February 2023
Piecing together HPC and a career
ASCR’s outgoing associate director reflects on a decades-long career that took her from a helpdesk to overseeing DOE’s supercomputing facilities.
Category Archives: Profiles in Computing
August 2022
Riding RAPIDS
The SciDAC program boosted this Argonne scientist’s career. Now he’s returning the favor, helping lead SciDAC into the AI and exascale eras.
March 2022
Pi in the sky
A Pi Day celebration of the pi-dependent algorithm and the computational science pioneer who transformed climate modeling.
April 2016
CSI: Brookhaven
Lab aims to go from after-the-fact scientific data analysis to real-time interpretation.
October 2012
Looking skyward
Northwestern University researcher Jorge Nocedal’s algorithms improve global weather predictions and help boost energy efficiency in skyscrapers. His work earned him the 2012 George B. Dantzig Prize.
July 2012
Good combination
Combinatorial scientific computing, or CSC, has helped reveal new ways of understanding deep, hidden structure in our world, in areas from genomics to engineering.
November 2010
Honoring a climate model pioneer
Warren Washington has wedded computers and climate science for more than 50 years, culminating in the National Medal of Science.
March 2010
Early risers
August 2009
Conquering unfriendly skies
Through difficulty, Berkeley Lab’s Cecilia Aragon soars to the stars.
August 2009
An explosive past
In the past few decades, computation has become so critical that combustion experimentation through simulation has become the only game in town.