Today, the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) announced that its scientists have successfully completed the first full-scale simulation of an operating nuclear reactor. CASL is modeling nuclear ...
General Physics
Jul 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Data harvested from the sky may give researchers a view into the future of food production while opening insights to the implications of climate change.
Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2013
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Knowing how enzymes work is key to control the chemical processes involving these biological macromolecules that have countless applications in the fields of medicine and industry. Computational chemistry has enabled to draw ...
Biochemistry
Jun 27, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Taking a page from computer-aided drug designers, Rice University researchers have developed a computational method that chemists can use to tailor the properties of zeolites, one of the world's most-used industrial ...
Materials Science
Jun 18, 2013
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A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced Monday, comfortably overtaking a US machine which now ranks second.
Hardware
Jun 17, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light.
Astronomy
Jun 14, 2013
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The University of California, San Diego has deployed a new high-performance research computing system called the Triton Shared Computing Cluster, or TSCC, serving researchers at UC San Diego and any of the other UC campuses ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 11, 2013
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(Phys.org) —How is this for bragging rights in the always-on title grab for the world's fastest supercomputer: China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, aka Milkyway-2, recently measured at speeds of 31 petaflops (30.65) out of a ...
An unprecedented trillion-particle simulation, which utilized more than 120,000 processors and generated approximately 350 terabytes of data, pushed the performance capability of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 3, 2013
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When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several different supercomputers located around the world to create their predictions.
Earth Sciences
May 29, 2013
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