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 The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is now accepting proposals for time allocations on its next-generation, 10 petaflop IBM Blue Gene system. Allocations through the Early Science Program (ESP) are for preproduction hours (between system instal http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=272 Five researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory will lead projects that have been awarded a total of 80 million hours of computing time on Argonne’s energy-efficient Blue Gene/P. Using the computer allotmen http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=270 Sven Leyffer, a computational mathematician in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, has been named Vice President for Programs for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The organization includes more than 12 http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=268 Modeling the evolution of the universe is no mean feat, not only because of the complex mathematics involved, but also because of the sheer amount of data that is generated from a working model of-well, the universe. Dealing with data, however, is http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=257 Argonne National Laboratory, the nuclear research facility in the Chicago suburbs that midwifed the atomic bomb, is ending its use of highly radioactive materials - much to the relief of its neighbors - in favor of supercomputers that will allow it t http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=256 Argonne's Metagenomics Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology server, or MG-RAST, has processed more than 100 gigabytes (or 100 gigabases) of samples, making MG-RAST the primary data repository and analysis resource for the metagenomics communit http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=254 Ten years ago, Chicago hospitals were at ground zero when the deadly MRSA bacterium, till then confined to hospitals, learned some new tricks and spilled out into the community. This year, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the Univers http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=253 Ian Foster has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The fellowship program, established in 1993, honors ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contr http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=252 With $32 million from the Energy Department, Argonne has set to work on Magellan, a project to explore the creation of a cloud-computing infrastructure that scientists around the globe can use. Mr. Beckman argued that such a system would reduce the n http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=250 As both an astrophysicist and director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Mike Norman understands two common perspectives on archiving massive scientific datasets. During a live demonstration at the SC09 conference of streaming data simula http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/news/detail.php?id=249