Archive of past stories

Coal conversion technology gets computational tweaks
(September 11, 2009)
Scientists are using the world’s most powerful computer for open science to guide engineers designing bigger, more efficient reactors to convert coal into synthetic gas. The work could help make a ubiquitous energy source gentler on the environment.
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Tracking contamination from reservation to river
(June 26, 2009)
Scientists are using the world’s most powerful computer for open science to guide engineers designing bigger, more efficient reactors to convert coal into synthetic gas. The work could help make a ubiquitous energy source gentler on the environment.
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Research gets to heart of arrhythmia causes
(May 7, 2009)
For millions of people, disease can derail the sequence of chemical and electrical events that make heart muscles contract, causing dangerous arrhythmias. Scientists are using computer models to understand these problems.
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Methods model flows and assess uncertainty
(February 9, 2009)
Two brothers are developing mathematical models of subsurface flow and transport to better understand things like how contaminants migrate through groundwater. They're also quantifying the uncertainty of these and other models.
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Collaboration fuses codes for efficient simulation
(June 4, 2007)
Ravi Samtaney knew computer resources beyond anything practically available would be required to run codes he designed to simulate a reactor the size of ITER, the international experiment to develop commercially feasible fusion energy.
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Collaborative effort helps optimize cavities in accelerators
(April 16, 2007)
When they’re miles around and buried underground, it’s tough to improve particle-smashing accelerators – unless you use simulation, as a collaboration between computer researchers and physicists did.
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