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DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and ...


Seeking efficiency, scientists run visualizations directly on supercomputers

Seeking efficiency, scientists run visualizations directly on supercomputers

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you wanted to perform a single run of a current model of the explosion of a star on your home computer, it would take more than three years just to download the data. In order to do cutting-edge ...


ALCF working to get more science per watt

ALCF working to get more science per watt

Technology / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P—called Intrepid—at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. ...


Leading-edge data analytics and visualization enable breakthrough science

Leading-edge data analytics and visualization enable breakthrough science

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most science research programs that run on high-performance computers like the IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) generate enormous quantities of ...


Graphics processing installation to boost Argonne's Blue Gene/P visualization capabilities

Graphics processing installation to boost Argonne's Blue Gene/P visualization capabilities

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, will soon have the data analytics ...