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

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

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 ...

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

The AnalyzeThis system deals with the rush of huge data-analysis orders typical in scientific computing. High-performance computing (HPC) systems are like a burgeoning restaurant that can’t widen its ...

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-Rutgers group uses supercomputing to target the most promising drug candidates from a daunting number of possibilities. Identifying the optimal drug treatment is like hitting a moving ...

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.

Because most cancers are difficult to treat, scientists have long sought the disease’s Achilles’ heel. In some cases, identifying an errant protein or the biological pathway it uses to damage cells ...

Computational Science at the National LaboratoriesDEIXIS: Computational Science at the National Labs is the frequently updated online companion to the eponymous annual publication of the Computational ...

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 ...

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 ...