Enhancing Productivity ...
The basic mission of the MCS Division is increase scientific productivity in the 21st century by providing intellectual and technical leadership in the computing sciences -- computer science, applied computational mathematics, and computational science.

Through World-Class Science ...
Projects in the division range from algorithm development and software design in core areas such as optimization, to exploration of new technologies such as distributed (Grid) computing and bioinformatics, to numerical simulations in challenging areas such as climate modeling.

July 29, 2008
"Leap to Petascale! -- Your project on 40 racks of Blue Gene/P"
SPEAKER: ALCF and IBM Performance Engineers,
TIME: all day
LOCATION: Building 360, A-224
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August 12, 2008
"Open Source Workshop"
TIME: All day
LOCATION: Building 362 – Auditorium
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August 13, 2008
"tba"
SPEAKER: Oleg Roderick, Portland State University
TIME: 3pm
LOCATION: Building 221, Room A-261
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"Installation of Leading-Edge Data Analytics, Visualization"
The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the ALCF will soon have the data analytics and visualization capability to complement its distinction as the fastest computer in the world for open science and the third fastest overall computer in the world... [more info]

"Ten Research Proposals Awarded Grants Under New Chicago Energy Initiative"
The University has funded various awards to researchers at the Computation Institute and Argonne National Laboratory under the Chicago Energy Initiative, which President Zimmer launched earlier this year... [more info]

"Researchers Receive Awards for Work on Cancer Grid Infrastructure"
Ravi Madduri and Stuart Martin of Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science Division and Wei Tan of the University of Chicago/Argonne Computation Institute were honored recently for their work in the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG). [more info]

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