Bill Cannon

Adding exascale to energy

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. Energy science is a broad field that encompasses a diverse group of… Read More

August 11, 2011

The cloud versus E. coli

When biologists needed to quickly analyze strains suspected in the E. coli outbreak still reverberating through Europe, the Department of Energy’s… Read More

July 5, 2011

Visualization visionary

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but when a star explodes, a flame burns or cells divide uncontrollably… Read More

June 28, 2011

Passing it on

Computing’s rapid evolution demands equally fast changes in software. Users want programs that run on any machine, from a laptop… Read More

June 14, 2011

Sun-power seed

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. If clean, abundant energy from nuclear fusion – the process that generates the… Read More

May 26, 2011

Scaling up for security

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. When someone mentions national security and computation, the phrase “war games” probably… Read More

May 5, 2011

Pinpointing proteins

Anyone who has tried to match an unfamiliar bird’s features to its field guide portrait knows that reality rarely provides… Read More

March 30, 2011

Simulating Life

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. Simulating biology won’t be extremely useful without extreme-scale computing. Biology demands a… Read More

March 14, 2011

Fiber into fuel

A biomass bonanza surrounds the Ames Laboratory offices of Mark Gordon, Monica Lamm and Theresa Windus – if only they can… Read More

March 3, 2011

Galaxy and gluons

Part of the Science at the Exascale series. Alex Szalay looks to the skies to study the universe’s largest structures. Frank Würthwein… Read More

March 1, 2011