Bill Cannon

Holistic computing

Bahar Asgari thinks that high-performance supercomputers (HPCs) could run far more efficiently and consume less energy. That’s particularly possible when… Read More

April 24, 2024

Quanta in bulk

Quantum computers hold the promise of processing information exponentially faster than traditional machines — 100 million times the speed of… Read More

April 2, 2024

Aiming exascale at black holes

In 1783, John Michell worked as a rector in northern England, but his scientific work proposed that the mass of… Read More

March 20, 2024

Flying green

Four years after his Ph.D., turbulence and combustion modeler Bruce Perry has drawn a plum assignment. He and colleagues are… Read More

February 14, 2024

Refining finite elements

Want to simulate airflow around an airplane? Mathematician Brendan Keith can walk you through it. You’d start off with a… Read More

January 23, 2024

The forecast calls for stats

Extreme weather events have become more common and more intense than ever. In the past five years, the United States… Read More

December 19, 2023

Diversity included

The SC23 meeting this month in Denver is highlighting diversity in high-performance computing (HPC). The #IamHPC focus celebrates progress but… Read More

November 14, 2023

Small packages, big rewards

Experts believe that nuclear power – along with renewable energy sources like wind and solar – can help mitigate the… Read More

November 13, 2023

Mapping DNA’s folds

For decades, scientists have probed how human DNA that would stretch more than 2 meters if unspooled from a cell… Read More

November 1, 2023

Now streaming: nuclear physics

Accelerator facilities that allow nuclear physicists to probe the inner workings of atoms and their nuclei require a costly high-wire… Read More

October 18, 2023