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September 25, 2009
Processor.com
"Tracking Green IT"
Pete Beckman says that by using temperature and power monitors on its platforms, Argonne has done studies showing which computing jobs require more power. It found there are certain supercomputer applications that use their operations extensively and have considerably more power draw. | read more>
August 31, 2009
Chicago Sun-TImes
"Argonne's New Center Really Computes: National Lab Gets Lots More Elbow Room for Scientists"
In many ways, Argonne National Laboratory's new Theory and Computing Sciences building might remind you of your own office building: a first-floor coffee bar, neat rows of cubicles, conference rooms scattered throughout the floors.
But the gaggle of lightning-fast computer processors and adjoining football field-sized cooling room are a quick reminder of the mind-bending work poised to happen here. | read more>
August 31, 2009
Chicago Sun-Times
"Argonne's New Center Really Computes: National Lab Gets Lots More Elbow Room for Scientists"
In many ways, Argonne National Laboratory's new Theory and Computing Sciences building might remind you of your own office building: a first-floor coffee bar, neat rows of cubicles, conference rooms scattered throughout the floors.
But the gaggle of lightning-fast computer processors and adjoining football field-sized cooling room are a quick reminder of the mind-bending work poised to happen here. | read more>
August 20, 2009
GizMag
"Extending Moore's Law Using Nuclear Fusion"
We recently looked at a technique that could help extend Moore's Law by using DNA molecules as scaffolding to pack more power and speed into computer chips. Now researchers from Purdue University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are working to achieve the same result by adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of 'nanolithography'. | read more>
August 12, 2009
Science Daily
"Combustion Simulation: Digital Fireworks"
Researchers from ETH Zurich have simulated autoignition in a turbulent flow using a supercomputer with up to 65,000 processors in one of the largest reactive flow simulations to date. The results could help to develop better models and reduce the high cost of real experiments. | read more>
July 23, 2009
Chicago Business News
"Argonne Researchers Win Four R&D 100 Awards"
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory received four R&D 100 awards as judged by R&D Magazine.
Principal developers from Argonne include Satish Balay, Dmitry Karpeev, Dinesh Kaushik, Matthew Knepley, Lois Curfman McInnes and Barry Smith. | read more>
April 14, 2009
HPCwire
"ALCF Working to Get More Science Per Watt"
Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P--called Intrepid--at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. Though Intrepid is one of the fastest and most energy-efficient computers in the world, researchers at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) are continually looking for ways to further reduce the power needed to operate the machine. | read more>
April 13, 2009
R&D magazine
"Blue Gene/P's New GPU Turns It into a Visual Powerhouse"
Nicknamed Eureka, an installation of NVIDIA Quadro Plex S4 external GPUs at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) allows researchers to better understand the data they produce with Intrepid at the ALCF. The powerful installation provides more than 111 teraflops and more than 3.2 terabytes of RAM. | read more>
April 12, 2009
AZoNano.com
"Visualizing and Exploring Findings as Highly Accurate Simulations"
Using software developed both at Argonne National Laboratory and externally, computer scientists have visualized data with Eureka, one of the world's largest graphics processing units for U.S. Department of Energy INCITE projects. | read more>
April 10, 2009
HPCWire
"Eureka Enables Science Breakthroughs at ALCF"
Most science research programs that run on high-performance computers like the IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) generate enormous quantities of data that represent the results of their calculations. But scientists can also use the ALCF to visualize, explore and communicate their findings as highly accurate simulations and often beautiful images. | read more>
