Blueprints for power

May 14, 2012

The architects of tomorrow’s exascale computers are designing systems that borrow from and contribute to an unlikely source: the consumer… Read More

Feasible fuels

May 3, 2012

In the search for renewable energy, converting biomass into fuel products is one promising option for replacing petroleum. But to… Read More

Mira, Mira

April 26, 2012

Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation know Q as omnipotent alien with a mind like a supercomputer. Technophiles know Q as… Read More

Extreme data power

March 27, 2012

To move toward exascale computing, scientists must focus on saving energy used in computing in every possible way. The energy-conservation… Read More

Power players

February 21, 2012

Fast in supercomputing used to be so simple. The fastest supercomputer was the one that could perform the most flops,… Read More

High-nanotech

January 31, 2012

Intel released a novel transistor last year, the Tri-Gate, which replaced a two-dimensional flat planar gate with a 3-D silicon… Read More

Corralling carbon dioxide

January 25, 2012

Producing electricity to power our homes and businesses while also reducing carbon dioxide emissions remains difficult. Fossil fuels provide most… Read More

Game on

December 28, 2011

Next year, the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will get a new name: Titan. The move is… Read More

Age of uncertainty

December 12, 2011

Each element of any computer model comes with uncertainty – imprecision springing from indefinite data, poorly understood physical properties and inexactness… Read More

Network superstar at 25

November 8, 2011

Here is ESnet’s idea of a 25th birthday bash: testing the ultimate high-speed network, a 100-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) prototype intended to… Read More