It took a while, but the DOE finally published the complete list of winners of July’s SciDAC Visualization Night competition.
Recently researchers from the computational science community gathered at the annual Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) conference in Chattanooga, TN. SciDAC, a program under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, brings together the nation’s top researchers to tackle challenging scientific problems by advancing computational science and developing the tool necessary to enable the use of high-performance computers of the day, as well as those envisioned in the next decade.
They have links to almost all the videos, and a full PDF of the winners can be seen here (view online). Argonne National Lab and the University of Chicago Flash Center won first place with the “Verification Study of Buoyancy-Driven Turbulent Nuclear Combustion for Three Different Physical Simulations”. It’s a mouthful to say, but just watch the video in awe here.
However, if you look at the press release closely, you might notice something missing. There were 10 winners, and they name 9 of them in the Press Release (8 of which they even include videos for). Guess which one they left out? Mine.
The DOD vs DOE rivalry rages on.
via SCiDAC Visualizations Bring Science to the Senses | News | Communications of the ACM.
