Cosmic coding
Berkeley Lab and Argonne computational cosmologists help astronomers turn observation into insight.
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Berkeley Lab and Argonne computational cosmologists help astronomers turn observation into insight.
A Berkeley Lab-led Exascale Computing Project team prepares to aim the world’s most powerful computers at the cosmos.
The Summit supercomputer tunes up for galaxies’ worth of radio-telescope data.
Astrophysicists use DOE supercomputers to reveal supernovae secrets.
Modeling solar and planetary magnetic fields is a big job that requires a big code.
Supercomputing power and algorithms are helping astrophysicists untangle giant stars’ brightness, temperature and chemical variations.
UC Santa Cruz and Princeton University team simulates galactic winds on the DOE’s Titan supercomputer.
Los Alamos researchers develop code to distribute computation more efficiently and across increasing numbers of supercomputer processors.
The cosmological search in the dark is no walk in the park. With help from Berkeley Lab’s NERSC, Fermilab aims open-source software at data from high-energy physics.
Supercomputing aids experiments in sorting out the hidden mechanics of magnetic field reconnection, a key factor in solar storms and fusion energy reactors.