Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...

Los Alamos’ extensive study of HPC platforms finds silent data corruption in scientific computing – but not much. “Silent data corruption,” or SDC, sounds like a menacing malady. SDC, Los Alamos ...

A UCSD fellow’s geodynamic model offers answers to stubborn questions about Venus’ surface. As a third-year Ph.D. student, Madeleine Kerr faced a critical decision. At the University of California San ...

A fellowship alumnus helps himself and others to research on Argonne's Aurora supercomputer. Kyle Felker’s job can be as unpredictable as the hot, violent plasma he studies. As a computational ...

When Daniel Abdulah learned to write, his earliest scribbles included the names of planets, in order, alongside little drawings of each one. That early fascination with worlds beyond Earth never ...

Anda Trifan, a multilingual Romanian émigré, planned on an international business career and chose DePaul University for its strength in the subject. But “about a week before school started, I called ...

Three years ago, Carlyn Schmidgall joined a dozen other researchers aboard a ship off Nome, Alaska, to collect high-resolution data that could reveal small-scale processes with big implications for ...

The next supercomputer frontier presents a journey into the unknown unlike any other, Tzanio Kolev says. Exascale computers, the first of which are expected to begin operation in 2021, will perform a ...

Argonne’s Joe Insley combines art and computer science to build intricate images and animations from supercomputer simulations. This video includes a collage of images and a supernova simulation ...

ORNL’s Titan supercomputer is helping Brookhaven physicists understand the matter that formed microseconds after the Big Bang. At the dawn of the universe – just after the Big Bang – all matter was in ...

The processor in your home’s wireless router could boost the speed of tomorrow’s high-performance computing (HPC) systems. These computer chips, called field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), can be ...

Joy Kitson’s path to predicting how pandemics spread began toward the end of her freshman year at the University of Delaware. That summer, while interpreting soil moisture data from satellites to help ...