News Archives
April 10, 2008
CTWatch Quarterly edition on Urgent Computing
Pete Beckman is the guest editor for the latest issue of the CTWatch Quarterly-Urgent Computing: Exploring Supercomputing's New Role.
The challenges and crucial applications of urgent computing, including space shuttle damage analysis, severe weather forecasting and warning, and real-time medical simulations are discussed... |read >
April 3, 2008
Project, Says Its Director, Will 'Explain Story Behind Successful Enterprise'
With the help of researchers at the University’s Computation Institute, The Enterprise Initiative will integrate advanced computation and seek to develop an innovative and complex Web-based program that will provide visual simulations of different policies. |read >
February 4, 2008
First International HealthGrid Meeting to be Held in U.S. Issues Call for Papers
The HealthGrid U.S. Alliance is now accepting papers for HealthGrid 2008, the first International HealthGrid conference to be held in the United States, "Global HealthGrid: eScience Meets Biomedical Informatics". |read >
January 25, 2008
TeraGrid 08 Call for Participation
The TeraGrid has emerged as a leading comprehensive cyberinfrastructure enabling world-class open computational research. The 3rd annual TeraGrid Conference, TeraGrid ’08, will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of TeraGrid in research and education through presented papers, demonstrations, posters, and visualizations... |read >
November 26, 2007
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... |read >
November 21, 2007
Ian Foster, Ti Leggett, Mike Papka, Mike Wilde Win the Analytics Challenge at SC07!
Ian Foster, Ti Leggett, Mike Papka, and Mike Wilde were part of the team that won the Analytics Challenge at SC07 for presenting a new approach for protecting cyberinfrastructure. The project Angle, is led by the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago and including participants from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Southern California. |read >
November 8, 2007
ParaMEDIC Enables Worldwide Supercomputer for Bioinformatics
ParaMEDIC, a general software-based framework for large-scale distributed computing developed by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Virginia Tech, will have a significant impact on the study of genomics. |read >
October 12, 2007
Fab Labs Make Manufacturing Personal
Argonne National Laboratory, in conjunction with the University of Chicago, recently helped to launch a Fab Lab at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, and others may soon arrive both on site and at several locations in greater Chicagoland... |read >
October 12, 2007
Jonathan Silverstein, CI Associate Director, Elected to Membership in the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
The American College of Medical Informatics is a college of elected fellows from the United States and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. The new fellows will be introduced to the College and given certificate of membership on November 11th. |read >
October 5, 2007
Greening the Meeting
In the article "Greening the Meeting", Science magazine highlights the Access Grid as an alternative to travel for scientific conferences and meetings. |read >
