Astronomers & physicists prepare for UNLV's new supercomputer

Several press articles have been written (see e.g., Review Journal, Tech Cocktail) describing UNLV's top-ranked new supercomputer, Cherry Creek, which is housed in Las Vegas' major data center company, Switch SUPERNAP.  Today several professors including Daniel Proga and Bernard Zygelman, as well as graduate students and postdocs who will be using Cherry Creek, attended a full day workshop at the Switch headquarters (hosted in cooperation with Intel with training provided by Colfax) to learn how to make optimal use out of Intel Xeon Phi processors.  Training included details on hardware design and parallel programming methodologies.