A quantum bridge
Sandia National Laboratories researchers seek to connect quantum and classical calculations in a drive for a new supercomputer paradigm.
Higher learning
Computational Science Graduate Fellow Alnur Ali rides an early career at Microsoft to the upper ranks of machine-learning research.
Cloud forebear
A data-management system called PanDA anticipated cloud computing to analyze the universe’s building blocks.
Powering down
PNNL team views ‘undervolting’ — turning down the power supplied to processors — as a way to make exascale computing feasible.
Bits of corruption
Los Alamos’ extensive study of HPC platforms finds silent data corruption in scientific computing – but not much.
Undersea link to LHC
The Energy Science Network, the high-speed fiber optic data pipeline that has connected all 17 U.S. national laboratories for almost
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A smashing success
The world’s particle colliders unite to share and analyze massive volumes of data.
Joint venture
Sandia National Laboratories investigators turn to advanced modeling to test the reliability of the joints that hold nuclear missiles together.
Star power
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher simulates the physics that fuel the sun, with an eye toward creating a controllable fusion device that can deliver abundant, carbon-free energy.
Small team carries large load
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Ronald Minnich calls the desktop-extension supercomputing project a large effort with a small team. “To
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Laptop supercomputing
A small team led by Sandia National Laboratories is attempting to virtually put the world’s most powerful supercomputers on a user’s own desktop or laptop.
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