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October 2, 2012
Argonne researchers play major role in optimization symposium in Berlin
Researchers from Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division played a major role in the 2012 International Symposium on Mathematical Programming. The symposium, which takes place every three years on behalf of the Mathematical Optimization Society, is the world congress of mathematical optimization...more info >
September 25, 2012
Shedding Light on Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Cosmology is currently in one of its most scientifically exciting phases. Two decades of surveying the sky have culminated in the celebrated Cosmological Standard Model. Yet, two of the model’s key pillars, dark matter and dark energy—together accounting for 95% of the mass-energy of the universe—remain mysterious...more info >
September 10, 2012
The Magellan Project: Building High-Performance Clouds
Motivated by the success of the Magellan cloud computing evaluation project, Argonne has been transitioning the system from a testbed into a production-grade system and training more researchers in how to best exploit its capabilities...more info >
August 24, 2012
Helping applications utilize the high concurrency of multi-petaflop systems
Efficiently utilizing the rapidly increasing concurrency of multi-petaflop computing systems is a significant challenge. To address this challenge, researchers in Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science Division and the University of Chicago's Computer Science Department have developed Turbine, a highly scalable and distributed software engine for managing the execution of large numbers of computational tasks...more info >
August 24, 2012
Ian Foster appointed to third term as director of Computation Institute
Ian Foster will serve a third term as director of the Computation Institute, continuing his mission to advance the study and application of computation across the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, University officials announced...more info >
July 18, 2012
Marc Snir named Argonne Distinguished Fellow
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has named scientists Khalil Amine, Larry Johnson, Ernst Rehm, Marc Snir and Brian Stephenson as Distinguished Fellows, the laboratory’s highest scientific and engineering rank...more info >
July 17, 2012
Determining optimal design and operation of mixed-device energy systems
Researchers in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines, have developed an optimization model that makes it easy to design and operate local power generation systems at minimal environmental and economic cost.more info >
July 16, 2012
Argonne's MG-RAST achieves new record in metagenomic analysis
MG-RAST, the metagenome analysis server developed and operated by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, has achieved a new record—analysis of more than 50,000 metagenomic data sets...more info >
July 2, 2012
New coarsening schemes improve quality in graph partitioning problems
Ilya Safro, an Argonne Scholar in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, and two colleagues from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have formulated new coarsening schemes for multilevel graph partitioning...more info >
June 21, 2012
Exascale Computing: The View from Argonne
To get a lab-centric view of the path to exascale, HPCwire asked a three of the top directors at Argonne National Laboratory -- Rick Stevens, Michael Papka, and Marc Snir -- to provide some context for the challenges and benefits of developing these extreme scale systems...more info >
