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Education Musings

Critical thinking skills: what designers have and U.S. industry needs

From the time I was an undergraduate physics major, I’ve also been interested in the creative activities intrinsic to art and design fields. Critique, conceptualization, and iteration are all useful practices for developing new ways of seeing reality. Good artists… Read more ›

May 15, 2013  ·  1 min read

Research

Mira science run probes turbulence physics

Earlier this month, University of Texas’s Robert Moser initiated the first full-scale production run on Mira, the ALCF’s new 10-petaflops system. Moser is examining the complex physics of a specific region of wall-bounded turbulence, which is central to understanding the… Read more ›

April 19, 2013  ·  1 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

March 14 Argonne OutLoud Public Lecture

Research teams from around the world are preparing to use Mira, Argonne’s new petaflops supercomputer, to tackle the most challenging problems in science and engineering today. What happens when a star explodes? Can we find alternative fuel sources? How hot… Read more ›

March 4, 2013  ·  1 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Technology

Mira: ALCF’s next-generation supercomputer

Mira will provide billions more processor-hours per year to the scientists, engineers, and researchers who use it to run complex simulations of everything from nuclear reactors to blood vessels through allocations awarded through INCITE, ALCC and Director’s Discretionary programs. [Photo… Read more

February 8, 2013  ·  1 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

ALCF’s Early Science Program – science from day one

Over the next two months, ALCF’s Early Science Program projects are expected to use approximately 2 billion core-hours on Mira! These select sixteen projects are based on state-of-the-art petascale parallel applications and span a wide range of scientific fields, numerical… Read more ›

January 31, 2013  ·  1 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Research

Blood clots are ready for their close-up

Leopold Grinberg of Brown University and an international team of researchers have used three of the world’s fastest supercomputers to create a detailed and sophisticated model of clot formation in an aneurism — a bulging of a vessel wall as… Read more ›

December 13, 2012  ·  1 min read

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

Record allocation for ALCF – 2.83B core-hours

The DOE’s Leadership Computing Facilities at Argonne and Oak Ridge national laboratories have awarded a combined 4.7 billion supercomputing core hours to 61 science and engineering projects through its 2013 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment program.… Read more ›

November 16, 2012  ·  1 min read