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No one can precisely predict when an earthquake is to happen. Since the 1994 6.7-magnitude Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles County that caused 72 deaths, 9,000 injuries and $25 billion in damages, Southern California has been anxiously waiting for "The Big One": a devastating quake predicted to be at least a 7.8 magnitude and 44 times stronger. Seismologists can only say that it may happen within the next 30 years.

In the 1970s, Jack Dongarra created code and concepts that allowed software to work easily with the world’s most powerful computing machines.

Date Time Priceless Astronomy Data Saved After Collapse of Arecibo Telescope AUSTIN, Texas – When Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo telescope collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost access to one of the world’s most treasured pieces of equipment – but also, potentially, decades of priceless data holding still undiscovered secrets about the universe. Now, thanks to a data rescue plan led by the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin, Arecibo’s observations will be preserved for generations of future astronomers. Millions of people have seen footage of the collapse...

 E-Mail IMAGE: TACC's Ranch supercomputer, a long-term data mass storage system, is safely preserving over three petabytes of data from the Arecibo radio telescope. Ranch is an allocated resource of the Extreme... view more  Credit: TACC Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope's collapse in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibo's data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the 'golden copy' of the telescope's data -- the original tapes, hard drives, and disk drives of sky scans since the 1960s. Now, ...