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August 5, 2011
Globus Online Surpasses 1,000-User Milestone
The Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory announced this week that Globus Online, the service for secure, reliable data movement, signed up over 1000 users in its first six months of service...more info >
August 4, 2011
INCITE Releases Greatest Hits Compilation
INCITE, which is managed by Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory's Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, recently released a compilation report of their “greatest hits”—a string of research achievements powered by INCITE-granted access to petascale systems...more info >
August 3, 2011
Italian academia is a family business, statistical analysis reveals
Unusually high clustering of last names within Italian academic institutions and disciplines indicates widespread nepotism in the country's schools, according to a new computational analysis. By comparing the frequency of last names among more than 61,000 professors in medicine, engineering, law, and other fields, University of Chicago researcher Stefano Allesina found the pattern to be incompatible with unbiased, equal opportunity hiring...more info >
July 29, 2011
The latest issue of ALCF Newsbytes now available
Please click here for the lastest issue of ALCF Newsbytesmore info >
July 29, 2011
Recapping Secretary Chu's Visit to Argonne
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu visited Argonne in June to participate in a groundbreaking event for the new Energy Sciences Building. The Secretary took time out to meet with several resident researchers, including Jeff Hammond, one of the ALCF's assistant computational scientists...more info >
July 22, 2011
Argonne-UChicago computational epilepsy research project featured on WTTW
Argonne's Mark Hereld discussed his computation-based epilepsy research on the July 19 "Scientific Chicago" segment of WTTW’s program Chicago Tonight. The segment also profiled his collaborator Wim van Drongelen, professor of Pediatrics, Neurology and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Chicago...more info >
July 20, 2011
Shedding Light on High-Energy Physics
A group of researchers at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have been granted 80 million processor hours at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to better understand the interaction of these subatomic particles as they collide with the four fundamental forces of nature.more info >
July 7, 2011
Getting to know bacteria with 'multiple personalities'
Andrzej Joachimiak and his colleagues at Argonne's Structural Biology Center, the NIH-funded Midwest Center for Structural Genomics and the University of Chicago recently studied one particular phenomenon in cyanobacteria known as "heterocyst differentiation...more info >
July 7, 2011
National Laboratories and Universities Team up to Build a Community Systems Biology Knowledgebase
The DOE Office of Science (SC) announced today the selection of a collaboration of top scientists from across the Nation to lead development of a computer-based Systems Biology Knowledgebase for the scientific community that is designed to advance understanding of microbes and plants for energy and environmental solutions.more info >
July 6, 2011
Argonne Researcher Receives Early Career Research Award
Jeffrey Greeley, an assistant materials scientist in the Theory and Modeling group at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne recently received an Early Career Research Award from the Department of Energy (DOE)...more info >
