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Multitalented metric

An alternative computing benchmark emerges to reflect scientific performance. Read More

May, 2016

Bright future

The smart grid turns to high-performance computing to guide its development and keep it working. Read More

February, 2016

Powering down

PNNL team views 'undervolting' — turning down the power supplied to processors — as a way to make exascale computing… Read More

December, 2015

Analysis restaurant

The AnalyzeThis system deals with the rush of huge data-analysis orders typical in scientific computing. Read More

November, 2015

Noisy universe

Berkeley Lab cosmologists sift tsunamis of data for signals from the birth of galaxies. Read More

September, 2015

Layered look

With help from the Titan supercomputer, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is peering at the chemistry and physics between… Read More

August, 2015

Bits of corruption

Los Alamos’ extensive study of HPC platforms finds silent data corruption in scientific computing – but not much. Read More

July, 2015

Sneak kaboom

At Argonne, research teams turn to supercomputing to study a phenomenon that can trigger surprisingly powerful explosions. Read More

April, 2015

Slippery subject

University of Texas researchers are out to improve computational models of ice sheets by refining estimates of basal friction: how… Read More

February, 2015

A smashing success

The world's particle colliders unite to share and analyze massive volumes of data. Read More

December, 2014