GPU Computing Ushers in Progress
Posted on Jan 11th, 2011
In the future, 2010 may be known as the year of the GPU, or at least its big debut. China stole TOP500 glory using the massively parellel processing power of ...
Virtual School of Computational Science Educates Record Number of Participants This Summer
Posted on Sep 30th, 2010
This summer, over 1,000 graduate students and researchers registered for courses offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering. The courses were designed for those who want to ...
Why the U.S. must lead in supercomputing
Posted on Jun 16th, 2010
China officially claimed the world's second-fastest computer earlier this month. China was in fifth place just six months ago - and is expected to have the world's fastest machine by ...
Jaguar remains top supercomputer; China’s Nebulae No. 2
Posted on Jun 1st, 2010
China's ambition to enter the supercomputing arena has become obvious with a system called Nebulae, built from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel X5650 processors and NVIDIA Tesla C2050 ...
Oak Ridge supercomputers to model nuclear reactors
Posted on Jun 1st, 2010
The future of nuclear energy will be found in software. The Department of Energy announced this week it will spend $122 million over the next five years to establish and ...
Introducing the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer for Climate Research
Posted on May 25th, 2010
A supercomputer that will likely be able to perform around 1 million billion calculations in a second (a petaflop) will be solely dedicated to climate change research. This week supercomputer ...
Advancing the Nuclear Enterprise Through Better Computing
Posted on May 19th, 2010
Scientists 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 with high-performance ...
Supercomputers Put Charge into Battery Research
Posted on May 18th, 2010
The idea of using lithium-air batteries to power electric cars has been around since the 1990s, but the last few years has seen a big upsurge in interest for this ...
Innovation: Why labs love gaming hardware
Posted on May 11th, 2010
Innovation is our regular column that highlights emerging technological ideas and where they may lead
Blasting zombies may seem to have little to do with serious research, but video game hardware ...
World’s No. 1 computer has long list of tasks
Posted on Feb 9th, 2010
Being fast is important - and having the world's fastest computer is even better - but it's what you do with that speed that really counts, according to Oak Ridge ...
