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March 22, 2007
Scientists Compute Death Throes of White Dwarf Star in 3D
In January, the Flash Center team for the first time naturally detonated a white dwarf in a more realistic three-dimensional simulation. The simulation confirmed what the team already suspected from previous tests: that the stars detonate in a supersonic process resembling diesel-engine combustion...more info >
March 9, 2007
Rick Stevens: Connecting Computing to Science
Perhaps the two most important technologies of the 21st century will be information technology and biotechnology. At Argonne National Laboratory, the Computing and Life Sciences (CLS) directorate is attempting to synergize these two technologies to fulfill the department's mission.more info >
February 22, 2007
Papka named deputy associate laboratory director for Computing and Life Sciences at Argonne
Mike Papka has been named deputy associate laboratory director for Computing and Life Sciences. Since joining Argonne in 1992, Mike has been actively involved in the development of collaboration technology and currently is co-director of the Futures Laboratory.more info >
January 8, 2007
Three MCS Researchers Receive the 2007 DOE INCITE Awards
Three MCS Division researchers -- Paul Fischer, Bill Gropp, and Rob Jacob -- have received DOE INCITE awards for 2007.more info >
November 3, 2006
New Computer Software Enables Rapid Response to Time-critical Emergencies
Argonne researchers demonstrated a new system, called SPRUCE (Special Priority and Urgent Computing Environment), at Supercomputing 2006 in November. The demonstration featured a hypothetical scenario in which immediate access was requested and granted tomore info >
November 1, 2006
Bill Gropp Named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Congratulations to Bill Gropp, who was recently named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. This is ACM's most prestigious member grade, recognizing the top 1 percent of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community...more info >
September 17, 2006
Outstanding Papers Selected at Euro PVM/MPI 2006 in Bonn, Germany
Bill Gropp and Rajeev Thakur, coauthors of two papers selected as outstanding papers at Euro PVM/MPI 2006 in Bonn, Germany (out of a total of 3 outstanding papers).more info >
September 16, 2006
Argonne's Ian Foster Wins Inaugural "Industry Leadership Award" from GridWorld
Ian Foster of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is one of the winners of the first GridWorld "Industry Leadership Awards," presented today at the annual GridWorld conference in Washington, D...more info >
September 1, 2006
Open Science Grid Receives Science Discovery from Advanced Compting (SciDAC) Funding for Department of Energy
The Open Science Grid brings together a unique ensemble of domain scientists, software developers and providers of computing resources who share a common goal: to stimulate new discoveries by providing scientists with effective and dependable access to a national distributed computational facility.more info >
Pavan Balaji Wins ISC'08 Winning Paper Award
Pavan's paper, Distributed I/O with ParaMEDIC: Experiences with a Worldwide Supercomputer, was one of two papers to win the best paper award at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'08) in Dresden, Germany...more info >
