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.

October 8, 2008
"TBA"
SPEAKER: Mark Hereld, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
TIME: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
LOCATION: Research Institute, rm. 405
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October 10, 2008
"A Scalable View-Based Collective I/O Optimization for Large-Scale Parallel Applications"
SPEAKER: Francisco Javier Garcia Blas, Carlos III University of Madrid
TIME: 2:00 pm
LOCATION: Building 221 Conference Room A216
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October 22, 2008
"CCA: Cloud Computing and Its Applications"
TIME: all day event
LOCATION: Unversity of Chicago
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"Ian Foster: Big Computation, Bigger Knowledge"
Ian Foster will participate in the Chicago Humanities Festival on October 11th. His discussion will include 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 info]

"Collaborative Supercomputing--DOE partners with NOAA, Work to be Performed at the ALCF"
The Office of Science will make available more than 10 million hours of computing time for NOAA to develop and refine advanced climate change models. The work will be performed on the latest computing hardware at three DOE labs: Argonne, Oak Ridge, and NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley. [more info]

"Department of Energy to Provide Supercomputing Time to Run NOAA's Climate Change Models"
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science will make available more than 10 million hours of computing time for the U.S. Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to explore advanced climate change models at three of DOE’s national laboratories as part of a three-year memorandum of understanding on collaborative climate research signed today by the two agencies... [more info]

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