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 HPCwire article>
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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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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