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Friday, April 05, 2002 
IBM's Denneau discusses parallel computing at Director's ColloquiumMonty Denneau, right, chief system architect for IBM's "Blue Gene Project, talks with Rich Mah, left, associate director for weapons engineering and manufacturing, and Andy White of Computer and Computational Sciences (CCS) on Thursday in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3. Denneau talked about IBM's work on a parallel computer that can study various biomolecular phenomena, including protein folding, which is the unexplained changing of a protein's shape. Parallel computing is a technology that can perform more than one computation at a time. Thousands of computations are processed in small pieces rather than as a whole. Such technology is useful for repetitive applications. Since the start of the program in 1999, Blue Gene has been expanded, in partnership with the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, to include the design of a supercomputer 15 times faster, consuming 15 times less power per computation and 50 to 100 times smaller than today's fastest supercomputers, according to information published in a statement last year by IBM. Photo by LeRoy N. Sanchez Public AffairsOther Headlines IBM's Denneau discusses parallel computing at Director's Colloquium more... Memorial service today for Laboratory retiree Eutsler more... Protective force training exercises scheduled for today more... New classes being offered by ESH-13 more... Deputy Energy Secretary Francis Blake to resign more... Coll named to UC-labs position more... Daylight savings time begins this weekend more... |
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