31-Ago-2015 | Frontpage, News
President Obama ordained a mega project for the creation of the most powerful computer in the world, for to regain the site the EE.UU. had lost at China’s Tianhe- 2. But the ultimate objective is strategic. “Who doesn’t compute, does not compete”. The...
25-Ago-2015 | Frontpage, News
The fourth version of the CMM’s Pucon Symposium «Advanced Tools Applied to Frontier Astronomy, BioMedicine and Massive Data-driven Sciences» will be held at the city of Puerto Varas, Chile, from august the 26th till the 28th and will count with the participation...
14-Ago-2015 | Frontpage, News
La Serena School for Data Science: Applied Tools for Astronomy Program dates for 2015: 15-22 August REGISTRATION OPEN FOR THE 2015 PROGRAM: APPLY NOW! The volume and complexity of astronomical data continues to grow as the current generation of surveys come online...
13-Ago-2015 | Frontpage, News
A new horizon Since 30 years the supercomputers have been perpetrating a curious rule. Every ten years have multiplied their speed by the thousand. Additionally, the new horizons (from megaflops to gigaflops, from gigaflops to teraflops and from there to petaflops)...
4-Ago-2015 | Frontpage, News
During the days 19, 20 and 21 october this year, the Cultural Center Gabriela Mistral will be the stage for three days of this spectacular encounter that will soak the city in science and knowledge. We talk about the III International Conference on Scientific...
2-Ago-2015 | Frontpage, News
This 2015 the National Laboratory for High Performance Computing (NLHPC) is five years old, and in its short life passed from having 9 to 17 associates across the country and installed Leftraru, the most powerful supercomputer in Chile, that reaches the 50 teraflops,...