June 2007
From deep freeze to furnace
What happens when hydrogen pellets frozen to near absolute zero are shot into a plasma more than six times hotter than the sun?
June 2007
Food poisoning and computing
Chris Oehmen’s research bridges the worlds of biology and high-performance computing.
June 2007
Digging up FOSLS
Unraveling complex equations helps computers solve them fast and efficiently.
June 2007
Code collaboration
Big computers are needed to run fusion energy reactor models.
April 2007
Filling cavities virtually
A collaboration helps optimize particle accelerators.
April 2007
Message passing passage
The big computers of today might not have been possible if some dedicated experts hadn’t gathered at an ‘unappetizing’ hotel in the 1990s.
April 2007
Burning questions
Powerful computers are simulating how turbulence enhances – or retards – combustion in clean, efficient engines.
April 2007
Putting the pieces together
Scientists are redefining the computer operating system concept for the next generation of high-performance computers.
April 2007
Sniffing out bad code
A program designed to find and fix bad computer codes now is finding malicious programming and maintaining software on some of the world’s biggest computers.
April 2007
Calculating error pollution
University of Texas researchers are out to make computer simulations more precise with mathematical methods to estimate errors.