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.
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ASCR Participation In SC09
ASCR researchers and DOE labs are deeply engaged in SC09, from serving as members of the conference organizing committee, to invited MasterWorks presentations. Laboratory staff are presenting papers, leading tutorials, participating in panels and BOFs, and competing in the networking and storage challenges. In addition to items that are on the technical program, there will be many presentations and demonstrations conducted. For an overview of these activities, see the ASCR October monthly computer news roundup.
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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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ASCR Researcher
Juan Meza Named One of Hispanic Business Magazine’s “100 Influentials”
Juan Meza, an ASCR research at LBL, has been named to Hispanic Business magazine’s annual list of 100 influential Hispanics. The list, published in the October issue, includes Hispanics who play leading roles in politics, business, science, information technology, health care, education, the media and other areas.
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ESnet Honored as One of Top 10 Government IT Innovators
Once a year, InformationWeek magazine honors the most innovative players in the field of information technology, including the top 10 government agency innovators. This year, the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) was recognized as a member of this select group for its work helping thousands of researchers worldwide manage the massive amounts of scientific data stemming from the application of petascale supercomputers and high-precision instruments to cutting-edge disciplines such as climate science, high energy physics, astrophysics and genomics.
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ESnet was also recently honored as an Excellence.Gov Award winner for enhancing government transparency. The winners were announced in April and ESnet 4 won in the category of "application of technology". The Excellence.Gov Awards Program was established by the American Council for Technology/Industry Advisory Council to recognize the best practices in the federal government's management and use of information technology.
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Recovery Act Funds Development Of The World's Fastest Computer Network
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is receiving $62 million to develop what will be the world's fastest computer network, designed specifically to support science. Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Advanced Networking Initiative will ensure that the United States stays competitive in science and technology. Specifically, ESnet will develop a prototype 100 gigbits per second (Gbps) Ethernet network to connect DOE supercomputer centers at speeds 10 times faster than current technology.
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WIRED.com Highlights
SciDAC Visualizations
WIRED.com, the online content for Wired Magazine, is highlighting the SciDAC Top 10 Scientific Visualizations. These visualizations were selected at the annual Vis Night awards (the OASCRs), at the 2009 SciDAC conference.
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NERSC Awards Supercomputer Contract to CRAY Inc
NERSC has chosen Cray Inc. to provide its next generation supercomputing system. The new system will ultimately deliver a peak performance of more than 1 PFlop/sec and will will help advance open scientific research.
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 ASCR Research Wins
Three R&D 100 Awards
The winning of an R&D 100 award, often dubbed the “Oscars of invention,” provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government and academia and represents one of the most innovative ideas of the year. This year, ASCR supported research garnered three of these coveted awards.
The three award winners are PETSc (pronounced PET-see), part of the TOPS SciDAC project, ROSE and Catamount N-Way (CNW) lightweight kernel (supported by the NNSA-ASC program).
For a complete list of R&D 100 winners, see this link:
http://www.rdmag.com/RD100Home.html.
ASCR Researchers Honored With a Presidential Early Career Award
ASCR supported researchers Cecilia Aragon and Alexandre Tartakovsky (who is also supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program) were among the 100 researchers named by President Barack Obama to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on early-career researchers.
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