News tagged with supercomputer simulation

Supercomputer reveals new details behind drug-processing protein model

Supercomputer simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are giving scientists unprecedented access to a key class of proteins involved in drug detoxification.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Astronomers pin down galaxy collision rate

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of images from the Hubble Space Telescope combined with supercomputer simulations of galaxy collisions has cleared up years of confusion about the rate at which smaller galaxies ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists release most accurate simulation of the universe to date

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date, gives physicists and astronomers a powerful new tool for understanding such ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Simulating turbulent combustion speeds design

Air and fuel mix violently during turbulent combustion. The ferocious mixing needed to ignite fuel and sustain its burning is governed by the same fluid dynamics equations that depict smoke swirling lazily ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Special report highlights 'greatest hits' of scientific supercomputing

In 2007, a report that concluded that the Earth was warming, probably as a result of human activities, resulted in a share of the Nobel Peace Prize. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

U.Va.'s Pfister accomplishes breakthrough toward quantum computing

A sort of Holy Grail for physicists and information scientists is the quantum computer. Such a computer, operating on the highly complex principles of quantum mechanics, would be capable of performing specific calculations ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Japanese supercomputer becomes world's fastest (Update)

A Japanese supercomputer has become the fastest in the world, making calculations more than three times faster than a Chinese rival, its developers said Monday.

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 13

Using supercomputers to understand the super stars of the cosmos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it a high-speed graphic animation of a yellow-golden cauliflower erupting in fast motion? No. Maybe it's some kind of time-lapse, computer-generated X-ray of a brain as it grows over years. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough study confirms cause of short gamma-ray bursts

A new supercomputer simulation shows the collision of two neutron stars can naturally produce the magnetic structures thought to power the high-speed particle jets associated with short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

'Fingerprints' match simulations with reality

A theoretical technique developed at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is bringing supercomputer simulations and experimental results closer together by identifying common "fingerprints."

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Using supercomputers to explore ice sheet dynamics

Recently, Rhode Island-sized chunks of ice have separated from Greenland and Antarctica, garnering worldwide attention. But is this calving due to typical seasonal variations or a long-term warmer world? Climate ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

'Fingerprints' match molecular simulations with reality

A theoretical technique developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is bringing supercomputer simulations and experimental results closer together by identifying common "fingerprints."

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Supercomputing on a cell phone

Many engineering disciplines rely on supercomputers to simulate complicated physical phenomena — how cracks form in building materials, for instance, or fluids flow through irregular channels. Now, researchers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Image: Colliding galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day website has published an image taken from the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter. The image, posted July 2, is that of the Keenan system of colliding galaxies and was ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists Produce 3-D Models of BP Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico Using Ranger Supercomputer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are using the Ranger supercomputer to produce 3-D simulations of the impact of BP's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 04, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1