CI Newsletter
Computation News

In the current newsletter, Ian reflects on the status of the Institute and what should be our plans for the coming years.

Additional articles this month feature an Introduction to TeraGrid, an article on Computational Infrastructure for Economic Research, report on the recent DSLWorkshop 2009 and a Q&A with CI Senior Fellow, Mike Wilde.

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IN THE NEWS

September 25, 2009
Processor.com
"Tracking Green IT" | read more>

August 31, 2009
Chicago Sun-TImes
"Argonne's New Center Really Computes: National Lab Gets Lots More Elbow Room for Scientists" | read more>

August 31, 2009
Chicago Sun-Times
"Argonne's New Center Really Computes: National Lab Gets Lots More Elbow Room for Scientists" | read more>

August 27, 2009
HPCWire
"LSU CCT Assists in Hosting Cluster Conference" | read more>

July 23, 2009
Chicago Business News
"Argonne Researchers Win Four R&D 100 Awards" | read more>

March 16, 2009
CNET News
"Cloud computing: How we got here" | read more>

February 20, 2009
RxPG News
"MacArthur Foundation Awards Planning Grant to Improve Decision-making in Energy Policy" | read more>

February 5, 2009
HPCwire
"A Decade of Discovery Hails Supercomputers Used in Parkinson's Disease Breakthrough" | read more>

News

February 1, 2010

Call for Proposals: ALCF Early Science Program to Award Cycles on Next-Generation IBM Blue Gene

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 installation and full production) beginning in early 2012... |read >

January 27, 2010

Supercomputers INCITE New Discoveries

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... |read >

January 14, 2010

Argonne researcher named SIAM Vice President for Programs

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)... |read >

January 4, 2010

Argonne Streaming Visualization Sends Images Across the World

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... |read >

January 1, 2010

At Argonne Lab, a Shift from Radioactivity to Supercomputers

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 to pursue a broader palate of scientific research. |read >