News articles tagged with 'supercomputer'
Supercomputing research opens doors for drug discovery
— 10 Dec 2010 21:36 | HealthA quicker and cheaper technique to scan molecular databases developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could put scientists on the fast track to developing…
Pushing black-hole mergers to the extreme: RIT scientists achieve 100:1 mass ratio
— 19 Nov 2010 12:11 | AstronomyScientists have simulated, for the first time, the merger of two black holes of vastly different sizes, with one mass 100 times larger than the other. This extreme mass ratio of 100:1…
New view of tectonic plates
— 28 Aug 2010 09:43 | Geology and palaeontologyComputational scientists and geophysicists at the University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed new computer algorithms that for…
Researchers seeking the fourth property of electrons
— 21 Jul 2010 07:39 | PhysicsElectrons are negatively charged elementary particles. They form the shells around atoms and ions. This or something similar is what you will find in text books. Soon, however, this…
Rice program takes on protein puzzle
— 8 Jul 2010 09:00 | HealthAll proteins self-assemble in a fraction of the blink of an eye, but it can take a long time to mimic the process. And there has been no guarantee of success, even with the most powerful…
Over two billion hours served
— 19 Jun 2010 10:19 | TechnologyThe Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has run over two billion processor-hours of computations…
3-D model of blood flow by supercomputer predicts heart attacks
— 20 May 2010 16:09 | HealthEPFL Laboratory of Multiscale Modelling of Materials, in Switzerland, has developed a flowing 3D model of the cardiovascular system that should allow for predictions of certain heart…
Advancing the nuclear enterprise through better computing
— 19 May 2010 12:05 | TechnologyScientists at the Nuclear Science and Technology Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are merging decades of nuclear energy and safety expertise…
Iowa State, Ames Lab researchers preparing for Blue Waters supercomputer
— 28 Apr 2010 12:13 | TechnologyThey can't wait to do computational chemistry at a quadrillion calculations per second. But it's not all that computing power that's driving three Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory…
Cat brain: A step toward the electronic equivalent
— 15 Apr 2010 08:32 | TechnologyA cat can recognise a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. That's one reason a feline brain is the model for a biologically-inspired computer project involving the…