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ASCR Supports Early Career Awards
2010 INCITE AWARDS ANNOUNCED
 For the seventh consecutive year, ASCR's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program has awarded access to DOE supercomputers to universities, laboratories, other government agencies and industry. This year, over 1.6 billion supercomputing processor hours were awarded to 69 cutting-edge research projects, roughly an 80% increase in processor hours from last year.
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Jaguar - The World's Fastest Computer Jaguar, a Cray XT5 supercomputer located at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), was named the world's fastest computer. The announcement was made at SC09, THE international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, by Top500.org, a supercomputing tracking website.
DOE Press Release> | OLCF> | Top500.org> | Jaguar Web Site> | SC09>ASCR Funded Computers Take Top Honors at SC09 HPC Challenges
Results of the "Best Performance" awards, which measure excellence in handling computing workloads, were announced at SC09 and included ASCR funded supercomputers. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilities' (OLCF) Jaguar took three first place awards for HPL code (solving a dense matrix of linear algebra equations), STREAM (measures how fast a node can retrieve and store information) and executing the Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT). For running the RandomAccess measure of the rate of integer updates to random locations in a large global memory array, the IBM Blue Gene machines at LLNL took first, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facilities' ( ALCF) Blue Gene took second and OLCF's Jaguar took third place. For more info about the HPC challenges, see the HPCwire article>Progress Demonstrated on Recovery Act Funded Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI)
At the SC09 Conference, 100Gbps of test data was transmitted from Portland to Seattle and then looped back to Portland. These 100Gbps demonstrations represent the continued advances made by the joint initiative, announced in 2009, between the department's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Internet2, Infinera, Juniper Networks and Level 3 Communications. The five organizations announced an initiative to work together to develop and deploy 100GbE services. ESnet and Internet2 are planning testbeds and eventual production deployment of 100GbE. The ANI would connect DOE supercomputer centers at speeds 10 times faster than current technology. Since SC09, additional progress has been demonstrated.
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Magellan - A Scientific Cloud Computing Project
DOE is launching a $32 million program to study how scientific codes can make use of cloud computing technology. The program, called Magellan, is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), with the money to be split between the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).
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DOE Labs Take Pride in Award-Winning IBM Blue Gene Series
President Obama recognized IBM and its Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement.
Computer scientists at the DOE’s Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories can take pride in their role in making these computers a reality. Both sites contributed critical input and software components through a DOE research and development partnership with IBM that strongly impacted Blue Gene’s extreme-scale design.
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