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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IACAT and other Illinois units are co-sponsoring a workshop on Wearable Computing for Art & Performance, Sept. 3-6, 2009.