WIRED.com, the online content for Wired Magazine, is highlighting the SciDAC Top 10 Scientific Visualizations. These visualizations were selected at the annual Vis Night awards (the OASCRs), at the 2009 SciDAC conference.
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NERSC has chosen Cray Inc. to provide its next generation supercomputing system. The new system will ultimately deliver a peak performance of more than 1 PFlop/sec and will will help advance open scientific research.
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The winning of an R&D 100 award, often dubbed the “Oscars of invention,” provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government and academia and represents one of the most innovative ideas of the year.  This year, ASCR supported research garnered three of these coveted awards

PETSc (pronounced PET-see), a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of partial differential equations (PDEs), has won in the software category.  The PETSc team, lead by Barry Smith of Argonne National Laboratory, is part of the TOPS SciDAC project and also receives funding from the ASCR Base Math program. For more info about PETSc, see the following link:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc

ROSE, a compiler infrastructure, also won in the software category.  ROSE radically changes the accessibility of compiler technologies and enables users to build their own tools and easily develop progams for today"s fast changing hardware platform.  The ROSE group, led by Dr. Daniel J. Quinlan of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, receives funding from the ASCR Computer Science program.  For more info about ROSE, see: http://www.rosecompiler.org/

Catamount N-Way (CNW) lightweight kernel is an operating system that leverages hardware capabilities of multicore processors to deliver significant improvements in data access performance for today's parallel computing applications.  The Catamount team of Suzanne Kelly, John Van Dyke, and Courtenay Vaughan at Sandia National Laboratories, is supported by ASCR and built on work supported by the NNSA-ASC program.

For a complete list of R&D 100 winners, see this link:
http://www.rdmag.com/RD100Home.html.

ASCR supported researchers Cecilia Aragon and Alexandre Tartakovsky (who is also supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program) were among the 100 researchers named last week by President Barack Obama to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on early-career researchers. Together with two other young scientists from LBNL, Cecilia will receive her award in the fall at a White House ceremony.

In announcing the awards, President Obama said: “These extraordinarily gifted young scientists and engineers represent the best in our country.  With their talent, creativity, and dedication, I am confident that they will lead their fields in new breakthroughs and discoveries and help us use science and technology to lift up our nation and our world.”

For more information about Cecilia and her work, select this link, to see the LBNL press release, select this link.  For more information about Alex and his work, please select this link.

The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet 4) is an Excellence.Gov Award winner for enhancing government transparency. The winners were announced in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 2009 and ESnet 4 won in the category of "application of technology".  The Excellence.Gov Awards Program was established by the American Council for Technology/Industry Advisory Council to recognize the best practices in the federal government's management and use of information technology.
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Engaging science communities to discuss scientific grand challenges and the role of scientific computing

ASCR is planning, in partnership with the other Science programs, a series of collaborative meetings, each focusing on the grand challenges of a specific scientific domain and the role for scientific computing in addressing those challenges.
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