Bill Cannon

Digging up FOSLS

If you’ve ever unknotted a gnarled garden hose to let water flow freely, you may have an elementary feeling for… Read More

June 4, 2007

Code collaboration

Ravi Samtaney knew computer resources beyond anything practically available would be required to run codes he designed to simulate a… Read More

June 4, 2007

Filling cavities virtually

Building a particle accelerator is no small undertaking. These huge closed-loop devices can run for miles underground. Inside, scientists generate… Read More

April 16, 2007

Message passing passage

The high-performance computers that enable today’s cutting-edge science would be radically different – and less efficient – if some dedicated experts hadn’t… Read More

April 16, 2007

Putting the pieces together

In a project that harks back to the days of computer pioneer John Von Neumann, scientists at Sandia National Laboratories… Read More

April 16, 2007

Sniffing out bad code

When Bart Miller became interested in code debugging, he had no idea it would lead him into the world of… Read More

April 16, 2007

Calculating error pollution

J. Tinsley Oden of the University of Texas has a favorite quote from German science philosopher Hans Reichenbach: “If error… Read More

April 16, 2007

Speed demon

As Todd Munson writes computer code and develops algorithms – mathematical recipes – he gets the greatest kick out of making his… Read More

April 16, 2007

MADNESS makes sense

George Fann says there’s no hidden meaning behind the name he and his fellow researchers chose for their scientific software… Read More

April 16, 2007