Experimentalists from all over the world visit Argonne each year to use the ultra-bright X-ray photon beams produced here to peer inside materials. Research teams with beamline reservations, or ‘beamtime,’ are expected to set up, calibrate the detector, and man…
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…
Digitized museum collections are the next ‘big data’ dataset The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago holds a massive pinned insect collection of roughly 4.5 million specimens, dating back at least a century and contributed by entomologists and private…
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…
In 2015, IEEE VIS will be held in Chicago for the first time ever. One of my first duties as general chair for VIS 2015 was to help secure the venue — and I’m delighted to announce that we now…
Each year, the DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research program, or ASCR, dedicates roughly 30% of the computing resources at its three supercomputing facilities to projects pursuing DOE mission research. The yearlong ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) awards, which begin July…