Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and TechnologiesInstitute NewsIACAT provides answers to questions about GPU computingIACAT and NCSA staff who work with GPUs answer basic questions about using them.
Published Date: November 5, 2009 IACAT partners describe GPU experiencesJames 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 studentsIACAT'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 simulatorA 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 journalNCSA 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 teamA 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 GroppIACAT'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 EngineeringIACAT 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 IACAT co-sponsors wearable computing workshopIACAT and other Illinois units are co-sponsoring a workshop on Wearable Computing for Art & Performance, Sept. 3-6, 2009. Published Date: August 21, 2009 IACAT researcher Aluru named Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Science and EngineeringNarayana R. Aluru, a researcher in the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies, will be invested as the Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering in a ceremony at 4 p.m. on Sept. 17 in the auditorium of the NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana. A reception will follow from 5 to 6 p.m. Aluru efforts in IACAT's Center for Extreme-Scale Computation are in the development of multiscale simulation methods that seamlessly couple interatomic potentials with nonlinear continuum mechanical theories. Published Date: August 21, 2009 |