Computer scientist Maya Gokhale is optimistic about exascale computing’s fast, bright future. But to achieve this success, the Lawrence Livermore… Read More
Powering today’s petaflops computers – capable of quadrillions of calculations per second – costs $5 million to $10 million a year. Using current technology… Read More
It takes big computers to recreate the biggest thing there is – the observable universe – with enough details to help cosmologists… Read More
Guided by advanced molecular modeling on supercomputers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists are investigating ways to turn atom-thick carbon layers into… Read More
Achieving exascale computing will depend on many interacting parts. That requirement spawned the idea of co-design, in which developers consider… Read More
A telescope project as a teenager and a lifelong interest in delving deeper into theory have fueled Jorge Nocedal’s career,… Read More
People want to know how climate will change in their back yards. But current climate predictions are based on global… Read More
When exascale computers begin calculating at a billion, billion operations each second, gaining insights from the massive datasets generated by… Read More
Sandia National Laboratories’ Bruce Hendrickson has built a career on connections. No, he’s not a social climber. He’s spent his… Read More
By graphing points in Earth’s roiling atmosphere with the aid of the latest petascale-power technology, scientists collaborating on Department of… Read More