News Archives
January 19, 2009
The Globus Alliance's First Google Summer of Code
The first year participating in Google Summer of Code™, we were given ten students to mentor. Eight of our students made it through the program and, three months after the end of Summer of Code, most of the code produced by these students has either made it into the official Globus code repository or is in the process of being added. |read >
December 3, 2008
How to run a million jobs
At SC08, several experts, including Ioan Raicu of the CI, organized an informal session to share information on up-and-coming solutions for expressing, managing, and executing "megajobs." They also discussed ways of repackaging work to avoid megajobs altogether... |read >
November 14, 2008
Argonne Participates in SC08
When SC08 opens November 15, 2008 in Austin, Texas, the conference will feature the latest scientific and technical innovations from around the world. Bringing together scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and managers, SC08 will be the forum for demonstrating how these developments are driving new ideas, new discoveries and new industries. |read >
October 10, 2008
Mark Hereld Participates in Panel on 'Emergence: Philosophy Meets Science' at the Chicago Humanities Festival
A distinguished cross-disciplinary panel will consider the various meanings and applications of this dynamic view of the world. Participants include Sandra Mitchell, Robert Laughlin, Paul Humphreys and Mark Hereld... |read >
September 29, 2008
Ian Foster: Big Computation, Bigger Knowledge
Ian Foster will participate in the Chicago Humanities Festival on October 11th. His discussion will include descriptions and demonstrations of relevant projects at the University and Argonne, including the world's fastest supercomputer for open science; grid computing for worldwide resource federation and collaboration; and massive data sets from political science, astrophysics, and neuroscience. |read >
September 5, 2008
Call for Participation: MidWest Grid School (MWGS'08)
Please join us for a 3-day hands-on course in large-scale and high-performance grid computing on Sept. 17-19, 2008, at University of Chicago, Chicago IL.
Learn about grid and high throughput computing through an intensive OSG course introducing techniques for science and engineering in the use of large-scale grid computing resources... |read >
August 5, 2008
Computation Institute to Bulk Up Data Analysis Capability with $1.5 Million Grant
The Computation Institute, a joint effort of the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has received a grant for a computer system that will enable researchers to store, access and analyze massive datasets... |read >
July 29, 2008
W.M. Keck Foundation Grant Funds Reproductive Science Research
The project is being led by Thomas O'Halloran, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Teresa K. Woodruff, Thomas J. Watkins Memorial Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Feinberg School of Medicine... |read >
July 17, 2008
Ten Research Proposals Awarded Grants Under New Chicago Energy Initiative
The University has funded various awards to researchers at the Computation Institute and Argonne National Laboratory under the Chicago Energy Initiative, which President Zimmer launched earlier this year... |read >
July 17, 2008
Eckhardt's $20 million gift an investment in future of science
A major program to build new fields of scientific expertise and expand existing efforts at the University has inspired a $20 million donation to benefit the Physical Sciences Division from Chicago futures trader and alumnus William Eckhardt (S... |read >
