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…
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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).…
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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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CiSE publishes first issue dedicated to Leadership Computing
Advances in Leadership Computing, the first of a two-part CiSE Special Issue on Leadership Computing, is now available online. In two consecutive publications, this special issue will explore nine projects that are using leadership systems to expand the frontiers of…
Improved Cetus development system enables new HPC use cases
Mira’s testing and development system, a Blue Gene/Q called Cetus, has grown to 4 racks to allow users to debug their project code at an even larger scale before moving to Mira. This upgrade will support new types of HPC…
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