Computer Science

High-performing hybrid

Jarrod McClean and his Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory colleagues want to simulate and predict the chemistry and properties of advanced… Read More

June 1, 2016

Ghost writer

Processor cores in a giant supercomputer want data delivery that’s fast and efficient. It’s a difficult goal to achieve in… Read More

March 17, 2016

Moving target

When thinking about the Analysis in Motion (AIM) program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), it helps to compare it… Read More

February 29, 2016

Tackling a trillion

To study the development of the universe or plasma physics, scientists run into what could be the biggest big-data problem:… Read More

November 16, 2015

Cleansed coal

Coal produces 39 percent of America’s electricity, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports. It’s everywhere, and the United States can… Read More

May 13, 2015

Checking it out

On September 4, 2010, enormous slabs of rock under New Zealand grated against each other, releasing pressures built up by… Read More

February 26, 2015

Multitasking pileup

By the middle of the next decade, the fastest supercomputers will have problems akin to those of home-repair TV-show hosts… Read More

January 29, 2015

Time-honored

A typical global climate model does about a thousand trillion calculations to simulate a single year’s worth of interactions among… Read More

November 6, 2014

Dimensions on a diet

As a young musician, Paul Constantine enjoyed exploring variations on Caribbean drum rhythms and new arrangements of jazz chord progressions.… Read More

June 4, 2014

Working through error

Like professional athletes, supercomputers must play smarter just to stay in the game. Once athletes reach their personal limits for… Read More

July 24, 2013