The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory established the Computation Institute in 2000 to address the most challenging problems arising in the use of strategic computation and communications. Its establishment was motivated by the tremendous opportunities inherent in new approaches to research based on the large-scale application of computation, data, and communications, and the strategic importance to the University and Argonne of developing the capabilities required to exploit those opportunities. http://www.ci.anl.gov Computation Institute Argonne National Laboratory staff will be presenting a wide variety of papers, workshops, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, tutorials, and posters at SC09 on November 14-20 in Portland, Oregon. In addition to the participation in the technical program, http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=242 As part of insideHPC's series of articles with some of the big thinkers in HPC ahead of SC09, insideHPC spent some time with Rick Stevens to get a sense from him about where we are now, and where our community is headed next. http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=237 Chicago, popularly known for its gangsters, sports fans and deep-dish pizza, also has a cluster of impressive research institutions that often get overshadowed by the elite universities on both US coasts. But now, the city's biggest research players http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=238 Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through th http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=236 The IBM Blue Gene series of energy-efficient supercomputers, central to breakthrough scientific research around the world, will be singled out by President Barack Obama as a Medal of Technology and Innovation award-winner on October 7 in Washington, http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=233 Between them, biochemists Thomas Steitz of Yale University, Ada Yonath of Israel's Weizmann Institute, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of Cambridge, England's Medical Research Center have published more than 60 papers that describe research performed at http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=235 Rick Stevens to lead CI effort to make the RAST annotation services more broadly available as part of $27 NIH contract recently awarded to the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. RAST is a fully automated genomics tool that can greatly help in acceler http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=232 Jonathan Silverstein, professor of surgery and associate director of the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory: Grid Technology Transforming Healthcare. He will focus on how our healthcare system is being http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=229 Since its inception, the goal of caBIG® has been to reduce the burden of cancer by enabling the type of collaborative research that these workflows support. Ravi Madduri, a computer scientist at the University of Chicago and long time participant http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=226 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 http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=224