ALCF 'In The News'
October 28, 2009
International Science Grid
"Feature - In case of emergency, call SPRUCE"
When disaster strikes, simulations could give authorities the information they need to save lives. But simulations are computationally intensive, and during a crisis, there’s no time to wait in line for access to computer resources. That’s where urgent computing comes in.
“What you really want is to be able to hook together or have access to all the supercomputers that you need, wherever they are,” said Pete Beckman, project lead for TeraGrid’s Special PRiority and Urgent Computing Environment, or SPRUCE. “The purpose of this sort of urgent computing infrastructure is to design and create the infrastructure before it’s needed.” | read more>
October 15, 2009
EDL Consulting
"Department of Energy announces $32-million grant to study cloud computing benefits for scientific research"
Cloud computing has the potential to accelerate discoveries and enhance collaborations in everything from optimizing energy storage to analyzing data from climate research, while conserving energy and lowering operational costs," said Pete Beckman, director of Argonne's leadership computing facility and project lead. "We know that the model works well for business applications, and we are working to make it equally effective for science. | read more>
October 14, 2009
UPI.com
"Cloud computing science capability studied"
Pete Beckman, who is leading the cloud computing project. "We know the model works well for business applications, and we are working to make it equally effective for science." | read more>
October 7, 2009
HPCWire
"DOE Labs Take Pride in Award-Winning IBM Blue Gene Series"
The IBM Blue Gene series of energy-efficient supercomputers, central to breakthrough scientific research around the world, will be singled out by President Barack Obama as a Medal of Technology and Innovation award-winner on Oct. 7 in Washington, D.C.
When IBM accepts this well-deserved honor, computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories can take pride in their role in making these computers a reality. | read more>
September 25, 2009
Processor
"Tracking Green IT"
Eighty percent of the power that a device uses is actually consumed during its manufacture,” explains Bob Houghton, president and CEO of Redemtech, an IT and asset disposition company. “Energy-efficient computing devices are great, but if you retire a perfectly good piece of equipment prematurely, your net consumption of power will actually go up. | read more>
August 31, 2009
Chicago Sun-TImes
"Argonne's New Center Really Computes: National Lab Gets Lots More Elbow Room for Scientists"
In many ways, Argonne National Laboratory's new Theory and Computing Sciences building might remind you of your own office building: a first-floor coffee bar, neat rows of cubicles, conference rooms scattered throughout the floors.
But the gaggle of lightning-fast computer processors and adjoining football field-sized cooling room are a quick reminder of the mind-bending work poised to happen here. | read more>
August 31, 2009
Chicago Sun-Times
"Argonne's New Center Really Computes: National Lab Gets Lots More Elbow Room for Scientists"
In many ways, Argonne National Laboratory's new Theory and Computing Sciences building might remind you of your own office building: a first-floor coffee bar, neat rows of cubicles, conference rooms scattered throughout the floors.
But the gaggle of lightning-fast computer processors and adjoining football field-sized cooling room are a quick reminder of the mind-bending work poised to happen here. | read more>
August 12, 2009
Science Daily
"Combustion Simulation: Digital Fireworks"
Researchers from ETH Zurich have simulated autoignition in a turbulent flow using a supercomputer with up to 65,000 processors in one of the largest reactive flow simulations to date. The results could help to develop better models and reduce the high cost of real experiments. | read more>
April 14, 2009
HPCwire
"ALCF Working to Get More Science Per Watt"
Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P--called Intrepid--at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. Though Intrepid is one of the fastest and most energy-efficient computers in the world, researchers at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) are continually looking for ways to further reduce the power needed to operate the machine. | read more>
April 13, 2009
R&D magazine
"Blue Gene/P's New GPU Turns It into a Visual Powerhouse"
Nicknamed Eureka, an installation of NVIDIA Quadro Plex S4 external GPUs at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) allows researchers to better understand the data they produce with Intrepid at the ALCF. The powerful installation provides more than 111 teraflops and more than 3.2 terabytes of RAM. | read more>
