Bill Cannon

Tower of power

In the Nevada desert near Las Vegas, more than 10,000 mirrors focus the sun’s energy on a 640-foot tower. This… Read More

August 3, 2016

HPC revs up engine designs

An Argonne National Laboratory team is combining software innovations with supercomputing advances to jump-start internal-combustion engine designs in the name… Read More

July 20, 2016

Super wires

Computational chemists have made strides modeling many complex chemical interactions, thanks in part to massively parallel computing and algorithms that… Read More

June 15, 2016

High-performing hybrid

Jarrod McClean and his Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory colleagues want to simulate and predict the chemistry and properties of advanced… Read More

June 1, 2016

Infant cosmos

About 13.5 billion years ago, the Big Bang filled the universe with ions – atoms bearing electric charges. Intense heat… Read More

May 18, 2016

Core data

For those concerned with climate change, nuclear energy presents a distinct advantage: It’s free of carbon and other greenhouse gases.… Read More

May 4, 2016

CSI: Brookhaven

Investigators at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Computational Science Initiative (CSI) haven’t yet been called on to solve crimes, like their CSI… Read More

April 27, 2016

Ghost writer

Processor cores in a giant supercomputer want data delivery that’s fast and efficient. It’s a difficult goal to achieve in… Read More

March 17, 2016

Moving target

When thinking about the Analysis in Motion (AIM) program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), it helps to compare it… Read More

February 29, 2016

State of excitement

Customized codes and top-of-the-line supercomputers are enabling teams in three states to enter a quantum world where excited electrons and… Read More

January 13, 2016