Archive of past stories
More than a bit faster (December 23, 2008)
An eight-year effort to improve database indexing is paying off
for a group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers.
FastBit, their program to accelerate searches, recently earned
recognition as a promising technology.
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Computing climate (June 18, 2007)
When it comes to improving computer climate models and making
them run on powerful machines, one Department of Energy program
was the CHAMMP. Models it improved more than a decade ago
still contribute to global climate change science.
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Message passing passage (April 16, 2007)
The big computers of today might not have been possible
if some dedicated experts hadn’t gathered at an
“unappetizing” hotel in the 1990s. The
standard they created is used on virtually every high-performance
computer today.
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