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| ISSUE SEVENTEEN - SPRING 2010 |
Our cover story is an interview with Dr. Thom Mason, Laboratory Directory at ORNL since 2007. The chemical model visualization on the front cover relates to our feature article on scalable molecular simulation. Our other features this quarter focus on programming, including stories on the Unified Parallel C language, programming models, and parallel scripting with Swift. The hardware section takes a look at the Magellan project, an exploration into the realm of cloud computing. In the closing editorial Dr. Douglas Kothe discusses his vision of the roles of HPC and ASCR in nuclear energy research moving forward.
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| ISSUE SIXTEEN - SPECIAL ISSUE 2010 |
The goal of the extreme scale computing initiative is to undertake a 10-year campaign to provide up to 1,000 times more powerful computing resources to meet critical DOE mission needs. The research would include the entire spectrum from simulation of new ideas through development of prototype hardware and transfer of the underlying knowledge to U.S. industry. Extreme scale computing is critical to DOE’s mission needs in Energy, the Environment, and National Security. Investments in applied mathematics and computer science base research programs will continue to advance understanding of complexities of extreme-scale computing and can breed breakthroughs in key areas, such as uncertainty quantification, verification and validation. The following articles on energy, climate, biology, security, hardware, and software address some of these issues are intended to begin a dialogue within the science and technology communities on the scope and timing for proceeding to the exascale.
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| ISSUE FIFTEEN - WINTER 2009 |
Our cover story this quarter is an interview with Professor Dr. Achim Bachem, Director of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe – PRACE. Featured topics in this issue include: visualization and analysis of vector field datasets at VACET; SciDAC’s Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science; overcoming plant cell recalcitrance in the effort to produce clean and efficient biofuels; autotuning in computational science and engineering; and the potential of graphics processing chips in the supercomputer architectures of the future. We close with Dr. Thomas Zacharia’s editorial, focused on understanding Earth’s climate system through HPC and models.
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| ISSUE FOURTEEN - FALL 2009 |
Dr. Steven E. Koonin, DOE Under Secretary for Science, is the subject of our interview this quarter. Our other cover story deals with the use of molecular modeling and simulation to address global challenges. Stories on a divide-and-conquer approach to electronic structure calculations and on the FastBit indexing technology also appear in this issue. The future of HPC hardware and software development are addressed in articles about multicore computing and the Green Flash project. In the closing editorial Rick Stevens shares his vision of advancing green energy technology through computational science.
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| ISSUE THIRTEEN - SUMMER 2009 |
Our cover story is an interview with Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov, Director of the Office of Research and Development for National Security Science and Technology. The visualization on the front cover and the first feature article relate to research on laser plasma particle accelerators. An especially timely article on computational epidemiology deals with pandemic planning and response. This issue also features stories on the SciDAC ITAPS Center, microbial ecology and metagenomics, and Chinook—a powerful supercluster at the DOE Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. The closing editorial features Dr. Horst Simon’s thoughts on the annual SciDAC conference, the growth of the program, and its collaborative spirit.
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| ISSUE TWELVE - SPRING 2009 |
In this issue, our cover story is an interview with Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President of External Research at Microsoft. Two articles focus on scientific visualization projects-the SciDAC Institute for Ultra-Scale Visualization, and the OptIPuter Project. This issue also features stories on the microscopic properties of water, the Earth System Grid for climate modeling data, and specialized hardware called GRAPE. Dr. Thomas Zacharia closes this issue with his editorial on discovery in the petascale era of computing.
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| ISSUE TEN - WINTER 2008 |
The exciting computational nanoscience research conducted at the five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers is the focus of this issue. In the foreword, Dr. Jeff Nichols introduces the concept of nanoscience and our five feature articles, each highlighting work at one of the Centers. Both the cover story–an interview with Hewlett-Packard's R. Stanley Williams–and the hardware section on memristive nanodevices complement our nanoscale theme. In the closing editorial, Rick Stevens discusses the globalization of large-scale computational science.
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| ISSUE NINE - FALL 2008 |
In this issue, our cover story is an interview with Dr. Robert Rosner, the director of Argonne National Laboratory. The project focus this quarter is on a national high-throughput facility–Open Science Grid. Other features include articles on advanced
computing in the fields of nuclear energy, molecular biology, and geophysics. This issue is dedicated to the memory of Ed Oliver, a man of great vision in the realm of scientific computing. We close with a remembrance of Dr. Oliver, contributed by his friend and former colleague, Dr. Thomas Zacharia.
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| ISSUE EIGHT - SUMMER 2008 |
Our cover stories this quarter include an interview with George Cotter–who discusses science, computing, and national security–and an astrophysics feature on black hole mergers and gravitational waves. This issue the project focus delves into the SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies (VACET). Agent-based modeling and quantum mechanics research on strange states of matter are the topics of two other features. Details about heterogeneous computing on the Cray XT5h supercomputer are examined in the hardware section. Finally, we close this issue with an editorial by Dr. Horst Simon about the challenges presented by extremely large collections of data.
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| ISSUE SEVEN - SPRING 2008 |
In this issue the cover story is an interview with LBNL director Dr. Steve Chu who discusses computational science and collaboration. An article on molecular dynamics research examines questions fundamental to simulation scale. Another story delves into the tight relationship between fusion research and scientific computing. A feature on subsurface science discusses how high-performance computing is involved in exploring Earth’s most enigmatic realm, and why such research is so environmentally and economically important. Our climate article is about a database built from weather maps. Argonne’s new Blue Gene/P system is featured in the hardware section, and the issue closes with science accomplishments.
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| ISSUE SIX - WINTER 2007 |
In this issue our interview with Nobel Laureate Dr. George Smoot is paired together with a computational cosmology article about the cosmic microwave background radiation. Our project features include a look inside the Performance Engineering Research Institute, the work of the Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional collaboration, and a story about computer modeling research on Parkinson’s disease. Cutting edge computing at the National Center for Computational Sciences is the subject of the hardware section, and the news section includes the announcement of two new SciDAC projects, as well as a look at the activities of the SciDAC Outreach Center.
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| ISSUE FIVE - FALL 2007 |
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Ken Kennedy (1945-2007), a pioneer in the advanced computing community. In a special section, his many friends and colleagues share their remembrances. In our interview, Dr. Michael Turner answers questions about the national laboratories and large-scale science pursuits. This issue also features stories on the BioPilot project, the CSCAPES Institute, the Center for Scalable Application Development Software, and some unconventional approaches to supercomputing. In closing, Dr. Michael Strayer delivers a message on the next generation of computing.
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| ISSUE FOUR - SUMMER 2007 |
In our interview, Dr. Warren Washington discusses the importance of computer models for understanding, mitigating, and adapting to climate change. Our project features include articles on Type Ia supernova simulations at the Flash Center, the applied mathematics and software tools of APDEC, and discovery at very small scales through lattice QCD research. Also appearing in this issue are stories about the power of ESnet, and scientific computing at LANL.
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| ISSUE THREE - SPRING 2007 |
Our interview for this issue includes insights from two leaders in the supercomputing industry—Peter Ungaro of Cray and Rod Adkins of IBM. A special feature reviews the Applications, Centers, and Institutes that make up the SciDAC-2 projects awarded last September. Also in this issue are articles on climate modeling and computational chemistry, as well as shorter pieces on supercomputing at NERSC and a successful student mentoring program in Oak Ridge, TN.
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| ISSUE TWO - FALL 2006 |
Our cover story is an interview with Dr. Victor Reis, Senior Advisor, Department of Energy, who talks to us about computational science in national security, nuclear energy, global partnerships, and more. In this issue we also showcase projects on combustion and data management. A special feature highlights science accomplishments, demonstrating the power of advanced computing as a tool for scientific discovery. Finally, we provide a look at future directions as the program phases into SciDAC-2.
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| ISSUE ONE - SPRING 2006 |
Our cover story is an interview with Dr Raymond Orbach, Director of the Office of Science, who talks to us about science, discovery, and SciDAC. We also showcase several projects - on accelerators, astrophysics, fusion and terascale solvers - that demonstrate the power of advanced computing as a discovery tool. And Dr Michael Strayer, Associate Director of the Office of Science and Director of the SciDAC program, looks to the future.
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