The discovery last year at CERN of the Higgs boson — a particle that may well be responsible for all the mass in the universe — was momentous to physicists everywhere. The revelation of Higgs is critical to validating a…
Argonne Activities at SC12
Strong ALCF showing at SC13
The highly competitive technical program of the annual Supercomputing conference shows broad participation from ALCF researchers this year. Several papers coauthored by ALCF researchers were accepted — one of which is also a finalist for the ACM Gordon Bell Prize…
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Accelerating the discovery of alternative fuel sources
In many ways, biofuel research is like modern day alchemy. The transmutation of biomass materials — which includes anything from kitchen and latrine waste to stalky, non-edible plants — into a sustainable and renewable energy source involves catalysts and chemical…
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Extreme-Scale Computing Training Course: Class of 2013!
Today I met with the first class of young scientists and researchers to participate in the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. The trainees are now into week two of lectures and hands-on sessions aimed at teaching them how to…
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Expanding the community, accelerating mission-critical research
Summertime, specifically July 1, is when the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) projects get underway at the Leadership Computing Facilities at Argonne and Oak Ridge, and at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The supercomputing centers will support…
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Cracking the source of crackle in supersonic jet noise
The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge projects that make up roughly 30% of the time awarded on ALCF supercomputers each year go to support “high-risk, high-payoff” simulations of interest to the DOE. Stanford’s Parviz Moin used his 60 million hour award…
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