October 2009
Catching rays
An advanced-laser team enlists supercomputing to shed light on optimal designs.
September 2009
Past blasts
Climate modelers are analyzing the past 150 years of weather to compare today’s storms and climate trends to yesteryear’s.
September 2009
Future flames
Detailed computer models are helping researchers understand and improve complex chemical reactions in ultra-lean premixed flames.
September 2009
Cleaning up coal
Computation tweaks coal conversion to boost efficiency.
September 2009
Edgy energy
Huge simulations are illuminating one of the mysteries of fusion energy: how conditions on the edge of a super-hot plasma cloud influence events in the cloud core.
August 2009
One-sided story
LBNL researchers are out to break supercomputing bottlenecks with UPC, a code that cuts communication to one direction.
August 2009
Causing a stir
Scientists apply one of the world’s most powerful computers to decipher turbulent flows in flames – a key factor in understanding and improving combustion.
August 2009
Unfolding protein
Proteins can be unpredictable, kinking into shapes that help to determine these biological workhorses’ functions – or dysfunctions. A University of Washington biologist is using high-performance computers to untangle proteins.
August 2009
An explosive past
In the past few decades, computation has become so critical that combustion experimentation through simulation has become the only game in town.
June 2009
Annotated and automated
Computer scientists must tweak codes to optimize performance on today’s supercomputers. Orio uses annotations to automate the process.