supercomputing

This month marks the activation of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva.  As one of the major enabling technologies for managing the large amount of data generated by the LHC, Grid Computing has also returned as a topic of interest. In her introduction to the last HASTAC Scholar Forum Ana Boa-Ventura discussed the role of humanists in High Performance Computing (HPC).

The Global Middle Ages Project (GMAP) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary initiative to show what a broader view of the Middle Ages through deep time looks like. It grew out of a course designed by Geraldine Heng at the University of Texas at Austin, which you can read about here. Some of the goals of the course read:

Early cartography was impacted by scientific revolution and enlightenment but also driven by hegemonic forces: our ancestors needed "to know where the 'loot' was and then get back home with it safe and sound" (quoting Dr. Shaowen Wang).

Wednesday afternoon was going to be very art-driven... I knew this from the program and was looking forward to it!

On Wednesday morning Michael Meredith didn’t stay as long as usual at the group's breakfast table. He wanted to get ready for his demo of Virtual Vellum, starting at 9AM sharp.

Michael is just a really great communicator. I wish that more CS folks were like him...:) Even in something as serious as Illuminated manuscripts he finds a way to make things fun such as by callin the "Manuscripts Torture Chamber" to the room where they carefully manipulate the manuscripts - most (all?) from France and Belgium.

Peter Bajcsy talked about important trends in the Humanities in the Context of Decision Processes... Questions like “is sampling an appropriate appraisal tool?” were core to his presentation.

July 29 2008 at NCSA was just too big to fit in one single post - Part I here where I blog Meredith's, Lundberg's and Pitard's presentations on Illuminated Manuscripts, the Inscriptifact project and an undergoing project at the Spurlock Museum involing seals and true artistry of ca. 2.500 BC!

As promised, here is the first of a series of posts blogging ICHASS 2008 at UIUC - one per week day.

Last week, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications hosted an excellent one week meeting on