UChicago’s Parsl Project Pivots to Sustainability and Community with New Grants

November 21, 2022 | UChicago CS News

Funding from the National Science Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) will support parallel programming enabler Parsl as it enters a new phase of sustainability, community, and outreach.

As the scale of scientific research grows larger, so too do the barriers. Data-intensive and computation-heavy work across all fields can benefit from parallel computing and high-performance resources, but not everyone knows how to scale up from a laptop to a supercomputer.

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Earth System Grid Federation launches effort to upgrade climate projection data system

October 11, 2022 | Phys.org

By Stephanie Seay, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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UChicago/Argonne Computer Scientist Ian Foster Receives ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award

September 7, 2022 | UChicago CS News

Ian Foster, a pioneer in cloud and high-performance computing, was named the 2022 recipient of the Ken Kennedy Award, bestowed annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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Single Sign-On Migration for Chameleon Project Receives PEARC Best Paper Award

June 28, 2022 | UChicago CS News

When any successful project attracts a large community, there will be growing pains. Since its launch in 2015, the experimental cloud computing testbed Chameleon has realized its vision of becoming a shared scientific instrument for computer science research and education. The project, led by Argonne Senior Scientist and UChicago CASE Affiliate Kate Keahey, has supported over 800 projects and 6,000 users from around the world and developed several new applications and deployments.

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BioIT Experts on Keeping Data Secure, Accessible for Research

June 1, 2022 | Bio-IT World

In a wide-ranging discussion on data security this month at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo, panelists dug into how the data we have can be better positioned to inform research in the future—and what that means for both patients and researchers.  

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Argonne's Globus software wins award at 2021 Data Mover Challenge

May 13, 2022 | Argonne National Laboratory News

Scientific experimentation frequently generates enormous quantities of data. And, just as frequently, this data cannot be handled at the point where it is created and has to be moved to either large supercomputing clusters or the cloud. This process of moving data requires high-tech software packages that can transport large quantities of information seamlessly, reliably and quickly, all over the world.

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Building Science Gateways with Django Globus Portal Framework

April 19, 2022 | SGCI Blog

By Greg Nawrocki, Globus

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Data: Share It Generously, Guard It Jealously

December 3, 2021 | Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

By Ashleen Knutsen

Cyberattack risks compel life sciences and healthcare organizations to detect anomalies, resist malware, encrypt data transfers, and institute audit logs

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Moving to petascale with the research community

November 15, 2021 | ESnet news

The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) has long been focused on developing ways to streamline workflows and reduce network operational burdens on the scientific programs and researchers they serve directly, as well as those on behalf of the entire R&E network community.

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Continuing Arecibo's Legacy

April 20, 2021 |

The Arecibo Observatory, UCF, TACC, the University of Puerto Rico, EPOC, Globus, CICoE Pilot partner to move telescope data to Ranch system

Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope's collapse in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibo's data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the ‘golden copy' of the telescope's data — the original tapes, hard drives, and disk drives of sky scans since the 1960s.

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