News & Announcements Archives
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September 11, 2008
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 >
September 8, 2008
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 >
September 5, 2008
Call for Participation: MidWest Grid School (MWGS'08)
Please join us for a 3-day hands-on course in large-scale and high-performance grid computing on Sept. 17-19, 2008, at University of Chicago, Chicago IL.Learn about grid and high throughput computing through an intensive OSG course introducing techniques for science and engineering in the use of large-scale grid computing resources...
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August 29, 2008
Open House at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
More than 350 employees attended the August 14th Open House at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). After an overview presentation by Pete Beckman, division director, and Paul Messina, director of science, guests toured the Interim Supercomputing Support Facility, home to the ALCF's Blue Gene/P...more info >
August 5, 2008
Computation Institute to Bulk Up Data Analysis Capability with $1.5 Million Grant
The Computation Institute, a joint effort of the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has received a grant for a computer system that will enable researchers to store, access and analyze massive datasets...more info >
July 17, 2008
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 >
July 17, 2008
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 >
July 17, 2008
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 >
July 17, 2008
Eckhardt's $20 million gift an investment in future of science
A major program to build new fields of scientific expertise and expand existing efforts at the University has inspired a $20 million donation to benefit the Physical Sciences Division from Chicago futures trader and alumnus William Eckhardt (S...more info >
June 30, 2008
New TCS Building to Foster Cutting-Edge Research
The Theory and Computing Sciences (TCS) Building now under construction at Argonne. TCS is expected to be occupied in the summer of 2009.more info >
