About CI
The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory established the Computation Institute in 2000 to address the most
challenging problems arising in the use of strategic computation and communications. Its establishment was motivated by the
tremendous opportunities inherent in new approaches to research based on the large-scale application of computation, data,
and communications, and the strategic importance to the University and Argonne of developing the capabilities required to
exploit those opportunities.
The Institute has already had a significant impact on the practice of computation at the University and Argonne. More than 70 Chicago faculty and Argonne scientists have been appointed as fellows and 30 full-time professional staff employed. Many high-profile and high-impact projects have been established, such as Open Science Grid, TeraGrid, Globus, the National Microbial Pathogen Research Center, the Social Informatics Data Grid, and the Chicago Biomedical Consortium.
Looking forward, the Computation Institute is focusing its efforts in three principal areas:
- Deep Supercomputing: The application of high-performance computing systems to the study of phenomena that cannot easily be approached via theory and/or experiment alone. Also, study of the methods and tools by which high-performance computing applications are constructed and the fundamental limitations of numerical simulation.
- Data Intensive Computing: The development and application of the methods and tools required to make sense of massive quantities of multidimensional data, including the efficient collection and organization of that data, and the reduction of dimensionality via data mining, visualization, and other techniques.
- Next Generation Cybertools: The development, application, and analysis of infrastructure and tools to enable new approaches to research and education based on ubiquitous, high-performance communications and other technological advances, including Grid computing and advanced collaboration systems.
Related Information
Computation Institute 2000-2006 Summary Report of Activities
