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October 14, 2009
DOE to Explore Scientific Cloud Computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U...more info >
October 7, 2009
Argonne, Lawrence Livermore Helped Design Supercomputer Honored by President Obama
The IBM Blue Gene series of energy-efficient supercomputers, central to breakthrough scientific research around the world, will be singled out by President Barack Obama as a Medal of Technology and Innovation award-winner on October 7 in Washington, D...more info >
October 5, 2009
VBI awarded $27 Million from NIH to Support Infectious Disease Research
Rick Stevens to lead CI effort to make the RAST annotation services more broadly available as part of $27 NIH contract recently awarded to the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. RAST is a fully automated genomics tool that can greatly help in accelerating the identification of genes and assigning functions to those genes.more info >
September 23, 2009
Bio-Computing a Major Focus of 22nd Annual SC Conference
Jonathan Silverstein, professor of surgery and associate director of the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory: Grid Technology Transforming Healthcare. He will focus on how our healthcare system is being transformed by new HPC techniques that promote integration, interoperability and secured access to biomedical data on a national scale...more info >
September 18, 2009
President Obama Honors IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer with National Medal of Technology and Innovation
President Obama recognized IBM and its Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement...more info >
September 11, 2009
caBIG® in Action: Speeding research with data analysis workflows
Since its inception, the goal of caBIG® has been to reduce the burden of cancer by enabling the type of collaborative research that these workflows support. Ravi Madduri, a computer scientist at the University of Chicago and long time participant in the caBIG® program, has been working for the last two years with a team at the University of Manchester (UK) to develop a solution to this challenge-a user-friendly tool to create reusable analysis workflows.more info >
August 31, 2009
Argonne's New Center Really Computes: National Lab Gets Lots More Elbow Room for Scientists
In many ways, Argonne National Laboratory's new Theory and Computing Sciences building might remind you of your own office building: a first-floor coffee bar, neat rows of cubicles, conference rooms scattered throughout the floors...more info >
August 27, 2009
$30 Million Grant to Enhance World's Largest Open Computing Network
A $30 million National Science Foundation grant will enable the University of Chicago to expand and extend until 2011 the operation of TeraGrid, a national system of interconnected supercomputers devoted to leading-edge scientific discovery and science and technology education.more info >
August 12, 2009
Argonne, North Dakota Universities to Form Regional Research Partnership
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the University of North Dakota (UND) and North Dakota State University (NDSU) announced today that they are developing a regional partnership to explore complementary scientific research efforts...more info >
July 23, 2009
Foster reappointed Director of Computation Institute
Ian Foster has been reappointed Director of the Computation Institute for a three-year term with a mandate to continue building the University's thriving community of computational scientists.A joint project between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, the institute addresses the most challenging problems arising in the use of strategic computation and communications.
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