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March 2010

A well-placed plug for the humble algorithm

March 16th, 2010 Updated: March 27th, 2019

The ceremony in the East Room of the White House, where President Obama bestowed the National Medal of Science on Berni Alder last October, represented the public side of the honor. But for Alder the real action occurred after the ceremony, at a White House meeting for invited guests, politicians, family and other Washington dignitaries. […]

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The master of Monte Carlo

March 16th, 2010 Updated: November 30th, 2011

Berni Alder’s Monte Carlo methods have solved problems across the scientific spectrum. Yet the Livermore-based National Medal of Science-recipient still has questions.

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Going big to study small

March 1st, 2010 Updated: March 16th, 2011

It takes a big computer to model very small things. And, like its namesake state, New York Blue is big. Made up of 36,864 processors, the massively parallel IBM Blue Gene/L is housed at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on New York’s Long Island, where, among other things, it’s used to model quantum dots, or […]

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Putting catalysts on track

March 1st, 2010 Updated: March 16th, 2011

Computation and experimentation combine to improve and speed design of useful compounds.

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