Ramanan Sankaran and his Oak Ridge National Laboratory colleagues have been setting up to run their combustion simulations on Titan,… Read More
Computer scientist Maya Gokhale is optimistic about exascale computing’s fast, bright future. But to achieve this success, the Lawrence Livermore… Read More
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Achieving exascale computing will depend on many interacting parts. That requirement spawned the idea of co-design, in which developers consider… Read More
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Each element of any computer model comes with uncertainty – imprecision springing from indefinite data, poorly understood physical properties and inexactness… Read More
Part of the Science at the Exascale series. Researchers building and programming potent computers of the future face many of… Read More