Apr 18, 2012New institute to tackle "data tsunami" challengeARGONNE, Ill.—Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have received part of a planned $25 million grant from the... |
Apr 17, 2012How cloud storage could catch up with big dataFederal Computer This Week Cloud computing has managed to make the world’s already colossal appetite for data storage even more voracious. Last year, IDC, an IT market research firm, cited public cloud-based service providers, from Amazon Web Services to YouTube, as the most significant drivers of storage... |
Apr 10, 2012The Processors of PetascaleHPCWire While the supercomputing digerati argue about what an exascale machine will look like at the end of this decade, recent history suggests that there will be a healthy diversity of designs, at least with regard to processor architecture. As of this week, there are 20 known petascale systems... |
Apr 6, 2012Pursuing protons for medical imagingsymmetry A new kind of detector technology that could lead to discoveries in particle physics may also lead to better 3D images of the human body and help cancer patients. Continuing a tradition of collaboration between particle physics and medicine, researchers from Northern... |
Mar 29, 2012Supercomputers help explain why Universe has almost no anti-matterThe University of Edinburgh School of Physics & Astronomy Powerful supercomputers have shed light on the behaviour of key sub-atomic particles, in a development that could help explain why there is almost no anti-matter in the Universe. An international collaboration of scientists, including physicists from the... |
Mar 9, 2012The Creative Fundraiser: The Many Roles for the Postdoc in Search of SupportScience One of the most important skills to demonstrate in a postdoc appointment is the ability to acquire funding. Whether it is in the form of grants, fellowships, or out-right gifts, postdocs have to find ways to bring in the bucks, not only to keep their own research enterprise humming, but also to... |
Feb 10, 2012Molecules from Scratch without the Fiendish PhysicsNew Scientist A SUITE of artificial intelligence algorithms may become the ultimate chemistry set. Software can now quickly predict a property of molecules from their theoretical structure. Similar advances should allow chemists to design new... |
Jan 31, 2012Fast and Accurate Modeling of Molecular Atomization Energies with Machine LearningPhysical Review Letters We introduce a machine learning model to predict atomization energies of a diverse set of organic molecules, based on nuclear charges and atomic positions only. The problem of solving the molecular Schrödinger equation is mapped onto a nonlinear statistical regression problem of reduced... |
Jan 31, 2012Ten million billion and countingThe Economist In 1961 John F. Kennedy declared that America would put a man on the moon and the space race was officially on. No one ever formally declared a supercomputing race, but Mike Papka, who heads the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, points to the... |
Jan 27, 2012What It'll Take to Go ExascaleScience Magazine Scientists hope the next generation of supercomputers will carry out a million trillion operations per second. But first they must change the way the machines are built and run. Using real climate data, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California recently ran... |
