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August 23, 2011
Modeling a Neural Network
Usually, Anne Warlaumont deals only with the rough computer counterpart to a brain — building “neural” networks that classify sounds from babies and emulate the way they learn to speak...more info >
August 23, 2011
Computation Institute Announces Role in NSF's XSEDE Project
The Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory announced this week that it will be participating as a partner organization in the recently announced Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project for advanced cyberinfrastructure and digital services, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).more info >
August 5, 2011
Globus Online Surpasses 1,000-User Milestone
The Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory announced this week that Globus Online, the service for secure, reliable data movement, signed up over 1000 users in its first six months of service...more info >
July 22, 2011
Argonne-UChicago computational epilepsy research project featured on WTTW
Argonne's Mark Hereld discussed his computation-based epilepsy research on the July 19 "Scientific Chicago" segment of WTTW’s program Chicago Tonight. The segment also profiled his collaborator Wim van Drongelen, professor of Pediatrics, Neurology and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Chicago...more info >
July 1, 2011
Argonne's MG-RAST metagenome analysis server passes 1-terabase milestone
MG-RAST, the metagenome analysis server developed and operated by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, has reached a new milestone: 1 terabase (1,012 basepairs) of metagenomic DNA analyzed by the server...more info >
June 24, 2011
Finding the Right Tools for Energy Research
The scope and diversity of materials problems, as well as the multidisciplinary nature of applied chemistry and physics research, have led to a large but fragmented set of computation and visualization and analysis tools...more info >
June 14, 2011
Message passing evolves to meet data-hungry applications
Computing’s rapid evolution demands equally fast changes in software. Users want programs that run on any machine, from a laptop to a massively parallel supercomputer. But they don’t want to have to be computer scientists to make it work...more info >
June 13, 2011
'Art of Science' winners chosen
Three images resulting from Argonne research have been selected as the best of the “Art of Science 2011” competition, earning cash prizes for the laboratory employees who submitted them...
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June 1, 2011
Researchers use the cloud to shed light on a longstanding mystery
The Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR) experiment, a collaboration consisting of approximately 550 researchers at 55 institutions, is exploring properties of the proton and also characterizing the quark-gluon plasma produced in collisions of heavier ions...more info >
May 25, 2011
Grid Pioneer Foster Named 2011 Kanai Award Winner
The University of Chicago's Ian T. Foster has been named winner of the 2011 IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his accomplishments in grid computing. The primary focus of Foster's research has been the acceleration of discovery in a networked world...more info >
