Editorial
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Driving R&D through supercomputing
ORNL is providing leadership for the supercomputing revolution by fielding the most capable machines, developing the enabling software and applying supercomputing across a broad spectrum of science and technology challenges. More...
Features
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Solvable problems
Increasing computational resources provides scientists with the opportunity to simulate whatever phenomenon or problem they're looking at with considerably more fidelity. More...
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Moving to Titan
When Titan is available to users in the first half of 2013, it will be
more powerful than any computer now in existence. More...
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Programming Titan
Titan's computational prowess rests on tens of thousands of next-generation processors, each of which contains hundreds of cores designed to rip through calculations. More...
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Virtual reactor
Some people would call Tom Evans an optimist. He's building a mathematical model of a nuclear reactor so detailed that the only computer it can run on hasn't been built yet. More...
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Joining forces for biofuels
Computational biophysicist Jeremy Smith specializes in performing science at the intersection of multiple disciplines. More...
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Behind the data
Thanks to the digital revolution, the information available on any given topic has morphed from
a sporadic stream of text and photos into a nonstop maelstrom of multimedia shrapnel. More...
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Climate models for a changing world
Using ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer to capture glimpses of Earth's future, researchers are trying to bridge the gap between science and public policy. More...
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Modeling material defects
Metallurgy is a very old subject, so you might think that by this point we would understand everything about it. That's not the case. More...
A closer view
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Jeff Nichols
Jeff Nichols shares share his thoughts on how supercomputing impacts both R&D and day-to-day living. More...
Research horizons
