Bill Cannon

Looking skyward

A telescope project as a teenager and a lifelong interest in delving deeper into theory have fueled Jorge Nocedal’s career,… Read More

October 10, 2012

Sphere of influence

People want to know how climate will change in their back yards. But current climate predictions are based on global… Read More

September 18, 2012

Big data, big pictures

When exascale computers begin calculating at a billion, billion operations each second, gaining insights from the massive datasets generated by… Read More

August 8, 2012

Good combination

Sandia National Laboratories’ Bruce Hendrickson has built a career on connections. No, he’s not a social climber. He’s spent his… Read More

July 9, 2012

Blueprints for power

The architects of tomorrow’s exascale computers are designing systems that borrow from and contribute to an unlikely source: the consumer… Read More

May 14, 2012

Feasible fuels

In the search for renewable energy, converting biomass into fuel products is one promising option for replacing petroleum. But to… Read More

May 3, 2012

Mira, Mira

Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation know Q as omnipotent alien with a mind like a supercomputer. Technophiles know Q as… Read More

April 26, 2012

Extreme data power

To move toward exascale computing, scientists must focus on saving energy used in computing in every possible way. The energy-conservation… Read More

March 27, 2012

Power players

Fast in supercomputing used to be so simple. The fastest supercomputer was the one that could perform the most flops,… Read More

February 21, 2012

High-nanotech

Intel released a novel transistor last year, the Tri-Gate, which replaced a two-dimensional flat planar gate with a 3-D silicon… Read More

January 31, 2012