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A step back into physics, by way of computing

On interdisciplinary work, the way careers loop back to old interests, and a DOE training grant that lands me close to where I started.

January 15, 2023  ·  2 min read

award

What science looks like when the silos come down

On the next decade of computational science, where simulation, data, and AI stop living in separate buildings, and what a Gordon Bell prize signals about that direction.

November 29, 2022  ·  2 min read

funding

Teaching the systems by letting students touch them

On the limits of pure lecture mode for data systems and advanced computing, and what changes when students can actually run the thing.

August 25, 2022  ·  2 min read

media

Outreach, art, and three minutes of radio

On the value of public outreach, the discipline of three-minute formats, and why STEAM's A is doing real work.

February 11, 2022  ·  2 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

IIT team competes, surges in annual cluster challenge

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… Read more ›

December 15, 2015  ·  1 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Education

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).… Read more ›

August 28, 2015  ·  1 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

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… Read more ›

June 3, 2015  ·  1 min read