Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Grants Mira System Access to IIT MMAE

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) has accepted a proposal by MMAE Professor Dietmar Rempfer for his research in the “Characterization and Low-Dimensional Modeling of Urban Fluid Flow” using ALCF’s Mira system. Mira is a new petascale IBM Blue Gene/Q system which ushers in a new era of scientific supercomputing. An engineering marvel, the 10-petaflops machine is capable of carrying out 10 quadrillion calculations per second. The ALCF is committed to delivering 786 million core hours on Mira in 2013. In full production mode starting in 2014, over 5 billion computing hours will be allotted to scientists each year. Rempfer and his graduate student Sriharsha Kandala have been granted 2,000,000 core hours with Mira. Their work is aimed at addressing the problem of operating micro-air vehicles (MAVs) in the geometrically and fluid mechanically complex environment of urban street canyons. More information about the Mira facility can be found at: https://www.alcf.anl.gov/mira.