Earlier this month, Swarthmore College joined the ranks of roughly 100 other institutions as part of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC). Originally formed in the 1990s as a small group of the heads of national supercomputing centers, CASC … Continue reading Swarthmore Joins CASC
Strelka, Swarthmore’s high-performance computing (HPC) system, is set for an exciting expansion next month. This upgrade is needed because faculty and students are increasingly using the system to conduct research, teach courses, and other uses, resulting in bottlenecks and resource … Continue reading Upcoming Strelka Expansion
Would you like to learn more about high-performance computing (HPC)? Are you curious how Swarthmore’s HPC ecosystem can complement your research, pedagogy, teaching, and learning? If so, please attend the HPC 101 session on Monday, September 18th, 12p-2p. Students, faculty, … Continue reading HPC 101 Event in September
The landscape of research software is certainly rich and varied, driven in part by improved sharing and dissemination platforms (such as GitHub), as well as by enhanced mandates to provide access to software and workflows arising from nearly any federal … Continue reading Managing Research Software Environments
In the early decades of modern computing – the 1960s and 1970s – only the largest corporations and governmental agencies had access to computers of any kind (think IBM, NASA, DoD, etc.). Computers were too large, too challenging to maintain, … Continue reading Democratizing Research through High-Performance Computing
When most people think about applications of high-performance computing (HPC), STEM-based research readily comes to mind. While HPC absolutely excels at that, it is also useful in pedagogical contexts, including: Facilitating analysis of datasets that are too large to work … Continue reading Embracing the Pedagogical Value of HPC
