News Archives
November 23, 2009
Shared Supercomputing and Everyday Research
“You’ve seen these desktop applications move into the cloud,” said Pete Beckman, the director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility in Illinois. “Now science is on that same track. This helps democratize science and good ideas... |read >
November 20, 2009
StarGate Demo at SC09 Shows How to Keep Astrophysics Data Out of Archival
As both an astrophysicist and director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Mike Norman understands two common perspectives on archiving massive scientific datasets. During a live demonstration at the SC09 conference of streaming data simulating cosmic structures of the early universe, Norman said that some center directors view their data archives as "black holes," where a wealth of data accumulates and needs to be protected... |read >
November 17, 2009
FutureGrid to Provide Platform for Experimental Computation
Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing. |read >
November 16, 2009
Green Supercomputing at Argonne
“The ALCF seeks new ways to use extreme-scale supercomputers as a tool for scientific discovery. We pursue solutions to the nation's scientific challenges while simultaneously working to be the most environmentally responsible, efficient, computing resource available for science... |read >
November 10, 2009
'Chicago Tonight' to Focus on Cloud Computing, Argonne
Rich Samuels, a news correspondent with "Chicago Tonight," a local news program that airs on WTTW-Channel 11, visited the laboratory for a segment on cloud computing expected to run tonight during the 7 p... |read >
November 9, 2009
Climate Modeling Research at Argonne National Laboratory
Climate modeling research at Argonne has three main thrusts. The first involves developing climate models capable of executing efficiently on ultra-high-speed supercomputers, with full integration of biosphere and atmospheric processes... |read >
November 3, 2009
Argonne Staff Engaged in SC09 Activities
Argonne National Laboratory staff will be presenting a wide variety of papers, workshops, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, tutorials, and posters at SC09 on November 14-20 in Portland, Oregon.
In addition to the participation in the technical program, an array of speakers, electronic posters and research highlights will be displayed at the Argonne exhibit. |read >
October 21, 2009
Seeds of Collaboration
Chicago, popularly known for its gangsters, sports fans and deep-dish pizza, also has a cluster of impressive research institutions that often get overshadowed by the elite universities on both US coasts... |read >
October 21, 2009
Argonne's Magellan Cloud Computing Research Project
A new $32 million program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines... |read >
October 7, 2009
Argonne's Advanced Photon Source lit the way to chemistry Nobel
Between them, biochemists Thomas Steitz of Yale University, Ada Yonath of Israel's Weizmann Institute, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of Cambridge, England's Medical Research Center have published more than 60 papers that describe research performed at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source (APS), which is supported by the DOE Office of Science... |read >
