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Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Education

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… Read more ›

August 6, 2013  ·  2 min read

Education Musings

From Lego bricks to C++: promoting computational thinking skills in U.S. schools

TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools) is a nonprofit tech-literacy teaching program that grew out of Microsoft engineer Kevin Wang’s desire to teach computer science in his spare time. Microsoft liked it, funded it, and made Wang its chief… Read more ›

July 29, 2013  ·  2 min read

Art

Exploring energy themes artistically

This summer Argonne is hosting ART ENERGY FUTURE, a collaborative contemporary art exhibit curated in connection with a 2012 United Nations global awareness campaign about the importance of increasing sustainable access to energy, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. The traveling… Read more ›

July 26, 2013  ·  2 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

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… Read more ›

July 19, 2013  ·  1 min read

Research

Parallel GPGPU application takes aim at tumors

Protons, specifically proton beams, are increasingly being used to treat cancer with more precision. To plan for proton treatment, X-ray computed tomography (X-ray CT) is typically used to produce an image of the tumor site — a process that involves… Read more ›

June 27, 2013  ·  2 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Research

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… Read more ›

June 12, 2013  ·  2 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Technology

Renewed urgency in the race to exascale

At a special two-day symposium last month, Argonne invited back many of the visionaries who in some way contributed to the lab’s 30 years in advancing parallel computing and computational science. Most if not all of these individuals have made… Read more ›

June 6, 2013  ·  2 min read