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August 5, 2008
Sys-Con Media
"The Future of Cloud Computing - An Army of Monkeys?"
The term 'Grid' was coined by the likes of Ian Foster in the 90's to define technoloies that would 'allow consumers to obtain computing power on demand', following on from John McCarthy's 1960 prediction that 'computation may someday be organized as a public utility'. | read more>
July 25, 2008
Dr. Dobb's Journal
"Supercomputer + GPU = Advanced Visualization"
The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid -- the fastest computer in the world for open science and the third fastest overall computer in the world -- at the Argonne National Lab will soon have advanced data analytics and visualization capabilities, thanks to a recent contract awarded to GraphStream and the world's largest installation of NVIDIA Quadro Plex S4 GPUs. The installation will offer 104 dual quad-core servers with 208 Quadro FX5600 GPUs in the S4s. | read more>
June 19, 2008
Chicago Sun-Times
"World's No. 3 Computer Resides at Argonne Lab"
One of the world's quickest supercomputers can be found at Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne's IBM Blue Gene/P, dubbed "Intrepid," was declared the third-fastest supercomputer on the planet Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. The machine also was recognized as the most powerful supercomputer dedicated to open science - the practice of making computing facilities available to researchers throughout the country. | read more>
June 7, 2008
itworldcanada.com
"Cloud Computing Needs Rainmakers"
In the early 1990s, a new computing architecture known as “grid computing” was conceived. The term itself is a metaphor that refers to making computing power as easy to access as the electrical power grid. The three originators of the grid computing concept (Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, and Steve Tueche) went on to lead the creation of the Globus Toolkit, a collection of Open Source Software (OSS) tools that can be used to build and manage computing grids. To this day the toolkit is a robust OSS project with new releases planned and many success stories behind it.
Cloud computing is a new term that refers to a subset of grid computing, and represents an alternative to having local servers or personal devices handling users’ applications. In general, the cloud is meant to represent the Internet, so cloud computing suggests that functionality comes from the Internet rather than any specific identifiable computing device. Also central to the idea is that management tasks are automated; if the system requires human intervention to allocate processes to computing resources then it’s not a cloud, it’s only a data center. | read more>
April 23, 2008
Claredon Hills.com
"Mind-blowing Blue Gene/P revs up at Argonne"
"It's the most complex machine built by humans or even human's robots'" said Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director at Argonne. "And it's amazing that it's even possible." | read more>
April 22, 2008
Southtown Star
"Big, Bad Blue Gene"
Blue Gene/P, believed to be the second-fastest supercomputer on the planet, was officially powered up Monday at Argonne National Laboratory. | read more>
April 22, 2008
Medill Reports
"Deep in the Woods, a Computer Roars"
Intrepid, the Blue Gene/P supercomputer | read more>
April 21, 2008
Chicago Public Radio, Eight Forty-Eight
"Argonne Lab's New Supercomputer"
Hear Argonne National Laboratory Director Bob Rosner's on-air comments about the Blue Gene/P on Chicago public radio station WBEZ. | read more>
April 11, 2008
HPCwire
"SiCortex Gets Personal"
At Argonne National Lab, Rick Stevens, associate director of Computing and Life Sciences, also has a Catapult in his office. The system was purchased in conjunction with the 5.8 teraflop SC5832 the lab purchased in October 2007. No word on what Stevens is up to with his system, but since he still dabbles in programming, one can assume his personal SC072 is getting a workout. | read more>
April 11, 2008
HPCwire
"SiCortex Gets Personal"
At Argonne National Lab, Rick Stevens, associate director of Computing and Life Sciences, also has a Catapult in his office. The system was purchased in conjunction with the 5.8 teraflop SC5832 the lab purchased in October 2007. No word on what Stevens is up to with his system, but since he still dabbles in programming, one can assume his personal SC072 is getting a workout. | read more>
