Posts By Eric Gedenk

Often, researchers aim for a distant horizon with respect to their research goals. When they get there, they plot their course for the next far-off landmark.

Throughout the 20th century, …
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Photosynthesis, the method plants use to convert energy from the sun into food, is a ubiquitous process many people learn about in elementary school. Almost all plants use photosynthesis to …
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With the advent of laser technology in the 1960s, materials scientists gained a new tool to both study and modify materials. Today, lasers allow researchers to manipulate materials on atomic …
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For several years, a team led by Virginia Tech’s James McClure has been using computation to study subsurface multiphase flows. Researchers studying multiphase flows are essentially studying the interaction of …
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Farmington, Connecticut–based United Technologies Corporation (UTC) provides high-technology systems and services to the building and aerospace industries worldwide.  The corporation’s research and innovation arm, United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), supports …
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Scientists are only beginning to understand the laws that govern the atomic world.

Before the 1950s the electrons, neutrons, and protons comprising atoms were the smallest confirmed units of matter. …
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Managing, moving, and securely storing data are becoming ubiquitous parts of many industries. As more industries continue to modernize, the demand for experts in data center management will only continue …
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For nearly 40 years the United States and Japan have collaborated on making the dream of limitless clean energy a reality. In 1980 the two countries created the US-Japan Joint …
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Staff members involved in high-performance computing at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) stand at the intersection of many scientific disciplines and try to create …
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Simply put, physicists study energy, matter, and how the two interact. Through the years researchers have cataloged countless phenomena relating to these complex interactions.

As science has advanced, researchers have …
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For more than 30 years, high-performance computing (HPC) experts from around the world have gathered to share supercomputing ideas, insights, and innovations at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC).

This year’s …
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Researchers from commercial and industrial property insurer FM Global want to improve fire protection standards across the country.

The company, which insures one in three Fortune 1000 companies with a …
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In 2006, Make: magazine created an event aimed at bringing together its DIY-inspired readers to share homemade innovations ranging from life-sized robots to powerful small-scale computers. Such events, dubbed Maker …
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For decades nuclear physicists have tried to learn more about which elements, or their various isotopes, are “magic.”

This is not to say that they display supernatural powers. Magic atomic …
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During the four-day GPU Technology Conference, OLCF user support specialist led efforts to train users for Titan and prepare applications for Summit, the OLCF’s next supercomputer, set to be delivering science in 2018.
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Seeking to improve their knowledge of heterogeneous high-performance computing architectures, researchers at oil and gas company Total have been working with OLCF experts to improve their computational models.
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