CHICAGO– The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the launch of DeepTechU, a venture conference showcasing deep tech innovation and 48 investor-ready companies from universities and national labs. The virtual conference will take place April 20-22, 2021, and feature quick pitches as well as discussions with industry experts and entrepreneurs. The conference […]
Univ. of Chicago’s Polsky Center Launches Venture Conference for Midwest Deep Tech Startups from Universities and National Labs
April 16, 2021 by Leave a Comment
University of Chicago’s Polsky Center and Chicago Quantum Exchange Launch Program Supporting Quantum Startups
April 7, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Chicago Quantum Exchange today announced the launch of Duality, the first U.S. accelerator program for startup companies in quantum science and technology, according to the organizations. “Duality’s purpose is to help quantum startups bridge the gap between the laboratory and the marketplace that is a critical barrier to […]
Porting a Particle-in-Cell Code to Exascale Architectures
April 2, 2021 by Leave a Comment
By Nils Heinonen on behalf of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility As part of a series aimed at sharing best practices in preparing applications for Aurora, we highlight researchers’ efforts to optimize codes to run efficiently on graphics processing units. Take advantage of upgrades being made to high-level, non-machine-specific libraries and programming models Developed in […]
3 National Labs Join ATOM Consortium for Drug Discovery
March 30, 2021 by Leave a Comment
MARCH 29, 2021 — The Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine (ATOM) consortium today announced the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne, Brookhaven and Oak Ridge national laboratories are joining the consortium to further develop ATOM’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery platform. The public-private ATOM consortium aims to transform drug discovery from a slow, sequential and high-risk process […]
Preparing for Exascale: ALCF’s Aurora Early Science Program and Visualizing Cancer’s Spread
March 26, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Scientists are preparing a cancer modeling study to run on Argonne’s upcoming Aurora supercomputer before it goes online in 2022. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will be home to one of the nation’s first exascale supercomputers – Aurora is scheduled to arrive in 2022. To prepare codes for the architecture and scale of […]
‘Intel Is Back’: Gelsinger Delivers Upbeat Update, Expanded Manufacturing in U.S., Europe
March 23, 2021 by Leave a Comment
New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered an upbeat corporate update this afternoon in the form of a webinar that emphasized Intel’s integrated device manufacturing, “IDM.2.0” strategy for manufacturing and product development that combines the company’s internal network of factories with third-party outsourced capacity and new Intel foundries in the U.S. and Europe. “As I hope […]
NERSC, ALCF, Codeplay Partner on SYCL GPU Compiler
March 1, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) are working with Codeplay Software to enhance the LLVM SYCL GPU compiler capabilities for Nvidia A100 GPUs. The collaboration is designed to help NERSC and ALCF users, along with the HPC community in general, produce […]
ATPESC – Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing – Sets March 1 Application Deadline
February 8, 2021 by
Argonne National Laboratory said today it has established a March 1 deadline to apply for an opportunity to learn the tools and techniques needed to carry out research on the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Applications are now being accepted for ATPESC 2021 — a two-week training program designed to teach the skills, approaches and tools to design, implement and execute […]
Let’s Talk Exascale: Getting Applications Aurora-Ready
February 8, 2021 by
This episode of Let’s Talk Episode from DOE’s Exascale Computing Project is the first in a series on best practices in preparing applications for the upcoming Aurora exascale supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. In these discussions, the emphasis will be on optimizing code to run on GPUs and providing developers […]
Argonne’s Rick Stevens named ACM Fellow
January 19, 2021 by
Rick Stevens has been named a Fellow of the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM). Stevens is associate laboratory director of the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences directorate at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and a professor of computer science at the University of Chicago. Stevens was honored “for outstanding contributions in […]
