November 2012
Cosmic performance
A universe evolution simulation scores petaflops performance.
Author Archives: Bill Cannon
October 2012
Water, water everywhere
An MIT group taps thin carbon and computing to rid water of salt.
October 2012
Proxy apps for that
Exascale computing architects use proxy apps to mimic big codes.
October 2012
Looking skyward
Northwestern University researcher Jorge Nocedal’s algorithms improve global weather predictions and help boost energy efficiency in skyscrapers. His work earned him the 2012 George B. Dantzig Prize.
September 2012
Sphere of influence
Los Alamos researchers have re-partitioned our planetary sphere to focus on regions of particular interest in global climate models.
August 2012
Big data, big pictures
Exaflops-capable computers will pose challenges for translating computer simulation results into understandable images without sapping computer power.
July 2012
Good combination
Combinatorial scientific computing, or CSC, has helped reveal new ways of understanding deep, hidden structure in our world, in areas from genomics to engineering.
May 2012
Blueprints for power
Computer designers are rethinking nearly everything in their quest to develop systems capable of exaflops-speed calculations.
May 2012
Feasible fuels
Large-scale computing proves an important tool for testing hypotheses about cellulose-derived fuels.
April 2012
Mira, Mira
At 10 petaflops, the Blue Gene/Q supercomputer known as Mira will about about 20 times more powerful than the current-generation machines.