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April 10, 2009
Yahoo News/PRWeb
"Leading-Edge Data Analytics and Visualization Enable Breakthrough Science on the ALCF's Blue Gene/P"
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 the 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>
April 10, 2009
PhysOrg.com
"Leading-Edge Data Analytics and Visualization Enable Breakthrough Science"
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's (ALCF) ability to visualize enormous quantities of data is made possible by one of the world's largest graphics processing units (GPU). Nicknamed Eureka, this installation of NVIDIA Quadro Plex S4 external GPUs allow researchers to better understand the data they produce with Intrepid at the ALCF. | read more>
April 10, 2009
International Business Times
"Leading-Edge Data Analytics and Visualization Enable Breakthrough Science on the ALCF's Blue Gene/P"
Eureka, one of the world's largest installations of NVIDIA Quadro Plex S4 external graphics processing units, allows researchers to better understand the data they produce with the IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Eureka provides a vital link between simulation and analysis by allowing scientists to probe and interrogate their data in an interactive manner. | read more>
April 10, 2009
Information Engineer
"Leading-Edge Data Analytics and Visualization Enable Breakthrough Science on the ALCF's Blue Gene/P"
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's Eureka delivers a quantum leap in visual compute density, enabling breakthrough levels of productivity and capability in visualization and data analysis. | read more>
April 10, 2009
InterestAlert
"Leading-Edge Data Analytics and Visualization Enable Breakthrough Science on Blue Gene/P"
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility's ability to visualize enormous quantities of data is made possible with Eureka, one of the world's largest installations of NVIDIA Quadro Plex S4 external graphics processing units. | read more>
April 10, 2009
Nanowerk News
"Leading-Edge Data Analytics and Visualization Enable Breakthrough Science"
Using software developed both at Argonne National Laboratory and externally, computer scientists have visualized data with Eureka for U.S. Department of Energy INCITE projects focusing on turbulent thermal transport in sodium-cooled nuclear reactor cores, cardiac rhythm disorders, and Type Ia supernovae, which are among the brightest and most powerful exploding stars in the universe. | read more>
March 16, 2009
CNET News
"Cloud computing: How we got here"
Like most technology transitions, this was a gradual evolution with antecedents in attempts to move beyond EDI toward a world of Internet scale distributed computing with Web services. Much of the 1990s was dominated by esoteric debates over alphabet soup-style technical standards to help further this along. Then computer scientists Ian Foster, Steven Tuecke and Carl Kesselman authored a paper on how to extend the clustering concept. (Clustering was a popular IT technique that allowed a system to automatically decide which CPU should run a particular piece of code.) In practice, their road map for the grid was akin to a metered utility service where a company plugs into the electricity grid and pays only for what it uses. | read more>
February 20, 2009
RxPG News
"MacArthur Foundation Awards Planning Grant to Improve Decision-making in Energy Policy"
The University of Chicago is launching a large-scale collaboration to develop a computational modeling tool that will help a wide range of organizations in climate and energy policy decision-making. | read more>
February 5, 2009
HPCwire
"A Decade of Discovery Hails Supercomputers Used in Parkinson's Disease Breakthrough"
A new book by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) commemorating the agency's most significant scientific breakthroughs of the last decade includes the groundbreaking research by scientists at the San Diego Supercomputer Center to better understand the molecular mechanisms that cause Parkinson's disease.
Called A Decade of Discovery, the new publication covers a wide array of transformational science and engineering research, divided into three broad categories: energy and the environment, national security, and life and physical science. The hardcover book highlights research done by the DOE's 17 national laboratories, such as the development of new, cleaner and sustainable fuels; new anti-terrorism technologies to protect our troops and citizens; measures being taken to maintain a safe and reliable nuclear weapons stockpile; and better ways to detect and treat major diseases such as cancer, Parkinson's, and other illnesses.
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February 3, 2009
The Journal News
"IBM Gets Order for Massive Supercomputer from Uncle Sam"
Just last summer, IBM Corp. wowed the world with a supercomputer capable of performing one thousand trillion calculations per second, also known as a petaflop. Today, the Armonk-based computer giant is announcing a new machine that's up to 20 times faster.
Code-named Sequoia, the supercomputer has been ordered up by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, an agency that has long relied on IBM to provide the supercomputing muscle to safeguard the nation's nuclear stockpile.
Sequoia will include 1.6 million microprocessors. It will be built and tested at IBM's Rochester, Minn., plant. The hardware and software will be developed by IBM engineers and researchers in Yorktown Heights and Rochester, N.Y. in collaboration with scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. | read more>
