March 2023
Cosmic coding
Berkeley Lab and Argonne computational cosmologists help astronomers turn observation into insight.
Category Archives: Astrophysics
December 2021
ExaStar power
A Berkeley Lab-led Exascale Computing Project team prepares to aim the world’s most powerful computers at the cosmos.
April 2021
Dishing up the early universe
The Summit supercomputer tunes up for galaxies’ worth of radio-telescope data.
July 2020
Supernova plunge
Astrophysicists use DOE supercomputers to reveal supernovae secrets.
December 2018
Astronomical magnetism
Modeling solar and planetary magnetic fields is a big job that requires a big code.
September 2018
Superstars’ secrets
Supercomputing power and algorithms are helping astrophysicists untangle giant stars’ brightness, temperature and chemical variations.
July 2018
Galactic-wind whisperers
UC Santa Cruz and Princeton University team simulates galactic winds on the DOE’s Titan supercomputer.
May 2018
Balancing the load
Los Alamos researchers develop code to distribute computation more efficiently and across increasing numbers of supercomputer processors.
October 2017
A Spark in the dark
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.
September 2017
Dramatic flares
Supercomputing aids experiments in sorting out the hidden mechanics of magnetic field reconnection, a key factor in solar storms and fusion energy reactors.