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October 31, 2012
Research moves at the speed of availability
A suite of Argonne-supported tools has been widely adopted by researchers to store and analyze microbial data. The Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology (RAST) server is a fully automated service providing high quality genome annotations for an incredibly diverse assortment of prokaryotes (bacteria and Archaeans)...more info >
October 29, 2012
Supercomputing Award of 4.7 Billion Hours to Accelerate Discovery, Innovation
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Leadership Computing Facilities (LCFs) have awarded a combined 4.7 billion supercomputing core hours to 61 science and engineering projects with high potential for accelerating discovery and innovation through its INCITE program...more info >
October 19, 2012
The Minimal Microbe
Argonne and three other national laboratories are collaborating to build a research tool called the Systems Biology Knowledgebase, or “KBase,” to study microbes and the complex communities they form in the environment...more info >
October 10, 2012
Mobile Lab Set to Study Clouds' Influence on Weather and Climate
Some new cargo is officially sailing today between Los Angeles and Honolulu, part of an atmospheric research expedition to understand how clouds influence weather patterns around the world. The 892-foot Spirit, a container ship owned by Horizon Lines, is now home to a Department of Energy mobile laboratory designed to study the atmosphere...more info >
October 10, 2012
Argonne-Sponsored Meeting Showcases Scientific Advances in Soil Metagenomics
More than 140 researchers from the United States, Canada, Brazil, Asia (Taiwan), and Europe (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain) gathered at the Indian Lakes Resort near Chicago to participate in the 4th Annual Argonne Soil Metagenomics meeting October 3–5...more info >
October 8, 2012
Computation Institute Joins Collaboration to Unlock the Long Tail of Science
A vast amount of scientific knowledge is inaccessible to the scientific community due to the lack of computational resources or tools for small laboratories to share or analyze experimental results. With a new grant from the National Science Foundation, the Computation Institute will collaborate with leading institutions to look for ways that software can bring this data out of hiding, revealing untapped value in the “long tail” of scientific research...more info >
October 8, 2012
MSD and MCS form SciDAC-3 Application Partnership for large-scale computational optimization of superconductors
Researchers in Argonne’s Materials Science Division and Mathematics and Computer Science Division have received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct a five-year study titled “Optimizing Superconductor Transport Properties through Large-Scale Simulation...more info >
October 2, 2012
Argonne researchers play major role in optimization symposium in Berlin
Researchers from Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division played a major role in the 2012 International Symposium on Mathematical Programming. The symposium, which takes place every three years on behalf of the Mathematical Optimization Society, is the world congress of mathematical optimization...more info >
October 1, 2012
Synthetic Universes: How Simulations Will Help the Search for Dark Energy
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is one of the most ambitious astrophysics experiments ever launched. Read how CI fellow Andrey Kravtsov and Matthew Becker are supporting the project with computer simulations modeling the evolution of the matter distribution in the universe.more info >
October 1, 2012
Yearlong climate study launches
A Horizon Lines container ship outfitted with meteorological and atmospheric instruments installed by DOE scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will begin taking data today for a yearlong mission aimed at improving the representation of clouds in climate models...more info >
