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March 28, 2011
Universities/DOE National Labs join forces to understand the nucleus of an atom
Around 50 researchers — theoretical physicists, computer scientists, and applied mathematicians — from nine U.S. universities, seven national laboratories, and research institutes across Europe and Japan, have come together in an effort to develop a more complete description of the atomic nucleus and its interactions...more info >
March 24, 2011
Argonne Talks Exascale - and Mira
Recently, Argonne has been in the news with "Mira" -- the anticipated 10-petaFLOPS IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer expected to go online in 2012. To get a better understanding of what Mira is all about, and what it means for exascale computing, we interviewed Mike Papka, the Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory, Acting Division Director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, and Senior Fellow in the Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago Computation Institute.more info >
March 16, 2011
Ian Foster to receive IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award
Ian Foster, director of the Computation Institute, a joint initiative between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, has been named the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s 2011 Tsutomu Kanai Award, which recognizes major contributions to state-of-the-art distributed computing systems and their applications...more info >
February 28, 2011
New mesh software released
Many scientific applications are modeled by partial differential equations. One of the most widely used approaches for solving such equations numerically is to decompose the problem domain into a discretized representation referred to as a “mesh...more info >
February 25, 2011
2011 CI Speaker Series: Computation Knowledge Synthesis
A 2011 Computation Institute Speaker Series that highlights advances in the use of computation to reason over human knowledge and generate path-breaking insights, hypotheses and conclusions.more info >
February 21, 2011
DOE Research Group Makes Case for Exascale
Exascale computing promises incredible science breakthroughs, but it won't come easily, and it won't come free. That's the premise of a feature story from the DOE's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, whose mission it is "to discover, develop, and deploy the computational and networking tools that enable researchers in the scientific disciplines to analyze, model, simulate, and predict complex phenomena important to the Department of Energy...more info >
January 25, 2011
Lessons from the Grid: An Interview with Argonne's Kate Keahey
As one of the world’s notable researchers working to make clouds more suitable for the complex needs of scientific users, Kate Keahey contends that while there are opportunities in the cloud, there are also hurdles that remain...more info >
January 21, 2011
Sharpening up legacy codes
A team from Argonne National Laboratory in the USA is developing a modern set of exascale computing simulation tools for the design and study of liquid-metal-cooled fast reactors. The simulation-based high-efficiency advanced reactor prototyping (SHARP) project at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is a multidivisional, collaborative effort to develop a modern set of design and analysis tools for liquid-metal-cooled fast reactors...more info >
January 19, 2011
High-energy physics: Down the petabyte highway
For scientists, collisions at the world's most powerful particle collider are just the start. Nature follows the torrent of data on its circuitous journey around the world.more info >
December 26, 2010
Why America Needs a 21st Century Power Grid
Director Eric Isaacs's article for the Huffington Post on the need to upgrade our nation's power grid. Isaacs discusses why we need to make the investment in revamping and redesigning our power grid infrastructure for long-distance transmission of renewable electricity...more info >
