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GPU Computing Collaboration Network launched

The GPU Computing Collaboration Network a new network of research communities designed to foster collaboration among scientists, researchers, and developers using GPU computing.

Published Date: November 23, 2009


Bill Gropp wins Inaugural HPC Community Leadership Award

During the Opening Gala at SC09, insideHPC presented the inaugural awards HPC Community Leadership to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Illinois' Bill Gropp.

Published Date: November 18, 2009


IACAT provides answers to questions about GPU computing

IACAT and NCSA staff who work with GPUs answer basic questions about using them.

Published Date: November 5, 2009


IACAT partners describe GPU experiences

James C. Phillips and John E. Stone, members of the Illinois-based Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group and IACAT collaborators, describe their experiences using graphics processing units for molecular dynamics in Communications of the ACM.  

Published Date: September 29, 2009


IACAT's Braatz working on project to introduce nanotechnology to young students

IACAT's Richard Braatz and Umberto Ravaioli, engineering professor at the University, are working with Northwestern University-led National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering to introduce nanotechnology to students in middle school. Investigators are hoping the NSF will continue to fund the effort.

Published Date: September 23, 2009


IACAT's Ceperley part of team that will build superconductivity simulator

A team of physicists at seven U.S. universities, including IACAT researcher David Ceperley, has won $5 million from the Department of Defense to build a simulator capable of tackling high-temperature superconductivity, one of the most vexing mysteries of modern physics.

Published Date: September 23, 2009


Dunning on editorial board for new journal

NCSA Director Thom Dunning is a member of the editorial board for The Journal of Computational Science, a new Elsevier Science Journal for novel results in computational science. Full papers, short communications and letters can be submitted at http://ees.elsevier.com/jocs/. Go to http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jocs for more information on the journal.

Published Date: September 22, 2009


Symposium marks 20th anniversary of Schulten research team

A symposium on Computational Biology of the Cell: The Next Decade will be held Sept. 21-23 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, led by IACAT researcher Klaus Schulten.

Published Date: September 22, 2009


SC09 interviews technical program chair Bill Gropp

IACAT's Bill Gropp is the chair of the technical program for SC09, to be held Nov. 14-20 in Portland, Oregon. In this audio interview, he describes what attendees can expect from this year's progrram.

Published Date: September 17, 2009


IACAT's Gropp featured in Computing in Science and Engineering

IACAT deputy director for research Bill Gropp wrote an article on Software for Petascale Computing Systems for the September/October issue of Computing in Science and Engineering. The issue focused on petascale computing and was guest edited by IACAT/NCSA Director Thom Dunning.

Published Date: September 9, 2009