Madeleine Kerr was a double major in physics and theater at Harvey Mudd College and studied acting at a London conservatory ...

“I love Venus,” she says. “It’s Earth’s evil twin.” The two planets are about the same size, but the differences are stark.

Los Alamos’ extensive study of HPC platforms finds silent data corruption in scientific computing – but not much. “Silent data corruption,” or SDC, sounds like a menacing malady. SDC, Los Alamos ...

Pairing large-scale experiments with high-performance computing can reduce data processing time from several hours to minutes. High-performance computing (HPC) and concurrent software improvements are ...

A Brookhaven National Laboratory computer scientist is building software to help researchers interact with their data in new ways. Scientific imaging data sets are ballooning in size and complexity.

As a young scientist experimenting with neutrons and X-rays, Kevin Yager often heard this mantra: “Don’t waste beamtime.” Maximizing productive use of the potent and popular facilities that generate ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory models the blood-brain barrier to find ways for drugs to reach their target. Stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and many other medical conditions that attack the brain ...

Anda Trifan, a multilingual Romanian émigré, planned on an international business career and chose DePaul University for its strength in the subject. But “about a week before school started, I called ...

ORNL’s Titan supercomputer is helping Brookhaven physicists understand the matter that formed microseconds after the Big Bang. At the dawn of the universe – just after the Big Bang – all matter was in ...

Sandia supercomputer simulations of atomic behavior under extreme conditions advances materials modeling. Imagine a computer simulation of molten aluminum at a scorching temperature, portraying nearly ...

Argonne’s Joe Insley combines art and computer science to build intricate images and animations from supercomputer simulations. This video includes a collage of images and a supernova simulation ...

The next supercomputer frontier presents a journey into the unknown unlike any other, Tzanio Kolev says. Exascale computers, the first of which are expected to begin operation in 2021, will perform a ...