News & Announcements
"Collaborative Supercomputing--DOE partners with NOAA, Work to be Performed at the ALCF"
The Office of Science will make available more than 10 million hours of computing time for NOAA to develop and refine advanced climate change models. The work will be performed on the latest computing hardware at three DOE labs: Argonne, Oak Ridge, and NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley. | read more >>
 "Department of Energy to Provide Supercomputing Time to Run NOAA's Climate Change Models"
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science will make available more than 10 million hours of computing time for the U.S. Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to explore advanced climate change models at three of DOE’s national laboratories as part of a three-year memorandum of understanding on collaborative climate research signed today by the two agencies... | read more >>
"Call for Participation: MidWest Grid School (MWGS'08)"
Please join us for a 3-day hands-on course in large-scale and high-performance grid computing on Sept. 17-19, 2008, at University of Chicago, Chicago IL.
Learn about grid and high throughput computing through an intensive OSG course introducing techniques for science and engineering in the use of large-scale grid computing resources... | read more >>
"Open House at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility"
More than 350 employees attended the August 14th Open House at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). After an overview presentation by Pete Beckman, division director, and Paul Messina, director of science, guests toured the Interim Supercomputing Support Facility, home to the ALCF's Blue Gene/P... | read more >>
"Computation Institute to Bulk Up Data Analysis Capability with $1.5 Million Grant"
The Computation Institute, a joint effort of the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has received a grant for a computer system that will enable researchers to store, access and analyze massive datasets... | read more >>
"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 more >>
"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 more >>
"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 more >>
"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 more >>
"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 more >>
"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 more >>
"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 more >>
"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 more >>
"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 more >>
"DOE's Office of Science to Award High Performance Computing Resources to Advance Scientific Research"
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today it is accepting proposals for a program to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers at four of DOE’s national laboratories... | read more >>
"Rob Ross Receives Outstanding Young Alumni Award"
Dr. Robert Ross has received an Outstanding Young Alumni Award for 2008 from Clemson University, South Carolina.
The award, which was presented at the 13th annual Engineering and Science Banquet, recognizes his
significant career success and notable contributions to society... | read more >>
"Argonne Technology Aids Largest Metagenome Study to Date"
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory recently completed a study that compared more than 14 million microbial sequences from 90 metagenomes collected from nine different biomes or ecosystems. Unlike other metagenomic studies, this project analyzed samples that run the gamut from deep-sea samples to the bacterial communities inside the human gut. | read more >>
"IEEE eScience 2008 Call for Participation"
Organizing committees of the 4th International IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing eScience 2008 Conference are now accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits, and demos; and workshops and special sessions. | read more >>
"Global Immersive Virtual Anatomy Classrooms"
Held by The University of Chicago and broadcast using the AccessGrid the lesson used views of the Virtual Human data set to allow local colleagues to participate in the Anatomy Lecture given by Jonathan Silverstein M... | read more >>
"Argonne Supercomputer to Simulate Extreme Physics of Exploding Stars"
A team of scientists at the University of Chicago's Flash Center will expend 22 million computational hours during the next year on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, simulating an event that takes less than five seconds. | read more >>
"The Role of Open Source in Grid Computing: Past, Present and Future"
Why is Globus software open source? Has this decision paid off? What does the future of open source technology hold and how can users play their part?
Ian Foster of the Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago shares his thoughts on the evolution of open source movement. | read more >>
"The New Nimbus: First Steps in the Clouds"
A new cloud computing service is allowing scientists to provision virtual machines using a leasing model. Called Nimbus, the service offers the chance to explore a different way of using grid resources. | read more >>
"Program Finalized for First International HealthGrid meeting to be held in U.S., June 2-4, 2008"
The HealthGrid U.S. Alliance has finalized the program for the sixth annual International HealthGrid conference - the first one to be held in the United States, "Global HealthGrid: eScience Meets Biomedical Informatics... | read more >>
"DOE Dedicates Argonne Leadership Computing Facility"
Argonne will dedicate the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) today. The leadership-class computing facility will enable the research and development community to make innovative and high-impact science and engineering breakthroughs. | read more >>
"Argonne Lab's New Supercomputer"
Argonne National Laboratory Director Robert Rosner addresses an audience gathered at the April 21 dedication of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Hear Dr. Rosner's on-air comments with Chicago public radio station WBEZ. | read more >>
"Initiative to Focus on Energy Use"
Proposals will be reviewed by a committee composed of Ian Foster, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science and Director of the Computation Institute; Kevin Murphy, the George J... | read more >>
"Ray Bair, Raymond Bair, Chief Computational Scientist, CELS, Will Lecture at IIT and Sigma Xi Research Day"
Following the student poster competition, Sigma Xi is holding a lecture by Doctor Raymond Bair, Chief Computational Scientist in the CELS Directorate at Argonne National Laboratory and CI Senior Fellow... | read more >>
"CTWatch Quarterly edition on Urgent Computing"
Pete Beckman is the guest editor for the latest issue of the CTWatch Quarterly-Urgent Computing: Exploring Supercomputing's New Role.
The challenges and crucial applications of urgent computing, including space shuttle damage analysis, severe weather forecasting and warning, and real-time medical simulations are discussed... | read more >>
"ALCF Intrepid 100-TF BG/P System Goes Live"
The 100-TF BG/P system is now available for production use. | read more >>
"ALCF Tutorial at SciDAC 2008"
Kalyan Kumaran, Manager, Performance Engineering and Data Analytics, at the ALCF will present a tutorial on "Porting and Scaling Applications on ALCF's Blue Gene/P" on July 18 in Redmond, WA. A day of tutorials on SciDAC-supported research is being held in conjunction with the upcoming SciDAC 2008 conference... | read more >>
"Metagenomics indicates changes in microbial communities"
A new bioinformatics technique, developed by researchers in MCS, is allowing researchers to rapidly screen the genetic sequences present microbial communities. | read more >>
"Beckman Appointed ALCF Project Director, Bair to Lead CELS Strategic Planning"
Pete Beckman has been appointed project director of the ALCF. He also will serve as acting division director for the Leadership Computing Facility. | read more >>
"Register Today for the INCITE Performance Workshop"
Advanced Users: Are you ready to step up your application’s performance and scalability? | read more >>
"Introduction to Blue Gene/P Workshop"
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the Blue Gene Consortium are jointly hosting a Blue Gene/P Porting and Tuning Workshop on March 6 at Argonne National Laboratory. The workshop will provide valuable information on ALCF Blue Gene/P resources and related services, technical details on the IBM Blue Gene/P architecture, as well as hands-on assistance in porting and tuning of applications on the BG/P... | read more >>
"TeraGrid 08 Call for Participation"
The TeraGrid has emerged as a leading comprehensive cyberinfrastructure enabling world-class open computational research. The 3rd annual TeraGrid Conference, TeraGrid ’08, will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of TeraGrid in research and education through presented papers, demonstrations, posters, and visualizations... | read more >>
"Argonne's Blue Gene/P to Host Large Cadre of INCITE Researchers"
Twenty research projects have been awarded more than 111 million hours of computing time at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at Argonne National Laboratory. | read more >>
"Argonne, UIC researchers get the dirt on prairie soil"
Bio researcher, Roser Matamala, and MCS researcher, Robert Jacob, is among a team researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago involved
in two projects that measure the intake from and release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. | read more >>
"New Theory and Computing Sciences Building to be Constructed at Argonne National Laboratory"
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory announced today that a new Theory and Computing Sciences Building will be constructed at the laboratory, solidifying the fastest growing research program in its history... | read more >>
"Argonne, Virginia Tech Win Storage Challenge Competition"
A team of researchers led by Pavan Balaji of Argonne National Laboratory and Wu Feng of Virginia Tech won an international competition for the most effective approach in using large-scale storage for high-performance computing... | read more >>
"Ian Foster, Ti Leggett, Mike Papka, Mike Wilde Win the Analytics Challenge at SC07!"
Ian Foster, Ti Leggett, Mike Papka, and Mike Wilde were part of the team that won the Analytics Challenge at SC07 for presenting a new approach for protecting cyberinfrastructure. The project Angle, is led by the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago and including participants from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Southern California. | read more >>
"Argonne National Laboratory at Supercomputing 07"
Advanced computing touches almost every area of science today, and its continued integration will strongly influence science of the future. Supercomputing 2007 provides a grand opportunity for Argonne to showcase the laboratory exciting new resources and research results. | read more >>
"Powerful Blue Gene/P supercomputer at Argonne to address most-challenging science problems"
One of the world's fastest supercomputers will soon reside at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, thanks to a recently completed contract for the acquisition of a 445-teraflops IBM Blue Gene/P cluster. | read more >>
"ParaMEDIC Enables Worldwide Supercomputer for Bioinformatics"
ParaMEDIC, a general software-based framework for large-scale distributed computing developed by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Virginia Tech, will have a significant impact on the study of genomics. | read more >>
"Argonne's green Blue Gene/P gets more muscle to address most challenging scientific problems"
IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory today announced completion of a contract for a 445-teraflops Blue Gene/P system for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)... | read more >>
"Argonne National Lab Aquires First SiCortex SC5832"
SiCortex, the first company to engineer a Linux(R) cluster from the silicon up, today announced that the first production model of an SC5832, its flagship 5.8 teraflop system, will be installed at the U... | read more >>
"Fab Labs Make Manufacturing Personal"
Argonne National Laboratory, in conjunction with the University of Chicago, recently helped to launch a Fab Lab at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, and others may soon arrive both on site and at several locations in greater Chicagoland... | read more >>
"Greening the Meeting"
In the article "Greening the Meeting", Science magazine highlights the Access Grid as an alternative to travel for scientific conferences and meetings. | read more >>
"Rob Jacob to Participate on a Panel as Part of the Chicago Humanities Festival"
Rob Jacob, computational scientist, will participate in a panel on "The Truth of Images and Information" as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival's program "The Climate of Concern". The panel will discuss the role played by media in presenting information about global warming. | read more >>
"Supercomputing 2007 Storage Challenge Finalist"
MPICH2 (Argonne National Laboratory) and mpiBLAST (Virginia Tech) have collaborated using the ParaMEDIC framework to land a finalist slot in the SC07 storage challenge. MPICH2 powers ParaMEDIC (short for Parallel Metadata Environment for Distributed I/O and Computing), allowing it to accelerate mpiBLAST by as much as 25-fold in a distributed I/O and computing environment. | read more >>
"Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing"
The Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division of Argonne National Laboratory invites outstanding candidates to apply for the J. H. Wilkinson Fellowship in Scientific Computing. The appointment is for one year and may be renewed for another year... | read more >>
"Institute Addresses Computational Challenges Posed by Economic Models"
ICE2007 was the third in this annual series of computational economics workshops. Previous institutes have been only five days. The expanded program provided time for informal discussions as well as a poster session in which participants presented their current research. | read more >>
"Access Grid Connects Collaborators, Earns R&D; 100 Award"
After a vision nearly 10 years ago to build a system to enable group-to-group collaboration using scalable computing and networking technology, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have been honored with an R&D; 100 Award for their resulting product, Access Grid 3... | read more >>
"Ian Foster Named One of the Top Three Contributors to Computer Science"
Argonne researcher Ian Foster has been named one of the top three contributors to computer science, according to a recent article in Nature. The ranking is based on the so-called h-index, introduced by physicist Jorge Hirsch in 2005 to rank the quality of a researcher's work... | read more >>
"Mihai Anitescu Presents a Semi-Plenary Address at ICCOPT"
Mihai Anitescu, a computational mathematician at Argonne National Laboratory, will present a semi-plenary address at the Second Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on Continuous Optimization August 13-16, 2007, in Hamilton, Ontario... | read more >>
"Reactor Simulation Takes the Heat"
With a grant of 1 million processor hours from DOE's INCITE program, Argonne's Paul Fischer and fellow researchers are developing computer simulations of heat transfer in coolant flowing around tightly packed nuclear fuel rods. | read more >>
"Picture This: Visualization as a Tool for Data Analysis"
As science becomes increasingly digitized and data-based, visualization is set to become more and more important. Using visualization, Gaither and Papka can help scientists from all fields: medical science, cosmology, computational fluid dynamics, architecture, geosciences and meteorology... | read more >>
"Argonne Wins Three R&D; 100 Awards for Innovative Technologies"
The Access Grid is one of three Argonne projects to win R&D; Magazine's prestigious award this year. Access Grid 3 software enables groups of people to collaborate using open- source standards and Internet technology... | read more >>
"NEOS provides state-of-the-art optimization software over Internet"
Optimization technology is essential to engineers, scientists, businesses and even students. Optimization programs provide the answers to questions ranging from creating the most efficient allocation of resources to finding the healthiest meal at a fast food restaurant... | read more >>
"Two Papers by Argonne Researchers Selected as "Outstanding" in the EuroPVM/MPI Users"
Two papers by Argonne researchers have been selected as "Outstanding Papers" in the 14th annual EuroPVM/MPI Users' Group conference. The first paper, "Self-consistent MPI Performance Requirements" by Jesper Larsson Traff, William Gropp, and Rajeev Thakur, presents conditions that can be used by benchmarks and tools to automatically verify whether a given MPI implementation fulfills basic performance requirements... | read more >>
"Access Grid Wins R&D; 100 Award"
Researchers in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory have won an R&D; 100 award for Access Grid 3.0: Group Collaboration Software. The award is given annually by R&D; magazine to the year's most technologically significant new products... | read more >>
"Inaugural IBM Blue Gene/P system to expand Argonne Leadership Computing Facility"
Argonne National Laboratory, IBM, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced that IBM will soon be shipping its first external Blue Gene/P system to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)... | read more >>
"IBM Triples Performance of World"
IBM today announced Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the world's most powerful supercomputer. Blue Gene/P nearly triples the performance of its predecessor, Blue Gene/L - currently the world's fastest computer - while remaining the most energy-efficient and space-saving computing package ever built... | read more >>
"Jaydeep Bardhan Receives Howes Scholar Award in Computational Science"
Dr. Jaydeep Bardhan of Argonne National Laboratory has been named a Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science for 2007. Bardhan was one of two former CSGF fellows presented with the award at the 2007 CSGF Annual Fellows' Conference in Washington, D... | read more >>
"Interview: Rick Stevens, Computing and Life Sciences Directorate Lead, Argonne National Laboratory"
Rick Stevens, Computing and Life Sciences Directorate Lead at the Argonne National Laboratory and an internationally recognized expert who helps drive the national agenda on computing was interviewed by David Geer, ITworld... | read more >>
"Chiseling Away At the Mysteries of Life"
Evolution -- the very word makes some people uneasy. But researchers at Argonne National Laboratory aren't looking for a debate about science versus religion. They're focusing on a much smaller issue: the evolutionary analysis of microorganisms... | read more >>
"Catlett named Chief Information Officer at Argonne"
Charlie brings over two decades of information technology research, development, and management experience, most recently as Director of the National Science Foundation's nation-wide TeraGrid initiative and principal investigator of the TeraGrid's Grid Infrastructure Group, which is a distributed team that coordinates TeraGrid operations, planning, software integration, and architecture. | read more >>
"First Issue of ASCR Discovery Is Available"
The first issue of ASCR Discovery is now available online.
This is a new online magazine featuring stories about ASCR-supported research. Plans are to refresh parts of the magazine every two weeks, with a complete turnover every four to six weeks... | read more >>
"Stevens Named Argonne Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Life Sciences"
Rick Stevens has been appointed Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Life Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. | read more >>
"Ahmed Hassanein and Isak Konkashbaev Develop Plasma Formation Method"
Ahmed Hassanein, Isak Konkashbaev, and Bryan Rice have developed a method for plasma formation for extreme ultraviolet lithography-theta pinch. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent and has been assigned to U... | read more >>
"Scientists Compute Death Throes of White Dwarf Star in 3D"
In January, the Flash Center team for the first time naturally detonated a white dwarf in a more realistic three-dimensional simulation. The simulation confirmed what the team already suspected from previous tests: that the stars detonate in a supersonic process resembling diesel-engine combustion... | read more >>
"Rick Stevens: Connecting Computing to Science"
Perhaps the two most important technologies of the 21st century will be information technology and biotechnology. At Argonne National Laboratory, the Computing and Life Sciences (CLS) directorate is attempting to synergize these two technologies to fulfill the department's mission. | read more >>
"Papka named deputy associate laboratory director for Computing and Life Sciences at Argonne"
Mike Papka has been named deputy associate laboratory director for Computing and Life Sciences. Since joining Argonne in 1992, Mike has been actively involved in the development of collaboration technology and currently is co-director of the Futures Laboratory. | read more >>
"Three MCS Researchers Receive the 2007 DOE INCITE Awards"
Three MCS Division researchers -- Paul Fischer, Bill Gropp, and Rob Jacob -- have received DOE INCITE awards for 2007. | read more >>
"New Computer Software Enables Rapid Response to Time-critical Emergencies"
Argonne researchers demonstrated a new system, called SPRUCE (Special Priority and Urgent Computing Environment), at Supercomputing 2006 in November. The demonstration featured a hypothetical scenario in which immediate access was requested and granted to | read more >>
"Bill Gropp Named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery"
Congratulations to Bill Gropp, who was recently named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. This is ACM's most prestigious member grade, recognizing the top 1 percent of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community... | read more >>
"Outstanding Papers Selected at Euro PVM/MPI 2006 in Bonn, Germany"
Bill Gropp and Rajeev Thakur, coauthors of two papers selected as outstanding papers at Euro PVM/MPI 2006 in Bonn, Germany (out of a total of 3 outstanding papers). | read more >>
"Argonne's Ian Foster Wins Inaugural "Industry Leadership Award" from GridWorld"
Ian Foster of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is one of the winners of the first GridWorld "Industry Leadership Awards," presented today at the annual GridWorld conference in Washington, D... | read more >>
"Open Science Grid Receives Science Discovery from Advanced Compting (SciDAC) Funding for Department of Energy"
The Open Science Grid brings together a unique ensemble of domain scientists, software developers and providers of computing resources who share a common goal: to stimulate new discoveries by providing scientists with effective and dependable access to a national distributed computational facility. | read more >>
"Pavan Balaji Wins ISC'08 Winning Paper Award"
Pavan's paper, Distributed I/O with ParaMEDIC: Experiences with a Worldwide Supercomputer, was one of two papers to win the best paper award at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'08) in Dresden, Germany... | read more >>
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