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Jan 27, 2012New Center Developing Computational Bioresearch ToolNewswise |
Jan 12, 2012DOE Awards Record Supercomputing Time to UC San Diego, SDSC ResearchersNewswise Scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and other areas of the University of California, San Diego, conducting research in physics, computer science, earth science, and engineering, together were awarded an all-time high of more than a quarter billion hours in supercomputing... |
Jan 4, 2012Watering the flopsThe Economist Pete Beckman, who leads Argonne's effort to break the exaflops (a billion billion flops) barrier, says that supercomputing, though of little direct relevance to most computer users, is always the first to grapple with many problems that bedevil hardware in data centres, desktops and mobile... |
Dec 29, 2011Formal Analysis of MPI-based Parallel ProgramsCommunications of the ACM Most parallel computing applications in high-performance computing use the Message Passing Interface (MPI) API. Given the fundamental importance of parallel computing to science and engineering research, application correctness is paramount. MPI was originally developed around 1993 by the MPI... |
Dec 20, 2011Congress funds exascale computerFierce Government The Energy Department is set to receive full funding for development of a supercomputer three orders of magnitude more powerful than today's most powerful computer--an exascale computer. Under a set of consolidated spending bills for the current fiscal year known as an omnibus, DOE would be able... |
Dec 14, 2011Artificial Intelligence for Quantum ChemistryChemistry World |
Dec 5, 2011Top Hair-Raising Research MomentsWBEZ Clever Apes WBEZ's Gabriel Spitzer recently moderated a conversation among four scientists from local institutions, all of whom worked in rather unconventional "labs"--including Argonne research meteorologist Doug Sisterson. |
Dec 5, 2011What a Simple Flame Can Tell Us About SupernovaeDiscovery News Using detailed computer simulations, physicists have been studying one critical transition in particular that could not only improve safety in industrial settings, but could also shed light into the mysterious processes behind Type 1a supernovae. |
Nov 17, 2011IBM's Blue Gene/Q; petaflops on low powerEE Times Perhaps the most poorly kept secret at SC11 was IBM’s official unveiling of its next generation Blue Gene/Q (BGQ) supercomputer, the third generation in its Blue Gene family, with 16 multi-processing core technology and a scalable peak performance of up to 100 petaflops. Unveiling the BGQ on the... |
Nov 16, 2011IBM pushes BlueGene/Q to 100 petaflopsThe Register In February 2009, IBM announced that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the US Department of Energy's supercomputing centers, was shelling big bucks to build a 20 petaflops machine that is now known as BlueGene/Q. LLNL is where the first two BlueGene many-cored parallel monsters... |