Computer Science

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

Neutron stream

If you’ve ever watched video over a slow Internet connection, you have some idea of what scientists face when working… Read More

June 26, 2013

Data wave

Big data extends far beyond its literal interpretation. It’s more than large volumes of information. It’s also complexity, including new… Read More

May 1, 2013