Alliances

Through the U.S. Department of Energy's INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) program and the Blue Gene Consortium, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) has formed strong alliances with other national laboratories, research institutions, universities, and industry partners to facilitate breakthrough science and engineering through high-performance computing.

Each year, the INCITE program provides access to supercomputers at the ALCF and other national facilities to researchers with large-scale, computationally intensive projects in a variety of scientific disciplines. Furthermore, the program connects them with scientific and technical staff at these facilities. The staff, who are often scientists with a strong interest in computing, work closely with the INCITE researchers to maximize the scientific output from the computer runs.

Established jointly by Argonne and IBM, the Blue Gene Consortium provides a forum for technical information exchange and advanced software projects related to IBM's Blue Gene systems. Today, the Consortium has 71 member institutions from universities, national laboratories, and industrial laboratories in the United States and eight other countries.

 

BlueGene Consortium

formed by Argonne and IBM, April 2004

Focuses interest in the Blue Gene series
- Exploiting its potential for computational science.

Creates a framework for cooperation
- Developing applications, tools and systems software.
- Sharing operations and support strategies.
- Exchanging innovations and novel solutions.

Supports upcoming HPC needs
- Access to Argonne BG/L for evaluation.
- Blue Gene Watson days for 8-20 rack runs.
- Community participation in requirements for next generation systems.