Living with failure

December 12, 2012

Computer scientist Maya Gokhale is optimistic about exascale computing’s fast, bright future. But to achieve this success, the Lawrence Livermore… Read More

High speed, low power

November 14, 2012

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

Cosmic performance

November 8, 2012

It takes big computers to recreate the biggest thing there is – the observable universe – with enough details to help cosmologists… Read More

Water, water everywhere

October 30, 2012

Guided by advanced molecular modeling on supercomputers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists are investigating ways to turn atom-thick carbon layers into… Read More

Proxy apps for that

October 24, 2012

Achieving exascale computing will depend on many interacting parts. That requirement spawned the idea of co-design, in which developers consider… Read More

Looking skyward

October 10, 2012

A telescope project as a teenager and a lifelong interest in delving deeper into theory have fueled Jorge Nocedal’s career,… Read More

Sphere of influence

September 18, 2012

People want to know how climate will change in their back yards. But current climate predictions are based on global… Read More

Big data, big pictures

August 8, 2012

When exascale computers begin calculating at a billion, billion operations each second, gaining insights from the massive datasets generated by… Read More

Good combination

July 9, 2012

Sandia National Laboratories’ Bruce Hendrickson has built a career on connections. No, he’s not a social climber. He’s spent his… Read More

Storm tracking

June 20, 2012

By graphing points in Earth’s roiling atmosphere with the aid of the latest petascale-power technology, scientists collaborating on Department of… Read More