An IIT student team placed fourth in an annual 48-hour competition that challenges young computer scientists to tune and run a series of high-performance computing codes, non-stop, on a small cluster they build from their own design. The team of…
Yearly Archives: 2015
IIT team competes, surges in annual cluster challenge
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Argonne coding campers, class of 2015
In July, I participated in Argonne’s first summer coding camp, a computer science education opportunity attended by 42 local high school students and organized in partnership with the DuPage County chapter of the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO).…
Posted in Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Education
Cooley: more memory, faster results
Today at ALCF, a powerful new cluster with terabytes of RAM and GPU memory stands ready to meet our user community’s data analysis needs. Cooley, the follow-on system to Tukey, will support more exploration capabilities, including in-situ analysis and unprecedented…
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Aurora is coming. Step one: Theta
After much anticipation, the Department of Energy recently announced that industry partners Intel and Cray would be delivering Argonne’s next supercomputer, Aurora. The new system will be a first-of-its-kind product from the market-leading chipmaker and the renowned computer manufacturer, and…
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Summer training to the extreme
Applications are now being accepted for two noteworthy summer training programs in Chicago aimed at cultivating future computational scientists. Both opportunities offer intensive, hands-on training on multiple topics, and access to leading experts currently working in the extreme-scale computing space.…
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Happy New Year!
New Frontiers in Leadership Computing, part two of the CiSE Special Issue on Leadership Computing, is out and features four more boundary-pushing examples of research at the high-end of scientific computing: a scalable solver for aerospace industry work, a novel…
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