Archive of past stories
Speed bump (April 16, 2007)
Computer scientists helped bump up the speed with which a combustion simulation program
ran by as much as 10 times. The simulation ran on some of the world’s most
powerful high-performance computers.
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Huge star explosions give clues to life’s origins (July 2, 2007)
A simulation of the deaths of massive stars is shedding
light on the origin of everything, from the iron in our
blood to the planet we live on.
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