Half of the earth’s population is under 30 years old. Multiple surveys show that this age group—and much of the rest of earth’s citizens—believe among the top three threats to global society is climate change. Scientists around the world are working on mitigating the causes of this problem. Among them are researchers at Danmarks Tekniske…
A Little Mixing Goes a Long Way: Breakthroughs in Simulating Tides’ Impacts on Global Ocean Circulation
In so many systems—physical, chemical, social—big and important changes start at small scales. Recent research is revealing the extent of this within our oceans, allowing scientists to gain better insight of small-scale effects on key planetary systems and helping them plan new satellite missions. Teams led by Professor Brian Arbic of the University of Michigan…
Canada’s Most Powerful Research Supercomputer Simulates Life of a Star
Lately, it seems that not a month goes by before we hear of discovery of yet another extrasolar planet (or exoplanet)—a planet orbiting a distant star. As of May 1, 2018, 3,767 exoplanets have been confirmed in 2,816 star systems. To help drive the extensive search for extrasolar planets, NASA installed sensors in the Keppler…
Supercomputing in Nanoseconds Reveals Insights of Galactic Scale
What was the first galaxy you looked at through a telescope? M31, Andromeda? M33, Triangulum? Galaxies are fascinating to look at, especially when you look at one that is somewhat like our own Milky Way, such as Andromeda. It gives you a sense of reference, like ‘I am here’ in the universe. And that’s important,…
Supercomputing in Nanoseconds Reveals Insight of Galactic Scale
What was the first galaxy you looked at through a telescope? M31, Andromeda? M33, Triangulum? Galaxies are fascinating to look at, especially when you look at one that is somewhat like our own Milky Way, such as Andromeda. It gives you a sense of reference, like ‘I am here’ in the universe. And that’s important,…
Beyond the Standard Model – Explorations in Particle Physics
Transforming Next-Generation Sequencing
Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies and techniques have improved the productivity and accuracy of DNA sequencers. The benefits of Moore’s Law are reducing the cost of the High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities needed to perform the alignment and other workflow steps on the outputs from NGS sequencing machines. These two trends deliver tremendous benefit to advancing…
Optimizing Physics, Computational Science at Princeton University
What does it take to understand a black hole, those amazing astronomical features at the center of every galaxy, including our Milky Way? A lot of complex computational science done on supercomputers by researchers like Professor Jim Stone at Princeton University. Dr. Stone is Chair of Princeton’s Astrophysics Department. He is also director of the…