A Cornell University fellow develops strategies to extract more than correlations from algorithms’ predictions. Respiratory illness levels in the counties surrounding California’s 2018 Camp Fire ...
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 ...
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 ...
A UCSD fellow’s geodynamic model offers answers to stubborn questions about Venus’ surface. As a third-year Ph.D. student, Madeleine Kerr faced a critical decision. At the University of California San ...
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 ...
A fourth-year fellow probes cloud droplets to boost climate predictions. When Emily de Jong arrived at Caltech for her Ph.D. in 2019, she’d done internships in the oil industry and thought that she ...
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 ...
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 ...
Space is making a big comeback. This past year alone, billionaires have launched themselves into orbit, China sent a spacecraft to Mars and NASA’s Mars helicopter traveled the farthest distance yet ...
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 ...
A Georgia Tech fellow models renewable energy and other problems with ever-changing unknowns. Real-world modeling problems are rife with uncertainty and complicated interactions. To maximize profits, ...
Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...