CCS News from 2000
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CCS to get new Facility
On September 11, 2000 Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson announced
a $100 million modernization plan for the Laboratory. The plan includes
a new building for computational science, including a new facility to house
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ORNL Dedicates Terascale Computing Facility
On June 20, 2000, the newly expanded IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer,
Eagle, and the recently acquired Compaq AlphaServer
SC system, Falcon, were dedicated in a ceremony that included
remarks by Under Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, and ORNL Director Bill
Madia. After a virtual ribbon cutting,
several applications were launched on the new machines, which have a
combined peak computational power of 1.5 teraflops.
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ORNL hosts Networking Research workshop
ORNL hosted a DOE-sponsored workshop to facilitate
establishing a regional collaboration in high performance networking
research. The small group of invited attendees represented nine universities,
two supercomputing centers, three telecommunications organizations, and
the Department of Energy.
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ORNL Materials application enshrined in Smithsonian
A team, led by ORNL's Malcolm Stocks and including
CSM's William Shelton, has been nominated for the 2000 Computerworld Smithsonian award in
honor of their achievement of TeraFLOP performance with a materials code
in November of 1998
(for which they won the Gordon Bell award). As a Laureate, this project
will be described in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's
Permanent Research Collection and in the book Faces of Innovation.
Now in its twelfth year, the Computerworld Smithsonian Program
(CWSP) is considered the most prestigious awards program in the information
technology industry.
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