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Argonne National Laboratory Selects IBM Supercomputer to Advance Research

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2011Technology10 petaflop, argonne national laboratory, blue gene, complex modeling, department of energy, doe, early science program, electric car batteries, evolution of our universe, exascale class computers, global climate change, greatest scientific challenges, ibm, ibm supercomputer, mira, next generation blue gene supercomputer, quadrillion, rick stevens, simulation capabilities, u s, united states

*Based on next generation IBM Blue Gene, the 10 petaflop “Mira” supercomputer will fuel national innovation*

WASHINGTON – 08 Feb 2011: IBM today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will use IBM’s next-generation Blue Gene supercomputer to enable significant advances in areas such as designing ultra-efficient electric car batteries, understanding global climate change and exploring the evolution of our universe.

The 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, named “Mira”, will be operational in 2012 and made available to scientists from industry, academia and government research facilities around the world. (more…)

Breakthrough in Nanocrystals Growth

By Guest PostOctober 19, 2010Scienceadvanced photon source, aps, argonne national laboratory, biological sensors, carnegie, center for nanoscale, chemical, diffraction, high pressure synergetic consortium, hpsync, hpsync program, metal-conducting liquid, nanoletters, nanoparticles, nanoparticles grow, Nanotechnology, russell hemley, solar-cell technology, wenge yang, x-rays

Nanoparticles. Image credit: Wenge Yang

Argonne, ILL — For the first time scientists have been able to watch nanoparticles grow from the earliest stages of their formation. Nanoparticles are the foundation of nanotechnology and their performance depends on their structure, composition, and size. Researchers will now be able to develop ways to control conditions under which they are grown. The breakthrough will affect a wide range of applications including solar-cell technology and chemical and biological sensors. The research is published in NANOLetters.

As coauthor Wenge Yang of the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory explained: “It’s been very difficult to watch these tiny particles be born and grow in the past because traditional techniques require that the sample be in a vacuum and many nanoparticles are grown in a metal-conducting liquid. So we have not been able to see how different conditions affect the particles, much less understand how we can tweak the conditions to get a desired effect.” (more…)

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Argonne National Laboratory Selects IBM Supercomputer to Advance Research

Breakthrough in Nanocrystals Growth