CI Newsletter
Computation News

In the current newsletter, we welcome Svetlozar Nestorov as the new editor and thank Mark Hereld for his past work on CICN. We include a report from our recent "Computation and Language" disciplinary deep dive and a profile on the Metagenomics RAST (Rapid Annotation using Subsystems Technology) service.

Additional articles this month feature a MySQL 'How-to' and a Q&A with CI Senior Fellow Mark Hereld. [newsletter]

IN THE NEWS

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>

February 3, 2009
The Journal News
"IBM Gets Order for Massive Supercomputer from Uncle Sam" | read more>

August 21, 2008
NextGov - Tech Insider
"Internet Search: When More is Less?" | read more>

August 5, 2008
Sys-Con Media
"The Future of Cloud Computing - An Army of Monkeys?" | read more>

June 7, 2008
itworldcanada.com
"Cloud Computing Needs Rainmakers" | read more>

April 11, 2008
HPCwire
"SiCortex Gets Personal" | read more>

News

June 17, 2009

Argonne Technology Enables High-speed Data Transfer

GridFTP, a protocol developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, has been used to transfer unprecedented amounts of data over the Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), which provides a reliable, high-performance communications infrastructure to facilitate large-scale, collaborative science endeavors. |read >

June 16, 2009

HPC Successes Featured at SciDAC 2009 Electronic Visualization and Poster Night

Argonne showcased select simulations representing high performance computing (HPC) research results at the SciDAC 2009 Electronic Visualization and Poster Night held June 15 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. |read >

June 12, 2009

Computational Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Advanced computers are revolutionizing our ability to address complex problems in science and engineering. To stimulate research in computational science, Argonne has inaugurated an exciting new Computational Postdoctoral Fellowship program for outstanding new Ph... |read >

May 28, 2009

Accomplished computational scientist has joined University-Argonne institute

Daniel S. Katz has joined the Computation Institute as a senior computational researcher and high-performance computing/grid consultant. In announcing the appointment, Ian Foster lauded Katz as "a distinguished computational scientist, well-known nationally and internationally... |read >

May 18, 2009

Leyffer named SIAM fellow

Sven Leyffer, a computational mathematician in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Leyffer is developing and applying nonlinear optimization methodologies to emerging areas such as mixed-integer nonlinear optimization and optimization problems with complementarity constraints... |read >