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HHPC and T-REX in the News

May 9, 2008 | By Brett Bobley

In the May 8th edition of HPCwire [1], John West wrote a piece called “High Performance Humanities” [2] that discusses the NEH’s new HHPC initiative [3].  It was great to see coverage of the new initiative in a leading HPC publication.  One of our stated goals here in the Office of Digital Humanities [4] is to inspire collaborations across disciplines.  My hope is that the computing specialists who are regular readers of HPCwire will take an interest in the many computing challenges we have here in the humanities.  In a similar vein, I also note that the Text Analysis Developers Alliance [5] has just announced a new competition called T-REX [6] that hopes to inspire text analysis projects, including those that take advantage of high performance computing.  Over the next few years it will be interesting to see what HPC can bring to humanities research.

Keywords:
  • HHPC [7]
  • high performance computing [8]

Source URL: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/grant-news/hhpc-and-t-rex-in-the-news

Links:
[1] http://www.hpcwire.com/
[2] http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/systems/High_Performance_Humanities.html
[3] http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh/resource-library/humanities-high-performance-computing-resource
[4] http://www.neh.gov/odh/
[5] http://tada.mcmaster.ca/
[6] http://tada.mcmaster.ca/trex/
[7] http://www.neh.gov/tags/hhpc
[8] http://www.neh.gov/tags/high-performance-computing