News & Announcements Archives
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February 10, 2010
Bringing LHC data to US Tier-3s
The Open Science Grid is aiding physicists at over 40 Tier-3 centers nationwide to get set up on a grid to get access to data from the Large Hadron Collider. The new US Tier-3 centers – evenly split between the ATLAS and the Compact Muon Solenoid experiments – have each received about $30,000 in funding as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...more info >
February 1, 2010
ALCF Early Science Program to Award Cycles on Next-Generation IBM Blue Gene
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is now accepting proposals for time allocations on its next-generation, 10 petaflop IBM Blue Gene system. Allocations through the Early Science Program (ESP) are for preproduction hours (between system installation and full production) beginning in early 2012...more info >
January 27, 2010
Using supercomputers to explore nuclear energy
A new computer code, called UNIC, is enabling Argonne researchers to simulate the distribution of neutrons within a nuclear reactor core in unprecedented detail. Modeling the complex geometry of a reactor core requires billions of spatial elements, hundreds of angles and thousands of energy groups—all of which lead to problem sizes with quadrillions of possible solutions...more info >
January 14, 2010
Argonne researcher named SIAM Vice President for Programs
Sven Leyffer, a computational mathematician in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, has been named Vice President for Programs for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)...more info >
January 4, 2010
Argonne Streaming Visualization Sends Images Across the World
Modeling the evolution of the universe is no mean feat, not only because of the complex mathematics involved, but also because of the sheer amount of data that is generated from a working model of-well, the universe...more info >
January 1, 2010
At Argonne Lab, a Shift from Radioactivity to Supercomputers
Argonne National Laboratory, the nuclear research facility in the Chicago suburbs that midwifed the atomic bomb, is ending its use of highly radioactive materials - much to the relief of its neighbors - in favor of supercomputers that will allow it to pursue a broader palate of scientific research.more info >
December 10, 2009
Metagenome Analysis Service Exceeds 100GB
Argonne's Metagenomics Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology server, or MG-RAST, has processed more than 100 gigabytes (or 100 gigabases) of samples, making MG-RAST the primary data repository and analysis resource for the metagenomics community...more info >
December 1, 2009
Argonne's Ian Foster named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Ian Foster has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The fellowship program, established in 1993, honors ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM...more info >
November 23, 2009
Supercomputing for the Masses
With $32 million from the Energy Department, Argonne has set to work on Magellan, a project to explore the creation of a cloud-computing infrastructure that scientists around the globe can use. Mr. Beckman argued that such a system would reduce the need for smaller universities and labs to spend money on their own computing infrastructure...more info >
November 20, 2009
StarGate Demo at SC09 Shows How to Keep Astrophysics Data Out of Archival
As both an astrophysicist and director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Mike Norman understands two common perspectives on archiving massive scientific datasets. During a live demonstration at the SC09 conference of streaming data simulating cosmic structures of the early universe, Norman said that some center directors view their data archives as "black holes," where a wealth of data accumulates and needs to be protected...more info >
