As the recipient of the Peter Kollman Graduate Award, University of Colorado student Robert Elder will receive 200,000 processor hours on Kraken to support a project centered on gene therapy research.

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Unlike the Arctic, which is notoriously shedding more and more ice every year, the Antarctic sea ice is actually increasing in extent. And while scientists aren’t exactly sure why, they do have a few main suspects. The current culprit of choice is the hole in the ozone layer that hovers over the Antarctic continent.

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Big data and big science can be as beautiful as great works of art.
This year the Scientific Visualization Showcase, a new feature at this year’s SC11 conference will display scientific images and animations created by visualization programmers, animation specialists and graphic artists to help scientists view their data in intuitive, visual and sometimes three-dimensional formats.

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