CI Newsletter
Computation News

Updated monthly, each inssue includes featured articles along with upcoming funding opportunities and important announcements.

In the May 2008 Computation Institute newsletter we highlight the work of Paul Hovland in a report on the Automatic Differentiation and the OpenAD/F Project and draw our attention to the HPC and Cloud Computing in the Computation Institute.

Additional articles this month feature the recent NSF Next Generation Software Workshop and CI Fellow Sam Volchenboum.
[Computation News]

IN THE NEWS

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

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

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

March 3, 2008
Columbia Spectator Online
"A New Format For Global Academic Research" | read more>

February 22, 2008
Chicago Maroon
"Bill Gates talks tech at GSB" | read more>

February 22, 2008
Chicago Maroon
"Bill Gates talks tech at GSB" | read more>

January 10, 2008
InfoWorld
"Of Grids and Clouds" | read more>

December 10, 2007
WebWire
"Argonne, UIC Researchers Get the Dirt on Prairie Soil" | read more>

News

July 17, 2008

Installation of Leading-Edge Data Analytics, Visualization

The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the ALCF will soon have the data analytics and visualization capability to complement its distinction as the fastest computer in the world for open science and the third fastest overall computer in the world... |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

Researchers Receive Awards for Work on Cancer Grid Infrastructure

Ravi Madduri and Stuart Martin of Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science Division and Wei Tan of the University of Chicago/Argonne Computation Institute were honored recently for their work in the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG). |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 >

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 >