We announced the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC, see tpc.dev) today - more than 500 people from more than 60 organizations around the world. anl.gov/article/new-internat…
Fun to watch NASCAR from above (my first). Though they keep wiping out taking a left off Columbus onto Balbo and I have to say I’ve taken that turn countless times without any issues. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Was great to join @SecGranholm, @SenatorDurbin, @RepBobbyRush & WH officials at @Argonne to highlight funding for our national labs featured in the #InflationReductionAct.
These investments will accelerate scientific discovery to help us build a cleaner, stronger economy!
I posted "The History of the Grid" on Arxiv. This 2011 article reviews the work that, from the 1990s onwards, pioneered on-demand and federated computing and data over then-new high-speed networks. arxiv.org/abs/2204.04312
Congratulations to Jack Dongarra for well-deserved Turing Award. His use of mathematics, in particular linear algebra, as a language for programming increasingly complex computer architectures has lasted 30 years and enabled scaling by billions. fortune.com/2022/03/30/turin…
Underpinning the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 6th Assessment report are climate models run on huge parallel computers. Today, those computers are close to exascale; 25 years ago, they ran around one billion times more slowly 1/5 ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar…
Carlo Graziani's writes on "#Covid19#Omicron and a Typology of 'Breakthrough Infections'"; notes that "there is no evidence whatsoever that Omicron produces Type 1 breakthrough infections." wordpress.cels.anl.gov/covid…