Experimentalists from all over the world visit Argonne each year to use the ultra-bright X-ray photon beams produced here to peer inside materials. Research teams with beamline reservations, or ‘beamtime,’ are expected to set up, calibrate the detector, and man…
Advances in Leadership Computing, the first of a two-part CiSE Special Issue on Leadership Computing, is now available online. In two consecutive publications, this special issue will explore nine projects that are using leadership systems to expand the frontiers of…
Digitized museum collections are the next ‘big data’ dataset The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago holds a massive pinned insect collection of roughly 4.5 million specimens, dating back at least a century and contributed by entomologists and private…
Each year, the DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research program, or ASCR, dedicates roughly 30% of the computing resources at its three supercomputing facilities to projects pursuing DOE mission research. The yearlong ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) awards, which begin July…
A team of scientists has, for the first time, calculated several fundamental properties of the carbon-12 nucleus using one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, setting the stage for more reliable neutrino detector calibrations and better supernovae explosion simulations. The work,…
The discovery last year at CERN of the Higgs boson — a particle that may well be responsible for all the mass in the universe — was momentous to physicists everywhere. The revelation of Higgs is critical to validating a…