Tower of power

August 3, 2016

In the Nevada desert near Las Vegas, more than 10,000 mirrors focus the sun’s energy on a 640-foot tower. This… Read More

HPC revs up engine designs

July 20, 2016

An Argonne National Laboratory team is combining software innovations with supercomputing advances to jump-start internal-combustion engine designs in the name… Read More

Super wires

June 15, 2016

Computational chemists have made strides modeling many complex chemical interactions, thanks in part to massively parallel computing and algorithms that… Read More

High-performing hybrid

June 1, 2016

Jarrod McClean and his Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory colleagues want to simulate and predict the chemistry and properties of advanced… Read More

Infant cosmos

May 18, 2016

About 13.5 billion years ago, the Big Bang filled the universe with ions – atoms bearing electric charges. Intense heat… Read More

Core data

May 4, 2016

For those concerned with climate change, nuclear energy presents a distinct advantage: It’s free of carbon and other greenhouse gases.… Read More

CSI: Brookhaven

April 27, 2016

Investigators at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Computational Science Initiative (CSI) haven’t yet been called on to solve crimes, like their CSI… Read More

Ghost writer

March 17, 2016

Processor cores in a giant supercomputer want data delivery that’s fast and efficient. It’s a difficult goal to achieve in… Read More

Moving target

February 29, 2016

When thinking about the Analysis in Motion (AIM) program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), it helps to compare it… Read More

State of excitement

January 13, 2016

Customized codes and top-of-the-line supercomputers are enabling teams in three states to enter a quantum world where excited electrons and… Read More