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January 23, 2009
Bio IT World.com
"SC08 Showcases HPC Muscle Systems, Top500 List"
The recent SC08 conference marked the 20th anniversary of the annual supercomputing conference and expo, with the application of high-performance computing (HPC) in life sciences a major theme of the meeting.
Researchers who need masses of computational power might want to consider a program at Argonne National Laboratory. “We award large blocks of time to accelerate research,” said Peter Beckman, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). The facility is home to one of the world's fastest computers for open science and is part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) effort to provide leadership-class computing resources to the scientific community. | read more>
December 18, 2008
HPCwire
"Argonne Facility Helps Researcher Win Sackler Prize"
David Baker, University of Washington (UW) professor of biochemistry and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute, has been awarded the 2008 Raymond & Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics. | read more>
December 18, 2008
HPCwire
"Baby, It's Cold Outside. . .Let's Calculate Something"
Argonne National Labs is part of the Department of Energy, so it's not exactly surprising to learn that they are actively looking for ways to reduce energy use. But using Chicago's cold winters to save $25,000 a month on cooling costs for the supers in their Leadership Computing Facility is, well, cool. | read more>
December 11, 2008
U.S. Department of Energy Website
"Hope for Those with Parkinson's"
A Department of Energy program that opens some of the world's most powerful computers to researchers around the globe has generated a promising lead for a Parkinson's disease treatment.
A team led by researcher Igor Tsigelny of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) used the Blue Gene/P supercomputer at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory to simulate how proteins called alpha-synucleins (aS) damage neurons. The simulation showed in detail how aS molecules join into ring-like structures that penetrate the cell membranes and create pores. In the case of Parkinson’s disease, the pores can lead to death in the brain’s dopamine-producing cells, causing loss of mobility and other symptoms that worsen over time.
Tsigelny is collaborating with UCSD neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah to verify the modeling and simulation findings. The computational work also generated leads for a drug to slow Parkinson’s progression. Tsigelny and Masliah already have experimental results that support their hypothesis. | read more>
November 26, 2008
ACM Tech News
"Berkeley Lab Team Wins Special ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Algorithm Innovation"
A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has won a prestigious Gordon Bell Prize, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for special achievement in high performance computing for their research into the energy harnessing the potential of nanostructures. Their method, which was used to predict the efficiency of a new solar cell material, achieved impressive performance and scalability.
The Berkeley Lab researchers used three of the most advanced scientific computing facilities of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science for this award-winning work: the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at Argonne National Laboratory, and the National Center of Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Their study was titled: "Linearly Scaling 3D Fragment Method for Large-Scale Electronic Structure Calculations." | read more>
November 25, 2008
Scientific Computing World
"Peter Beckman Named Director at Argonne Facility"
Peter Beckman has been named director of the Leadership Computing Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The Leadership Computing Facility operates the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), which is home to the world's fastest computer for open science, the Blue Gene/P and is part of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) effort to provide leadership-class computing resources to the scientific community. | read more>
November 25, 2008
Scientific Computing World
"Argonne Nets SC08's HPC Challenge Award"
The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has won the HPC Challenge award at SC08 in Austin, Texas.
Argonne was the clear winner in two of the four categories awarded in the HPC Challenge best performance benchmark competition which were run using 32 racks of Argonne's Blue Gene/P. | read more>
November 20, 2008
Government Computer News
"Argonne, Oak Ridge Labs Sweep HPC Challenge"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's High Performance Computing Challenge has recognized supercomputers at the Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory for their superior performance. | read more>
November 18, 2008
supercomputingonline.com
"Beckman Named Director of Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility"
Peter Beckman has been named director of the Leadership Computing Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. The Leadership Computing Facility operates the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), which is home to the world’s fastest computer for open science, the Blue Gene/P and is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) effort to provide leadership-class computing resources to the scientific community. | read more>
November 12, 2008
HPCWire
"Argonne Supercomputer Uses DataDirect Storage"
DataDirect Networks has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory successfully deployed Intrepid, one of the world's fastest supercomputers for open science. | read more>
