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Jun 11, 2013Allinea DDT Resolves an Unsolved Mystery at Argonne National LaboratoryAllinea.com Allinea DDT helps scientists find an “impossible” bug that showed up at over 16,000 cores at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. Computer scientists and... |
Jun 3, 2013Meet ALCF Catalyst Emily WoltersArgonne National Laboratory Nuclear Engineer Emily Wolters joined Argonne in 2011. She divides her time between Argonne’s Nuclear Engineering division and the Leadership Computing Facility, where she works as a catalyst. |
Jun 3, 2013Anatole von Lilienfeld Receives 2013 Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift AwardMaterials Views Dr. O. Anatole von Lilienfeld of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has been awarded the 2013 Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift prize of the “Computers in Chemistry” division of the ACS at the recent Spring National Meeting in New Orleans. In his talk, entitled “Quantum Machine:... |
May 1, 2013Computing Pioneer Honored at Big Red II DedicationInternational Science Grid This Week Computing pioneer and renowned computer scientist Paul Messina received high honors, as Indiana University president Michael McRobbie presented him with the distinguished Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion. “Paul Messina, Indiana University salutes you. Throughout your distinguished career, your... |
Apr 30, 2013Anatole von Lilienfeld Receives Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift AwardOpenEye OpenEye Scientific Software presented the Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift award to Dr. O. Anatole von Lilienfeld of Argonne National Laboratories at the 245th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans for his talk entitled: “Quantum Machine: Supervised Learning of Schrodinger’s equation in chemical... |
Apr 24, 2013Big Data Week Day 2: How Argonne is using supercomputer Mira to crunch mega-sized data to create visualizations from the formation of galaxies to aneurysmsWBEZ Blog: Day x Datum Joseph Insley, principal software development specialist at Argonne National Laboratory, gave a presentation about how the lab is using its supercomputer Mira to create visualizations that crunch data at a galactic size and monstrous computation speeds. Insley... |
Apr 4, 2013Time-Lapse Video Shrinks Birth of a Supercomputer to 3 MinutesWired.com What is a supercomputer? Nowadays, it’s many things. At research operations like the Argonne National Lab still build their own supercomputers just for running enormous calculations and simulations related to things like material science,... |
Mar 26, 2013Research out to optimize uncertain energy futureDOE ASCR Discovery Kernels When it comes to the power that keeps our lights on, our food cold and our computers and TVs operating, we don’t want to consider the what ifs: What if the power goes out? What if supply can’t keep up with demand? “We all know that once you go into what ifs, it’s a big set of what ifs,”... |
Mar 25, 2013Mira: Argonne's Next-Gen SupercomputerWired.com Mira, the new petascale IBM Blue Gene/Q system installed at the ALCF, will usher in a new era of scientific supercomputing. An engineering marvel, the 10-petaflops machine is capable of carrying out 10 quadrillion calculations per second. |
Feb 27, 2013Groundbreaking Astrophysics AcceleratedScientific Computing World Scientists who provide insights about the physical world, attempt to answer the “big” questions and address the complex problems of our time have a new high-performance computing (HPC) tool literally at their fingertips. One team of scientists taking advantage of this tool is investigating the... |