High Performance Computing in the Arts and Humanities

by John Bonnett, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Kyle Kuchmey

Articles

Arms, William Y., A. Selcuk, P. Dmitriev, B. Kot, R. Mitchell, & L. Walle. "A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive." D-Lib Magazine.  Vol. 12 No. 2, February 2006. 26 May 2008 <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february06/arms/02arms.html >.

Bonnett, John.  "High-Performance Computing: An Agenda for the Social Sciences and the Humanities in Canada" Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 2006.  10 Jun. 2008
<http://sshrc.ca/web/about/publications/computing_final_e.pdf>.

Braun, D., X.C. Song and L.L. Arns. "Life Beyond the Browser: The TeraDRE" in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments/Supercomputing 2007, Reno, NV, November 10-11, 2007. 10 Jun. 2008 <http://teradre.rcac.purdue.edu/pdfs/GCE07_teradre.pdf>.

Crane, Gregory. "What Do You Do with a Million Books?." D-Lib Magazine. Vol. 12, No. 3. March 2006. 10 Jun. 2008 <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/crane/03crane.html>.

Fischman, Josh. "A Supercomputer Takes Humanities Scholars Into the 21st Century." The Chronicle of Higher Education. April 22, 2008. 26 May 2008 <http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2580n.htm>.

Gooding, S.L., Arns, L., Smith, P., Tillotson, J. "Implementation of a Distributed Rendering Environment for the TeraGrid." CLADE 2006. Paris, France. 2006. 10 Jun. 2008
<http://www.envision.purdue.edu/pdfs/papers/gooding-TeraDRE-revised.pdf>.

Madhavan, K., Bertoline, G., Arns, L. "A Distributed Rendering Environment to Support Classroom Instruction in Animation and Scientific Visualization." IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol 25, no 5, pp. 32-38, Sept/Oct 2005. 2006. 10 Jun. 2008 <http://www.envision.purdue.edu/pdfs/papers/g5032.pdf >.

Schroeder, Ralph & J. Fry. "Social Science Approaches to e-Science: Framing an Agenda." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12 (2) January 2007, 563–582. 26 May 2008 <http://dx.doi.org.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00338.x>---Requires login.

West, John E. "High Performance Humanities." HPCWire. May 9, 2008.  26 May 2008 <http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/systems/High_Performance_Humanities.html>.

Auxiliary Resources

I-CHASS
http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/I-CHASS/Index.html

SEASR
http://seasr.org/

NEH Humanities High Performance Computing Resource Page
http://www.neh.gov/ODH/ResourceLibrary/HumanitiesHighPerformanceComputing/tabid/62/Default.aspx

ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure
http://www.acls.org/programs/Default.aspx?id=644

Internet2
http://www.internet2.edu/

RENCI - Renaissance Computing Institute
http://www.renci.org

SC08 - HPC Conference
http://sc08.supercomputing.org/

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