August 2007
Optimistic about optimization
Cynthia Phillips and colleagues devise algorithms that let computers solve complex optimization problems.
August 2007
Small scale, big deal
Susan Kurien sweats the (relatively) small stuff. She and her fellow researchers study how small-scale ocean phenomena can affect large-scale climate.
July 2007
Supercomputer saga
The 1973 oil embargo changed how Americans think about energy and altered science’s path. Alvin Trivelpiece had a lot to do with that change.
July 2007
Overture to success
An applied mathematician researches ways to combine computational tools that automatically adapt to efficiently attack specific parts of the simulation.
July 2007
Plotting plasmas
High-temperature plasmas important in fusion are difficult to measure experimentally. Researchers are turning to computer simulations to study fusion.
July 2007
Star material
Simulating the origin of everything – from the iron in our blood to the planet we live on.
July 2007
Ganging up
DOE researchers have made it easier to link off-the-shelf PCs into powerful parallel clusters.
June 2007
Testing tradition
Software developers deal with their own urban legends.
June 2007
Building tiny detectors
An applied mathematician looks at how molecules’ shapes affect the way minuscule structures come together.
June 2007
Computing climate
Models that the DOE program CHAMMP improved more than a decade ago still contribute to global climate science.