This UC San Diego Professor Planned His Surgery In Virtual Reality – KPBS
UC San Diego's Larry Smarr is the kind of guy who wears a Fitbit, monitors his sleep and has had his DNA sequenced. But he takes the whole self-tracking thing farther than most. He has mapped his internal organs in three dimensions. He even has a 3-D printed model of part of his colon.
Teaching Computers to Recognize Unhealthy Guts – SDSC’s ‘Gordon’ Supercomputer Assists in New Microbiome Study
January 18, 2017 - A new proof-of-concept study by researchers from the University of California San Diego has succeeded in training computers to “learn” what a healthy versus an unhealthy gut microbiome looks like based on its genetic makeup.Larry Smarr: A U.S. Academic Supercomputing Program is Born
I had been using supercomputers since the early-mid 1970s but to do so I had to get a top secret nuclear clearance.
Larry Smarr Helps NCSA Celebrate 30th Anniversary – HPC Wire
On Friday, Larry Smarr, whose unsolicited 1983 proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) begat NCSA in 1985 and helped spur NSF to create not one but five national centers for supercomputing, gave a celebratory talk at NCSA.
China Wins New Bragging Rights in Supercomputers – New York Times
Supercomputers are viewed in scientific circles as an indicator of national technology leadership, and they are vital for research in areas ranging from the development of new weapons and medicines, to the design of cars and consumer products.