Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., is in the money to the tune of $25 million, thanks to a grant from the Department of Energy’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program.
The money will be put to use in more than a dozen projects, says the national lab. The SciDAC program was initiated in 2001 to creatre the high-performance softwre tools needed to advance scientific discovery using terascale supercomputers, the lab explains.
Among the SciDAC research include the Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science, to create the technology necessary for large and often distributed communities to access data so that it can be shared and translated into knowlege. Others include Scaling the Earth System Grid to Petascale Data Center for Enabling Technologies; Towards Optimal Petascale Simulations; Center for Technology for Advanced Scientific Component software – to create a component ecosystem of off-the-shelf components; and Performance Engineering Research Institute, which focusese on the development of tools for performance modeling and prediction.
The Argonne National Lab press release, which goes into more detail about the projects, is here.
Linda Leung, lleung@nww.com
