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In early 2013 Stampede will be available at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) with a peak performance of more than 2 petaflops from the base Intel Xeon processors and more than 7 petaflops from the Intel Xeon Phi co-processors. The compute nodes are more than 5,000 Dell PowerEdge “Zeus” servers, each of which contains [...]

Cornell University faculty, staff, and student researchers and guests from academe and industry are invited to a Wednesday, March 28th “Red Cloud Lunch ‘n Learn” seminar from 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm in room 655, Rhodes Hall. Cornell recently launched a new cloud computing service called Red Cloud that is optimally configured to meet the [...]

(FOR RELEASE: December 13, 2011)  ITHACA, N.Y. – Steve Tuecke, Deputy Director at The University of Chicago’s Computation Institute (CI) will present “Globus Online: Reliable, high-performance file transfer as a service” at a lunchtime seminar hosted by the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing on Thursday, January 12 in room 655 of Frank Rhodes Hall, [...]

  October 27, 2011  – The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) announced today the launch of Red Cloud, an on-demand research computing service available by subscription. Two Red Cloud services are available. The basic offering, called “Red Cloud,” is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that runs Eucalyptus, the open source cloud computing [...]

arXiv at 20: The Price for Success September 23, 2011 Physical Sciences Building, Room 120 Cornell University Library cordially invites you to a celebration of the twentieth anniversary of arXiv. Founded by Paul Ginsparg in August 1991, arXiv.org is internationally acknowledged as a pioneering and successful digital archive and open-access distribution service for research articles. [...]

The Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science is now available. http://www.morganclaypool.com/page/ForthcomingSynthesisLectures This series contains over 400 online lectures (50-100 pages each) on artificial intelligence, communication networks, electrical engineering, human-centered informatics, synthetic biology, and much more. These are ideally suited for course reserve and some are already in use that way. [...]

Welcome back! A lot has happened in the library during the past month to transition the space and services. Study Space The former library space will be available for open quiet study starting next Monday January 25, 2010. The space will be open most days M-Th 9am-10pm and F 9-5pm. A mixture of tables, carrels, [...]

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, Welcome back after the Thanksgiving holiday. We are zeroing in on the final weeks of the semester and the final weeks of the Physical Sciences Library facility. Many facets of the library transition are coming together and I wanted to update you on a few exciting developments for the spring [...]

The Physical Sciences Library transition team has started planning discussions for the transition of the library. The library staff will be posting regular updates to the departments by email and on the library News site (http://blogs.cornell.edu/astnews/).  On the website you will also find a new section on ebooks and a direct link to the Annex [...]

A transition team of faculty, students and staff has been formed to address issues related to the consolidation of the Physical Sciences Library and future library support for physical sciences research and teaching.  Janet McCue, Associate University Librarian, will be leading this effort. The team will be holding its first meeting this afternoon, and the [...]