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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 >
June 23, 2008
Team Led by Argonne Gets Best Paper Award
A team of researchers from 7 different research institutes, lead by Argonne National Laboratory, gets the best paper award. The team, lead by Pavan Balaji, together with Ewing Lusk, Rajeev Thakur, Ian Foster and Susan Coghlan from Argonne, received the best paper award at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'08) that took place on June 18 - 20... |read >
June 18, 2008
Argonne's Supercomputer Named World’s Fastest for Open Science, Third Overall
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory's IBM Blue Gene/P high-performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the semiannual Top500 List of the world's fastest computers... |read >
June 18, 2008
ALCF’s Blue Gene/L Retired
The IBM BG/L system housed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will be retired in July 2008. The system—with 1,024 dual-core nodes (2,048 processors) and 500 gigabytes of memory—has a peak performance of 5... |read >
June 18, 2008
The U.S. Embraces HealthGrid
Organized by Jonathan Silverstein, The University of Chicago hosted HealthGrid 2008 in early June at its downtown Gleacher Center, the first non-European venue for the conference. HealthGrid.US organized the meeting, signaling its readiness to collaborate fully with its European colleagues and begin the process of defining a roadmap. |read >
