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November 30, 2011
Birth of the Universe, Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmological Reionization
In this video from SC11, Michael Norman (SDSC), Joseph Insley (ANL), and Rick Wagner (SDSC) describe a set of ground-breaking collaborative astrophysics simulations. Essentially, the visualizations depict the formation of the first galaxies, and what happened to the surrounding intergalactic gas when they lit up.more info >
November 29, 2011
Argonne's Barry Smith and Lois Curfman McInnes Win E.O. Lawrence Award
Argonne National Laboratory researchers Barry Smith and Lois Curfman McInnes have been named winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which honors midcareer scientists and engineers for exceptional contributions in research and development...more info >
November 17, 2011
Former Argonne Intern Wins SC11 Best Student Paper Award
Former Argonne intern Wesley Kendall has been named winner of the SC11 conference’s Best Student Paper Award. With an acceptance rate of 21 percent, SC11 is one of the most competitive technical conferences in high-performance computing...more info >
November 9, 2011
Earth Microbiome Project to catalogue world's microbes
100 trillion microbes live in each of our bodies. A billion trillion trillion exist in just the oceans. Adding in air, trees, plants, dirt and animals makes that number nearly unfathomable. An initiative called the Earth Microbiome Project, led by Jack Gilbert at the U...more info >
October 13, 2011
Cloud computing and Argonne program help decode German E. coli strain
When a nasty strain of E. coli flooded hospitals in Germany this summer, it struck its victims with life-threatening complications far more often than most strains—and the search for explanation began...more info >
September 26, 2011
Enabling parallel access to multiresolution scientific datasets
A popular format known as IDX is used to enable access to scientific datasets. IDX stores the data in a hierarchical order; the results can then be visualized interactively on systems ranging from desktops and laptop computers to portable devices such as iPhones...more info >
September 1, 2011
Marc Snir appointed director of Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Marc Snir, a prominent professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), today assumed his new position as director of Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division...more info >
September 1, 2011
Exploiting Complexity in Drug Research
The range of problems amenable to simulation with high-performance computers spans virtually all of healthcare. For example, George Karniadakis, a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University, Providence, R...more info >
August 31, 2011
New knowledgebase will enable energy and environmental innovations
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a multi-institutional effort composed of leading scientists from several institutions, including Argonne National Laboratory. The goal of this collaboration is to develop a Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), designed to accelerate our understanding of microbes, microbial communities and plants...more info >
August 23, 2011
Chicago Ideas Week Makes a Stop at Argonne
October 10-16, 2011, Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) will bring the world’s top speakers together with Chicago’s best thinkers to create an ecosystem of innovation, exploration, and intellectual recreation...more info >
