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June 23, 2008
Team Led by Argonne Gets Best Paper Award
A team of researchers from 7 different research institutes, lead by Argonne National Laboratory, gets the best paper award. The team, lead by Pavan Balaji, together with Ewing Lusk, Rajeev Thakur, Ian Foster and Susan Coghlan from Argonne, received the best paper award at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'08) that took place on June 18 - 20...more info >
June 18, 2008
Argonne's Supercomputer Named World's Fastest for Open Science, Third Overall
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory's IBM Blue Gene/P high-performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the semiannual Top500 List of the world's fastest computers...more info >
June 18, 2008
ALCF's Blue Gene/L Retired
The IBM BG/L system housed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will be retired in July 2008. The system—with 1,024 dual-core nodes (2,048 processors) and 500 gigabytes of memory—has a peak performance of 5...more info >
June 18, 2008
The U.S. Embraces HealthGrid
Organized by Jonathan Silverstein, The University of Chicago hosted HealthGrid 2008 in early June at its downtown Gleacher Center, the first non-European venue for the conference. HealthGrid.US organized the meeting, signaling its readiness to collaborate fully with its European colleagues and begin the process of defining a roadmap.more info >
May 13, 2008
DOE's Office of Science to Award High Performance Computing Resources to Advance Scientific Research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today it is accepting proposals for a program to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers at four of DOE’s national laboratories...more info >
May 12, 2008
Rob Ross Receives Outstanding Young Alumni Award
Dr. Robert Ross has received an Outstanding Young Alumni Award for 2008 from Clemson University, South Carolina.The award, which was presented at the 13th annual Engineering and Science Banquet, recognizes his
significant career success and notable contributions to society...
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May 12, 2008
Argonne Technology Aids Largest Metagenome Study to Date
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory recently completed a study that compared more than 14 million microbial sequences from 90 metagenomes collected from nine different biomes or ecosystems. Unlike other metagenomic studies, this project analyzed samples that run the gamut from deep-sea samples to the bacterial communities inside the human gut.more info >
May 6, 2008
IEEE eScience 2008 Call for Participation
Organizing committees of the 4th International IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing eScience 2008 Conference are now accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits, and demos; and workshops and special sessions.more info >
May 1, 2008
Global Immersive Virtual Anatomy Classrooms
Held by The University of Chicago and broadcast using the AccessGrid the lesson used views of the Virtual Human data set to allow local colleagues to participate in the Anatomy Lecture given by Jonathan Silverstein M...more info >
May 1, 2008
Argonne Supercomputer to Simulate Extreme Physics of Exploding Stars
A team of scientists at the University of Chicago's Flash Center will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds.more info >
