Argonne training program alumni find success in extreme-scale computing cloudadminsju@… Thu, 02/08/2024 - 14:56 Past attendees illustrate ATPESC’s enduring impact From providing a foundation for innovative computing research to fostering new connections and opening the door to diverse career paths, ATPESC has become a defining chapter in the professional journeys of many attendees. 33667D 014_1600x900 The ATPESC curriculum covers everything from emerging hardware technologies and software development to data analysis and AI for science. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Jim Collins Febru ..read more

Kevin Brown is paving the way toward the next generation of supercomputers estevens@anl.gov Thu, 11/09/2023 - 18:26 The Walter Massey Fellow looks for bottlenecks that hamper even the world's fastest machines At Argonne, Brown studies the algorithms and architecture that can best serve the huge computational problems supercomputers can handle. 33331D240_1600x900.jpg Kevin Brown. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Christina Nunez November 13, 2023 As a student who was always drawn to some of science’s most difficult challenges, Kevin Brown found one in the pages of a technical magazine th ..read more

How microelectronics will take computing to new heights cloudadminlm@a… Thu, 10/26/2023 - 16:50 Research at Argonne is reimagining the building blocks of devices that power everything from your phone to space probes 1920x1080-Microelectronics_101 (002).jpg Tiny but powerful, microelectronics are essential to daily life today. Scientists are working to make them even smaller and more energy efficient. 16x9-Microelectronics 21st Century image.png Schematic of a cross-bar circuit element designed for future low power, non-volatile memory or neuromorphic computing applications. “Row" and “column ..read more

Argonne training program provides crash course in supercomputing cloudadminlm@a… Wed, 10/11/2023 - 11:17 Over the past 11 years, 768 researchers have passed through the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing The intensive two-week program equips attendees with the skills and knowledge needed to use the world’s most powerful supercomputers for science. ATPESC-classroom_33667D-006_WebRes Argonne computer scientist Yanfei Guo leads a session on Message Passing Interface at the 2023 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Jim Collin ..read more

Argonne-led team wins technology challenge at SC19 Barrett, Janet… Mon, 12/16/2019 - 14:31 An extensive collaboration led by Argonne recently won the Inaugural SCinet Technology Challenge at the Supercomputing 19 conference by demonstrating real-time analysis of light source data from Argonne’s APS to the ALCF. SC19-tech-challenge-16x9.jpg An Argonne-led collaboration won the first SCinet Technology Challenge at SC19 in November, for their work on real-time streaming data analysis. Argonne team members Ian Foster, Zhengchun Liu, Tekin Bicer and Michael E. Papka share some time with the award ..read more

Quantum network between two national labs achieves record synch Barrett, Janet… Wed, 06/22/2022 - 10:04 Quantum collaboration demonstrates in Chicagoland the first steps toward functional long-distance quantum networks over deployed telecom fiber optics, opening the door to scalable quantum computing. 16x9-ieqnet.map_.jpg To test the synchronicity of two clocks — one at Argonne and one at Fermilab — scientists transmitted a traditional clock signal (blue) and a quantum signal (orange) simultaneously between the two clocks. The signals were sent over the Illinois Express Quantum Network. Resear ..read more

James C. Osborn Osborn, James C. Fri, 02/09/2018 - 16:37 James specializes in quantum field theory and lattice simulation methods, with an emphasis on lattice QCD.  He also has interests in quantum computing, HPC, sparse linear algebra, applying ML methods to Hybrid Monte Carlo, and random matrix theory. Dr. James Osborn is a Computational Scientist and Team Lead at Argonne National Laboratory and a Senior Scientist in the University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering.  His current projects focus on developing lattice ..read more

The age of exascale and the future of supercomputing Barrett, Janet… Thu, 11/11/2021 - 12:44 1920x1080_shutterstock_1234673485.jpg Argonne looks to exascale and beyond, sorting out the relationship between computing and experimental facilities, the need for speed and AI’s role in making it all work. 16x9_AVIDAC and JeanHall.jpg AVIDAC boasted remarkable computing power for the time, performing 1,000 multiplications per second. Today’s smart phones can store around 100 million times more data and do in a single second what would have taken AVIDAC two months. Pictured with AVIDAC is pioneer Argo ..read more

$1.2 million award helps Argonne steer manufacturers toward supercomputing Junca, Stephan… Thu, 10/14/2021 - 14:38 Argonne is using its computing power and expertise to help U.S. companies improve energy efficiency in manufacturing and materials development. HPC4EI-16x9_shutterstock_1990170584.jpg A DOE grant allows U.S. companies to harness Argonne computing power and expertise. The grant will fund four collaborative projects to improve energy efficiency in manufacturing and materials development. (Image by Shutterstock/kittirat roekburi.) Liz Thompson October 18, 2021 Engineers and scientis ..read more

Argonne’s new menu of data storage software helps scientists realize findings earlier cloudadminvls@… Fri, 05/29/2020 - 14:13 Argonne data navigation tool enables scientists to unlock discoveries faster using specialized scientific data services. mochi-1600x900-carns-rev.png An Argonne-led collaboration developed Mochi, a novel data navigation system that will allow scientists to rapidly customize a suite of data services to suit the needs of a specific domain and problem, shaving weeks or months off the time needed to produce actionable information from collected data. (Image by Argonne Natio ..read more