News & Announcements
"Brochure Highlights Scientific Discovery with the World's Fastest Open Science Computer"
A new brochure highlights a collection of research projects using one of the newest devices to aid discovery, the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer named Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Intrepid is currently the fastest computer in the world for open science and was also ranked third fastest overall, according to the semiannual TOP500 list of the world's fastest computers. "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. Argonne awarded GraphStream, Inc., Belmont, Calif., a contract that will help to make data analytics and visualization at this scale possible through the world's largest installation of NVIDIA S4 external graphics processing units (GPU). This new supercomputer, nicknamed Eureka, will allow researchers to explore and visualize the data they produce with Intrepid. The powerful installation will offer 104 dual quad core servers with 208 Quadro FX5600 GPUs in the S4s. Argonne made the announcement at SciDAC 2008 in Seattle, Wash.
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"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. The initiative fosters interdisciplinary research on the economic, environmental and geopolitical aspects of energy use. | more info >>
"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). "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.M., ’70). These plans include construction of the Center for Physical and Computational Sciences, an initiative in applied mathematics and computation, and greatly expanded programs in genomics and personalized medicine, and in the neurosciences. The University also is considering a faculty proposal to establish a new molecular engineering institute.
The Center will house the Computation Institute, the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and part of the James Franck Institute, along with the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Department of Computer Science. "Newly described 'dragon' protein by IGSB Fellow could be key to bird flu cure"
An IGSB Fellow is among the researchers who have taken a big step closer to a cure for the most common strain of avian influenza, or "bird flu," the potential pandemic that has claimed more than 200 lives and infected nearly 400 people in 14 countries since it was identified in 2003. | more info >>
"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. "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. The paper was one of two papers to be selected for the award.
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"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.
The Top500 List was announced today during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. | more info >>
"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 5.7 teraflops. It has been instrumental in expanding the boundaries of scientific computing since February 2006. "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. | more info >>
"Argonne-University of Chicago joint venture bolsters genomic sequencing capabilities"
The Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology (IGSB), a joint venture of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, has acquired two new instruments that provide an enhanced ability to sequence genomes more quickly and broadly. | more info >>
"INCITE Proposal Writing Webinar"
Half a billion processing hours are available through DOE's INCITE program this year. Our June 20th Proposal Writing webinar can help you stake your claim. Sign up today – proposals are due August 11!
Join Ray Bair, Argonne's Senior Computational Scientist, as he provides tips and suggestions to improve the quality of your INCITE proposal submission. | more info >>
"IGSB - The Future of Complex Disease"
Nestled between a world-renowned department of biology and an equally established university hospital, the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology at the University of Chicago has the best of both worlds. A collaboration between the university and Argonne National Laboratory, the DOE's premier supercomputing hotspot some 40 miles west of Chicago, the institute is poised to lead the way for translational science and metagenomics research. | more info >>
"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. | more info >>
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In the News
June 9, 2009
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
"Argonne-University of Chicago joint venture bolsters genomic sequencing capabilities"
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Chicago Sun-Times
"World's No. 3 Computer Resides at Argonne Lab"
| read more> June 7, 2008
itworldcanada.com
"Cloud Computing Needs Rainmakers"
| read more> April 23, 2008
Claredon Hills.com
"Mind-blowing Blue Gene/P revs up at Argonne"
| read more> April 22, 2008
Southtown Star
"Big, Bad Blue Gene"
| read more> April 22, 2008
Medill Reports
"Deep in the Woods, a Computer Roars"
| read more> April 21, 2008
Chicago Public Radio, Eight Forty-Eight
"Argonne Lab's New Supercomputer"
| read more> April 11, 2008
HPCwire
"SiCortex Gets Personal"
| read more> April 11, 2008
HPCwire
"SiCortex Gets Personal"
| read more> March 26, 2008
LabTechnologist.com
"Metagenomics indicates changes in microbial communities"
| read more> March 3, 2008
Columbia Spectator Online
"A New Format For Global Academic Research"
| read more> February 22, 2008
Chicago Maroon
"Bill Gates talks tech at GSB"
| read more> February 22, 2008
Chicago Maroon
"Bill Gates talks tech at GSB"
| read more> January 10, 2008
InfoWorld
"Of Grids and Clouds"
| read more> December 10, 2007
WebWire
"Argonne, UIC Researchers Get the Dirt on Prairie Soil"
| read more> December 6, 2007
WebWire
"New Theory and Computing Sciences Building to be constructed at Argonne National Laboratory"
| read more> December 3, 2007
FirstScience.Com
" Argonne's Blue Gene/P gets more muscle to address most challenging scientific problems"
| read more> December 3, 2007
Washington Post
"Faster Computers Accelerate Pace of Discovery"
| read more> November 26, 2007
HPCWire
"Argonne, Virginia Tech Win Storage Challenge Competition"
| read more> November 15, 2007
HPCWire
"SC07 Analytics Challenge First Place Awarded to ANGLE"
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