News Archives
June 30, 2008
New TCS Building to Foster Cutting-Edge Research
The Theory and Computing Sciences (TCS) Building now under construction at Argonne. TCS is expected to be occupied in the summer of 2009. |read >
June 23, 2008
Team Led by Argonne Gets Best Paper Award
A team of researchers from 7 different research institutes, lead by Argonne National Laboratory, gets the best paper award. The team, lead by Pavan Balaji, together with Ewing Lusk, Rajeev Thakur, Ian Foster and Susan Coghlan from Argonne, received the best paper award at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'08) that took place on June 18 - 20... |read >
June 18, 2008
The U.S. Embraces HealthGrid
Organized by Jonathan Silverstein, The University of Chicago hosted HealthGrid 2008 in early June at its downtown Gleacher Center, the first non-European venue for the conference. HealthGrid.US organized the meeting, signaling its readiness to collaborate fully with its European colleagues and begin the process of defining a roadmap. |read >
May 1, 2008
Global Immersive Virtual Anatomy Classrooms
Held by The University of Chicago and broadcast using the AccessGrid the lesson used views of the Virtual Human data set to allow local colleagues to participate in the Anatomy Lecture given by Jonathan Silverstein M... |read >
May 1, 2008
Argonne Supercomputer to Simulate Extreme Physics of Exploding Stars
A team of scientists at the University of Chicago's Flash Center will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds. |read >
April 30, 2008
The Role of Open Source in Grid Computing: Past, Present and Future
Why is Globus software open source? Has this decision paid off? What does the future of open source technology hold and how can users play their part?
Ian Foster of the Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago shares his thoughts on the evolution of open source movement. |read >
April 30, 2008
The New Nimbus: First Steps in the Clouds
A new cloud computing service is allowing scientists to provision virtual machines using a leasing model. Called Nimbus, the service offers the chance to explore a different way of using grid resources. |read >
April 28, 2008
Program Finalized for First International HealthGrid meeting to be held in U.S., June 2-4, 2008
The HealthGrid U.S. Alliance has finalized the program for the sixth annual International HealthGrid conference - the first one to be held in the United States, "Global HealthGrid: eScience Meets Biomedical Informatics... |read >
April 17, 2008
Initiative to Focus on Energy Use
Proposals will be reviewed by a committee composed of Ian Foster, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science and Director of the Computation Institute; Kevin Murphy, the George J... |read >
April 11, 2008
Ray Bair, Raymond Bair, Chief Computational Scientist, CELS, Will Lecture at IIT and Sigma Xi Research Day
Following the student poster competition, Sigma Xi is holding a lecture by Doctor Raymond Bair, Chief Computational Scientist in the CELS Directorate at Argonne National Laboratory and CI Senior Fellow... |read >
