At Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to more than 100 supercomputers since the dawn of the computing era, elegance and simplicity of programming are highly valued but not always achieved. In the case of a new product, ...
Hardware
Jun 7, 2017
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A software toolkit developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to better understand supercomputer performance is now being used to boost application performance for researchers ...
Hardware
Jun 1, 2017
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Most methods for the structural characterization of biomolecules, such as X-ray crystallography or electron microscopy, require static or crystallized samples. Attaching fluorescent molecules to protein surfaces, however, ...
Biochemistry
May 31, 2017
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A theoretical model that explains how heat flows from graphene could help improve the design of nanoscale devices, say A*STAR scientists.
Nanomaterials
May 31, 2017
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An international, multidisciplinary research team, including an engineering professor at the University of Arkansas, has discovered a mechanism that controls the formation and function of plate-like nanocrystals that play ...
Bio & Medicine
May 31, 2017
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For almost a decade, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been enabling scientists to develop a greater understanding of – and, in some cases, rewrite – the laws of physics.
General Physics
May 30, 2017
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Some scientists dream about big data. The dream bridges two divided realms. One realm holds lofty peaks of number-crunching scientific computation. Endless waves of big data analysis line the other realm. A deep chasm separates ...
Computer Sciences
May 10, 2017
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Tiny spirals of magnetism called skyrmions could be used as ultrahigh density energy-efficient data carriers.
Nanophysics
May 10, 2017
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Computer scientist Gonzalo Rodrigo at Umeå University in Sweden has developed new techniques and tools to manage high performance computing systems more efficiently. This in an effort to comply with the increasing demand ...
Computer Sciences
May 3, 2017
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When Shuaiwen Leon Song boots up Doom 3 and Half-life 2, he does so in the name of science. Song studies high performance computing at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with the goal of making computers smaller, faster ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 20, 2017
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