Archive for September, 2008

Jaguar Poised to Pounce On Petascale

Posted on Sep 30th, 2008

First cabinets arrive at ORNL By: Scott Jones The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has begun receiving the first cabinets of ...
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NCCS Snapshot The Week of September 22, 2008

Posted on Sep 25th, 2008

Jaguar to Host Next-Generation Climate Models NOAA collaboration continues NCCS climate work The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will provide the resources to research advanced ...
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Abrupt Climate Change Focus Of U.S. National Laboratories

Posted on Sep 19th, 2008

Abrupt climate change is a potential menace that hasn’t received much attention. That’s about to change. Through its Climate Change Prediction Program, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Biological ...
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Collaborative Supercomputing

Posted on Sep 12th, 2008

The big news in the science community this week was the kickoff of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), The $10 billion atom smasher that sent its first proton beams through ...
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Department of Energy to Provide Supercomputing Time to Run NOAA’s Climate Change Models

Posted on Sep 10th, 2008

The U.S. Department of Energy’s ( DOE ) Office of Science will make available more than 10 million hours of computing time for the U.S. ...
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NCCS Snapshot the Week of September 1, 2008

Posted on Sep 3rd, 2008

Supercomputing Simplified ADIOS boosts big science “In computing, things need to be flexible and easy to use.” So goes the motto of National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) ...
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Cray Unveils New Cooling Technology For the Petascale Era

Posted on Sep 3rd, 2008

Cray, known for its power and packaging prowess since 1976, when Seymour Cray bent the Cray-1 into a "C" shape, is unveiling a petascale-era cooling technology it says is more ...
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