June 2011
Passing it on
A message passing interface chameleon brings an ever-expanding list of parallel capabilities to nearly any computer.
Category Archives: Computer Science
May 2011
Scaling up for security
Bigger computers will boost science to help secure the nation.
August 2009
One-sided story
LBNL researchers are out to break supercomputing bottlenecks with UPC, a code that cuts communication to one direction.
June 2009
Annotated and automated
Computer scientists must tweak codes to optimize performance on today’s supercomputers. Orio uses annotations to automate the process.
April 2009
Consistently inconsistent
Sandia’s Debusschere earns honors for sorting out uncertainty.
March 2009
Lightweight heavyweight
Barney Maccabe’s helping bring petascale computing into the mainstream of scientific computing – and practicing his substantial hockey skills.
February 2009
Moving mounds of data
The increasing power of high-performance computers has created a parallel increase in the data they process and produce.
December 2008
More than a bit faster
An eight-year effort to improve database indexing is paying off for a group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers with FastBit.
November 2008
Quiet, please
University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratory researchers have ideas for quieting operating-system noise.
August 2007
Optimistic about optimization
Cynthia Phillips and colleagues devise algorithms that let computers solve complex optimization problems.