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March 26, 2008
LabTechnologist.com
"Metagenomics indicates changes in microbial communities"
A new bioinformatics technique, developed by researchers in MCS, is allowing researchers to rapidly screen the genetic sequences present microbial communities. | read more>

March 3, 2008
Columbia Spectator Online
"A New Format For Global Academic Research"
There is nothing new about universities supporting international collaborative efforts—research projects, exchanges of students and faculty, specific short-term partnerships around urgent issues, etc. What then, if anything, is different in the project of "the global university," one that a growing number of universities in the U.S. are now heralding?

This new format would function as a collaborative grid, with "open" access-where open is of course conditioned on some kind of membership, based on expertise. In the natural sciences, my former colleague at the University of Chicago’s Argonne Laboratory, Ian Foster, has developed a digital grid for scientific collaboration, which is one version of such an infrastructure already in use. | read more>

February 22, 2008
Chicago Maroon
"Bill Gates talks tech at GSB"
In the future that Bill Gates envisions, technology will enable the seamless flow of information between a wide assortment of sources and media, and scientists will be able to make sophisticated calculations that will change our understanding of the universe.

The chairman and co-founder of Microsoft addressed an overflow crowd of over 450 students, faculty and staff at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business’ Harper Center Wednesday, detailing the future of software, his charity work toward improving the lives of the world’s poorest and the collaborations between his company, foundation, and educational institutions. The lecture stemmed from a request by Gates to meet with Ian Foster, director of the Computation Institute and associate director of the mathematics and computer science division at Argonne National Laboratory. | read more>

January 10, 2008
InfoWorld
"Of Grids and Clouds"
Ian Foster (part of the founding intellect in the concept of grids in HPC) has an interesting post on his blog this week where he looks at the trends of grid and cloud computing, and hazards a few predictions for the future. | read more>

December 10, 2007
WebWire
"Argonne, UIC Researchers Get the Dirt on Prairie Soil"
Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago have dug up some interesting dirt on prairie soil and certain crops and grasses common to the central Midwest.

"Beyond growing crops like corn and soybeans, prairie soil is better than soils found in other parts of the United States at retaining carbon dioxide" said Roser Matamala, a terrestrial ecologist in Argonne’s Biosciences Division and the principal investigator of two projects that measure the intake from and release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In addition, her research has found that certain types of vegetation are better than others at absorbing carbon dioxide. | read more>

December 6, 2007
WebWire
"New Theory and Computing Sciences Building to be constructed at Argonne National Laboratory"
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory announced today that a new Theory and Computing Sciences Building will be constructed at the laboratory, solidifying the fastest growing research program in its history.

"From its very beginning, computing has been an aid to the advancement of science; however, somewhere along the line there was a sea change" said Michael Turner, Argonne’s chief scientist. "Computing is no longer just an aid, it is essential to almost every aspect of science and engineering across all disciplines. By focusing on the most challenging problems, this facility will enable breakthroughs across the broad frontier of science and engineering, benefiting both science and society. While we can imagine some of the breakthroughs that will come early on, we can only dream about those that will come over the long lifetime of this facility" | read more>

December 3, 2007
FirstScience.Com
" Argonne's Blue Gene/P gets more muscle to address most challenging scientific problems"
IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory announced completion of a contract for a 445-teraflops Blue Gene/P system for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). As the ALCF's second major acquisition, this enhancement increases the system capability by a factor of five to 556-teraflops. This additional capacity will accelerate the coming era of petascale computation in support of breakthrough science and engineering aimed at solving our nation's most challenging scientific problems. | read more>

December 3, 2007
Washington Post
"Faster Computers Accelerate Pace of Discovery"
The first "petascale" supercomputer will be capable of 1,000 trillion calculations per second. That's about twice as powerful as today's dominant model, a basketball-court-size beast known as BlueGene/L at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California that performs a peak of 596 trillion calculations per second. | read more>

November 26, 2007
HPCWire
"Argonne, Virginia Tech Win Storage Challenge Competition"
A team of researchers led by Pavan Balaji of Argonne National Laboratory and Wu Feng of Virginia Tech won an international competition for the most effective approach in using large-scale storage for high-performance computing. The award was presented November 15 at SC|07, the world's premier conference on high- performance computing and networking. | read more>