April 2008
ASCR Monthly News Roundup
The latest survey of computing news of interest to ASCR was compiled by Jon Bashor (JBashor@lbl.gov) with news provided by Argonne, Fermi, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest and Sandia National labs. Contact information and links to additional information, where available, are included with each article.
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December 19, 2008
ASCR Recognizes PECASE Award Winner
Washington DC — The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) awards are intended to recognize some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge during the twenty-first century.  ASCR is proud to recognize Fiscal Year 2007 PESACE award winner, Bert Debusschere, of Sandia National Laboratories, for introducing rigorous mathematical methods capturing stochastic uncertainties in computational biology and providing a framework for simulation-based discovery; and for service to the Sandia Diversity Council and Foreign National Networking Group.
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November 18, 2008
DOE-Humanities Projects Announced
Washington DC — Last year, the DOE announced a partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities to facilitate access to high performance computing resources for research in the Humanities.  At the Supercomputing 2008 conference in Austin, Texas the Endowment announced the winners of the program. The goal of the program is to provide opportunities for humanities scholars whose research requires high performance computing to collaborate with computer scientists and others at centers already familiar with the challenges of intensive data mining, visualization, and other demanding applications.  For additional information about the about the program, follow this link>

November 10, 2008
DOE’s Oak Ridge Supercomputer Now World’s Fastest for Open Science
Oak Ridge TN — DOE’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is home to the world’s first petaflop supercomputer dedicated to open scientific research.  The new petaflops machine will make it possible to address some of the most challenging scientific problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion.  Annually, 80 percent of Jaguar's resources are allocated through DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, a competitively selected, peer reviewed process open to researchers from universities, industry, government and non-profit organizations.
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October 27, 2008
U.S. Energy Department Streamlines Access to High-Tech User Facilities at DOE National Laboratories
Oak Ridge TN — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Technology Transfer Coordinator, Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, announced today two new model agreements that will expand access to DOE’s world-class research facilities by academia and industry.  The streamlined agreements will also simplify the process for gaining access to DOE facilities and promote the transfer of cutting-edge technologies from DOE national laboratories.
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September 10, 2008
ESnet Helps Distribute LHC Data
Washington DC — ESnet helps researchers seeking the Origins of Matter.The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will produce an enormous amount of data and in the forefront of providing researchers access to that data is ESnet.  ESnet foresaw this data challenge years ago and developed ESnet 4, a new large-scale science data transport network with enough bandwidth to transport the expected massive amounts of data.
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September 8, 2008
NOAA’s Climate Change Models Granted Run Time
on ASCR Supercomputers
Intrepid, Jaguar and Franklin, three of ASCR's premier supercomputers, will be utilized by the Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to explore advanced climate change models.  10 million hours of computing time will be made available for collaborative climate research on the three world-class supercomputers under a three-year agreement signed by DOE and NOAA.
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August 22, 2008
Hope for those with Parkinson’s
Washington DC — At least half a million people in the U.S. are believed to suffer from Parkinson’s and about 50,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke reports.  A research team has performed a detailed computer simulation on how certain proteins damage cell membranes and create pores, which in the case of Parkinson's disease, can lead debilitating systems that worsen over time.  The research simulation, which generated a promising lead for a treatment, was performed with a grant of 1.2 million processor hours on the Blue Gene/P at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory through the ASCR Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
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August, 2008
Carl Edward Oliver - 1943-2008
The Office of Science and its Office of Advanced Scientific Computing research (ASCR) were saddened by the loss of Carl Edward Oliver, a former Associate Director of ASCR.
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