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March 27, 2013

"Argonne Researchers Awarded Supercomputing Time on Blue Waters"

Four researchers at Argonne have been awarded computing time on the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Argonne researchers will use the computer time to develop new tools and technologies in the computing sciences, biosciences, and physical sciences.

The Blue Waters system—one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers—offers sustained performance of 1 petaflop.

The Argonne researchers will use the computer time to develop new tools and technologies in the computing sciences, biosciences, and physical sciences.

• Michael Wilde, a software architect with a joint appointment in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division and the University of Chicago, will investigate implicitly parallel functional dataflow for productive hybrid programming on Blue Waters.
• Fausto Cattaneo, who holds a joint appointment with the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and the University of Chicago, will study rotational turbulence in magnetized cylindrical Couette flow.
• Benoit Roux, a computational biologist with a joint appointment in Argonne’s Biosciences Division and the University of Chicago, will explore the mechanism of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum ATP-driven calcium pump.
• David Dixon, who works in Argonne’s Physical Sciences and Engineering directorate, will study the development of new parameters for SEMO methods for transition metals and thorium.

The four Argonne researchers were among only 10 researchers who received these awards from the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation. The Consortium is a collaboration among national research laboratories and educational institutions with the aim of encouraging the use of petascale computing for solving our nation’s most challenging problems in science and engineering. 

For more information, see http://www.greatlakesconsortium.org/news/