Work shift

June 1, 2022

Note: Sandia’s Elaine Raybourn is featured in the first two episodes about the future of work in season two of… Read More

Bargain proteins

May 17, 2022

Devising a drug to treat a disease isn’t easy. It means screening hundreds of thousands of compounds, testing a small… Read More

Taking charge

May 3, 2022

Perfection is a problem when it comes to how computers model materials for energy applications. Although a typical model assumes… Read More

Exascale rocks

April 12, 2022

In the late 2000s, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists Carl Steefel and David Trebotich had a computational dream. They wanted… Read More

Pi in the sky

March 14, 2022

In 2000, IEEE’s Computing in Science & Engineering journal published a list of the 20th century's top 10 algorithms. No.… Read More

Memory boost

February 23, 2022

For as long as researchers have applied artificial intelligence techniques, they’ve had an insatiable demand to manage and store big… Read More

Sustainable cities

January 26, 2022

Five years ago, Joshua New of Oak Ridge National Laboratory had an idea for an ambitious project: an energy model… Read More

Shrinking big physics

December 29, 2021

In kilometer-sized particle accelerators, electric fields hurtle small bits of matter at nearly light speed. Those fast, powerful particle beams… Read More

ExaStar power

December 15, 2021

A computational model of an exploding star – a supernova – is the “quintessential multi-physics simulation,” says a team designing codes… Read More

Protein shakeup

December 1, 2021

In the old days of cell biology, scientists knew the atomic structures of few membrane proteins. Now, amid the so-called… Read More