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February 20, 2012
Hospitals 'need friendly bacteria'
Sterile conditions in wards and operating theatres may be doing more harm than good by wiping out organisms that keep dangerous microbes at bay, Dr. Jack Gilbert believes. Dr. Gilbert, who is British-born but based at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, said: "There's a good bacterial community living in hospitals and if you try to wipe out that good bacterial community with sterilisation agents and excessive antibiotic use you actually lay waste to this green field of protective layer...more info >
February 14, 2012
Inside the skull
Modeling the elements of blood flow in the brain could help neurosurgeons to predict when and where an aneurysm might rupture – and when to operate. Multiscale modeling of arterial blood flow can capture adhesion of red blood cells to the arterial wall, clot formation and other small-scale phenomena while capturing events at macro-scales – for instance, clot-induced changes in flow patterns...more info >
February 13, 2012
Rapid procedure for the exploration of molecules
By combining quantum chemistry with artificial intelligence (Machine Learning), researchers at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, achieved a scientific breakthrough expected to aid in exploring chemical compound space, i...more info >
February 10, 2012
Molecules from scratch without the fiendish physics
A suite of artificial intelligence algorithms may become the ultimate chemistry set. Software developed at Argonne can now quickly predict a property of molecules from their theoretical structure. Similar advances should allow chemists to design new molecules on computers instead of by lengthy trial-and-error.more info >
February 3, 2012
NSF funds Computational Modeling of Biomolecular Activity
Center for Multiscale Theory and Simulation funded by $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. CI faculty member Greg Voth will lead research to develop a computational infrastructure for simulating and studying biomolecular activity.more info >
February 3, 2012
Argonne signs MOU with Julich Research Centre
Argonne (UChicago Argonne, LLC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Jülich Research Centre) located in Jülich, Germany. The MOU was signed to promote scientific and technological cooperation in the field of supercomputing, especially in exascale supercomputing...more info >
February 1, 2012
INCITE Researchers Explore How Aircraft Contrails Can Impact Climate
Contrails are ice clouds that form by condensation of water vapor exhaust from aircraft engines and develop further in the aircraft wake as they are entrained by the airplane trailing vortices. When contrails spread to form cirrus clouds, they can persist for hours and extend over areas of several square kilometers...more info >
January 24, 2012
Argonne's Snir Honored as one of HPCwire's 'People to Watch' in 2012
Argonne National Laboratory’s Marc Snir has been named one of HPCwire’s “People to Watch” in 2012. These individuals are selected from leaders in academia, government, industry, and vendor communities, who HPCWire believes will influence of high-performance computing in the near future and beyond...more info >
January 19, 2012
Thawing tundra a new climate threat
A significant source of greenhouse gases has started leaking into the Earth's atmosphere from an unlikely place. Above the Arctic Circle, land frozen for tens of thousands of years has begun to thaw for the first time...more info >
January 17, 2012
Blue Waters, XSEDE Speakers to Headline GlobusWORLD 2012
Registration is now open for the 10th annual GlobusWORLD conference (April 10-12, 2012 at Argonne), featuring a program of prominent speakers including XSEDE and Blue Waters keynotes.more info >
