High-Performance Computing and Communications. “USC’s approach to granting access to its supercomputing resources is one of the best in the nation: HPCC allows USC faculty and graduate students unfettered access to a world-class facility.”
Vashista is a professor of chemical engineering, materials science and computer science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and a professor of physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at USC College.
“Our resources enable researchers to move beyond the limitations of traditional research to produce new understandings of problems and meaningful results that have far-reaching impact on science and advanced technology,” Vashishta said.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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