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June 18, 2012
Crain's Chicago Business
"Latest ranking of supercomputers puts Argonne's Mira at No. 3"
Argonne National Laboratory's new supercomputer is the third-most powerful in the world, according to a new ranking. The supercomputer, named Mira, which is being installed in a new computer lab at the federal research lab in Darien, took the No. 3 spot on the Top500 List of supercomputers released today.
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June 18, 2012
Computerworld
"U.S. regains supercomputing crown, bests China, Japan"
The U.S., once again, is home to the world's most powerful supercomputer after being knocked off the list by China two years ago and Japan last year. Argonne National Laboratory installed a similar IBM system, which ranks third on the new Top 500 list. | read more>
June 18, 2012
Scientific American
"Captain of Crunch: U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Watchdog Boasts Fastest Supercomputer in the West–or Anywhere Else, for That Matter"
The U.S. Department of Energy supercomputer standing watch over the nation’s nuclear arsenal was crowned the world’s fastest supercomputer Monday at the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. The ascension of Sequoia—run by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)—on the TOP500 list of the supercomputers marks the first time since November 2009 that a U.S. system has reached the global performance pinnacle. Argonne National Laboratory’s Mira supercomputer, also an IBM BlueGene/Q system, debuted in the TOP500′s third spot with about 8.2 petaflops per second using more than 786,000 cores. | read more>
June 18, 2012
Forbes
"IBM Now Has The World's Fastest Supercomputer"
Today, the International Supercomputing Conference will announce that IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer is the fastest supercomputer in the world. It’s LINPACK benchmark rating is 16.32 petaflop/s. That’s 55% faster than the Fujitsu K computer, which benchmarked at 10.51 petaflop/s. Taking the number 3 spot is another IBM computer, the Mira supercomputer, an IBM BlueGene/Q system at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, which benchmarked at 8.15 petaflop/s. | read more>
June 14, 2012
BBC News
"Milk fats may alter gut bacteria causing bowel diseases"
The rise of inflammatory bowel diseases could be down to our shifting diets causing a "boom in bad bacteria", according to US researchers.
Mouse experiments detailed in the journal Nature linked certain fats, bacteria in the gut and the onset of inflammatory diseases. The researchers said the high-fat diet changed the way food was digested and encouraged harmful bacteria. Microbiologists said modifying gut bacteria might treat the disease. | read more>
May 16, 2012
HPCwire
"DOE INCITE Program to Allocate Titan, Mira Compute Resources"
2013 promises to be a landmark year for DOE’s Leadership Computing Program and INCITE: two new systems, ORNL's Titan and Argonne's Mira, will be available to researchers. These two facilities are preparing to award up to 5 billion core hours next year, a three-fold increase compared to 2012. | read more>
May 15, 2012
UChicago News
"Scholars, scientists explore cosmos and culture at Adler Planetarium event"
“Cosmos and Culture” — the fifth in a series of Joint Speaker events for UChicago faculty and scientists, researchers and engineers from Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory took place April 18 event at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Salman Habib, senior physicist and computational scientist at Argonne, and senior fellow of the Argonne/UChicago Computation Institute, participated in the panel discussion. | read more>
May 14, 2012
Argonne National Laboratory
"Argonne, Universities partner to design advanced materials"
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory today announced major new efforts with Northwestern University and the University of Chicago to advance the research and development of new materials to help solve the nation’s challenges in the fields of energy, health and security. The aim of the collaborations is to strengthen Chicago’s regional “innovation ecosystem” by linking experts in every aspect of advanced materials science and providing them with direct access to the world’s most advanced tools for materials discovery and characterization. The plans articulated by Isaacs include the expansion of the joint Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Technology to incorporate materials research emphasis and capabilities and, separately, the introduction of new collaborative programs with the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago focused on leading-edge materials research. In addition, industry partners are expected to play key roles in the collaborations. IME’s interdisciplinary setting is ideal for developing this powerful new approach to engineering research and education. Argonne’s leadership computing facilities will allow the properties of materials to be predicted with unprecedented accuracy and can serve as the archive for the community’s experimental and simulation results. This computational effort draws upon the faculty of the University of Chicago through the joint Computation Institute. | read more>
May 14, 2012
Crain's Chicago Business
"Argonne to work with Northwestern, U of C on materials science research"
Argonne National Laboratory announced plans to collaborate more closely with Northwestern University and the University of Chicago to speed up discovery of new materials. The joint Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering will include a materials research emphasis, as well as new materials research programs with the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.
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May 11, 2012
Market Watch
"Allstate Insurance Company, Gogo, Ian Foster Among Winners at 13th Annual ITA CityLIGHTS Award"
The Illinois Technology Association (ITA) is honored to announce the winners of the 2012 ITA CityLIGHTS Awards. University of Chicago Computation Institute director Ian Foster won the Technologist of the Year Award. This award is presented to the individual "whose talent has championed true technology innovation, either through new application of existing technology or the development of technology to achieve a truly unique product or service." | read more>
