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January 16, 2012

New Video at Frontier Scientists Spotlights Supercomputing

AIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 16 -- If you know what a FLOP is, you can stop reading now. But if you don’t, take note and watch “What’s a FLOP?” at FrontierScientists.com. It will be your primer to the next step in computational science.

In a new series of videos produced for FrontierScientists.com, Greg Newby, director of the Arctic Region Super Computing Center and Per Nyberg, from Cray Inc., speak revealingly about how computational science uses an important tool, a supercomputer.

“Computational Science is a primary means of discovery in the world today," says Newby. “It’s a way of making our manufacturing processes more efficient, of better understanding the world we live in and of doing all types of data analysis for all types of purposes.”

Since its April 2011 web launch, FrontierScientists.com continues to share first person accounts and real time insights from a range of scientists, including leading archaeologists, grizzly bear biologists, volcano researchers, climate change specialists and others.

Fascinating footage of current scientific discoveries in some of the Arctic’s most remote and dramatic landscapes are chronicled in short vodcasts, Twitter feeds, blogs and web reports. The research resides in categories:

Grizzlies
Petroglyphs
Paleo Eskimo
Cook Inlet Volcanoes
Alutiiq Weavers
Climate Change Watch
Arctic Winter Cruise 2011
Raven Bluff
Computational Science

“We want to let travelers, teachers, students, aspiring scientists, and anyone else interested in science feel as if they are with the scientist as they track a grizzly or take the temperature of permafrost in a borehole,” explains Liz O’Connell, video director for Frontier Scientists. “Visitors to Frontier Scientists can ask their own questions to our scientists directly, follow some of them on Twitter and Facebook, and converse on their blogs.”

View the videos at www.frontierscientists.com.

Frontier Scientists is funded by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the National Park Service and 360 Degrees North.

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Source: Frontier Scientists

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