Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago demonstrated a new specialized software system at Supercomputing 2006 that provides computational resources quickly for emergency applications affecting public health, safety and security. This new system, called SPRUCE (Special PRiority and Urgent Computing Environment), supports urgent computing on both traditional supercomputers and distributed computational Grids.
The SPRUCE system was demonstrated at the Argonne and TeraGrid booths at SC06, the world’s premier supercomputing and networking conference. The demonstration featured a hypothetical situation in which scientists requested immediate access to the TeraGrid supercomputers at the University of Chicago to make time-sensitive analyses of a fast-evolving weather emergency.
Read the full press release from Argonne National Laboratory here.
Linda Leung, lleung@nww.com
