Computer scientist Doug Jennewein's working environment is, in more ways than one, a great frontier. Situated at the University of South Dakota (USD) on America's wind-swept plain, he is in a job that is allowing him to pursue his passion for science and technology, and be a pioneer in growing the use of computationally assisted research.

In this podcast, he discusses how the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) has enhanced his work as USD's research computing manager.

Link to XSEDE website: https://www.xsede.org
Link to the University of South Dakota website: http://www.usd.edu

Spurring Scientific Exploration on the Great Plains with XSEDE and HPC

Most of the podcasts presented here convey activities of the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), a project of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS). JICS was established by the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to advance scientific discovery and leading-edge engineering, and to further knowledge of computational modeling and simulation. JICS realizes its vision by taking full advantage of petascale-and-beyond computers housed at ORNL and by educating a new generation of scientists and engineers well versed in the application of computational modeling and simulation for solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems. JICS runs NICS, which had the distinction of deploying and managing the Kraken supercomputer. NICS is a leading academic supercomputing center and a major partner in the National Science Foundation's eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). In November 2012, JICS sited the Beacon system, which set a record for power efficiency and captured the number one position on the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient computers.

Spurring Scientific Exploration on the Great Plains with XSEDE and HPC

Tennessee Supercomputing