AMES, Iowa – The most powerful computer ever on the Iowa State University campus – a machine dubbed “Cyence” that’s capable of 183.043 trillion calculations per second with total memory of 38.4 trillion bytes – is just beginning to produce data for 17 research projects. The thinking and infrastructure behind the new machine will have …Continue reading “Iowa State turns on ‘Cyence,’ the most powerful computer ever on campus”
Monica Lamm, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, together with Iowa State chemistry professors Mark Gordon and Theresa Windus, are featured in the fall issue of access, the research magazine of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The story is about their work to …Continue reading “Lamm featured for supercomputer work”
Monica Lamm, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering and associate scientist at Ames Laboratory, is part of a team at Iowa State University that is developing computational chemistry at the petascale. The team is preparing for the most powerful supercomputer in the world, Blue Waters, which is expected to come online in 2011. Iowa …Continue reading “Iowa State, Ames Lab researchers preparing for Blue Waters supercomputer”
AMES, Iowa – Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University’s second supercomputer. And there’s a lot of raw power in those racks. Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine, boasts a peak performance …Continue reading “Cystorm supercomputer unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second”
