Scaling up for security

May 5, 2011

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. When someone mentions national security and computation, the phrase “war games” probably… Read More

Pinpointing proteins

March 30, 2011

Anyone who has tried to match an unfamiliar bird’s features to its field guide portrait knows that reality rarely provides… Read More

Simulating Life

March 14, 2011

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. Simulating biology won’t be extremely useful without extreme-scale computing. Biology demands a… Read More

Fiber into fuel

March 3, 2011

A biomass bonanza surrounds the Ames Laboratory offices of Mark Gordon, Monica Lamm and Theresa Windus – if only they can… Read More

Galaxy and gluons

March 1, 2011

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. Alex Szalay looks to the skies to study the universe’s largest structures. Frank Würthwein… Read More

Physics to the max

February 25, 2011

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. After years of planning, construction and delays, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)… Read More

A need for speed

February 14, 2011

First in the Science at the Exascale series. Over the next decade, scientists will command the abilities of computers operating… Read More

Dynamic adaptations

January 19, 2011

Wind turbines, blood vessels and nuclear power plants might seem to have little in common, but their interactions with fluids –… Read More

Super shakeup

December 16, 2010

What scientists don’t know about huge earthquakes can make them tremble. Despite impressive advances in earthquake monitoring, no one knows… Read More

Honoring a climate model pioneer

November 17, 2010

For Warren Washington, climate and computers have gone together for more than 50 years. In 1958, as a master’s degree… Read More