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High Performance Computing Body Creates Group For Music Research

By TechTaffy Desk

HPCMusicThe HPC Advisory Council, an organization for high-performance computing research, outreach and education, has formed the HPCmusic subgroup, an advanced research project that focuses on the usage of high performance computing to enable advancements in music production and creation.

The new subgroup is chaired by Antonis Karalis, who received the 2012 HPC advisory council university award for advanced research on the role of high performance computing in music.

HPCmusic joins the HPC Advisory Council’s subgroups – HPC Scale, HPC Cloud, HPC Works, HPC Storage, HPC GPU, HPC FSI.

[Image courtesy: Antonis Karalis/HPC Advisory Council]

 

 

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