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.
Category Archives: Profiles in Computing
December 2008
Interfaces move; algorithms follow
For almost 30 years, LBNL mathematician James Sethian has been building code for better semiconductors, improved medical images and other practical applications.
July 2007
Supercomputer saga
The 1973 oil embargo changed how Americans think about energy and altered science’s path. Alvin Trivelpiece had a lot to do with that change.
June 2007
Computing climate
Models that the DOE program CHAMMP improved more than a decade ago still contribute to global climate science.
April 2007
Message passing passage
The big computers of today might not have been possible if some dedicated experts hadn’t gathered at an ‘unappetizing’ hotel in the 1990s.