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Chicago Humanities Festival
"Ian Foster: Big Computation, Bigger Knowledge"

DATE: October 11, 2008
TIME: 11:00 - 12:00 pm
SPEAKER: Ian Foster, Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory; professor at the University of Chicago
LOCATION: Ida Noyes Hall, Theatre, 3rd Floor 1212 E. 59th St, University of Chicago

Description:
Single computers with 100,000 processors, research teams that span the globe, online access to more data than is contained in the Library of Congress. Such developments are transforming how knowledge is generated and used. Foster, with the Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory and professor at the University of Chicago, illustrates the implications of these trends with descriptions and demonstrations of relevant projects at the University and Argonne, including the world’s fastest supercomputer for open science; grid computing for worldwide resource federation and collaboration; and massive data sets from political science, astrophysics, and neuroscience.

More Information:
Presented in partnership with the University of Chicago and as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Programs for the University of Chicago
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