June 2009
Subterranean blues
Models track contamination from reservation to river.
June 2009
Clearing up clouds
A team hopes to disperse the haze surrounding clouds’ behavior and influence on the atmosphere. The tool: a simulation operating at an exceptionally fine scale.
June 2009
Science in motion
Scientific visualization harnesses the power of computing and human vision as full partners in scientific reasoning.
June 2009
Concrete calculations
Computer models illuminate what influences flow in concrete and how that affects stress and environmental impact.
May 2009
Keeping the beat
Computer models get to the heart of arrhythmia causes.
April 2009
Keeping on course
The next big physics facility will collide bunches of electrons and oppositely charged positrons. Computation is helping to skirt design pitfalls.
March 2009
Lightweight heavyweight
Barney Maccabe’s helping bring petascale computing into the mainstream of scientific computing – and practicing his substantial hockey skills.
February 2009
Power from plants
Deploying massive computer resources to convert stems and leaves to sugars for fuel.
February 2009
Moving mounds of data
The increasing power of high-performance computers has created a parallel increase in the data they process and produce.
February 2009
Going underground
Brothers’ methods model flows and assess uncertainty.