Quantum of Solace: Research Seeks Atomic Keys to Lock Down COVID-19
Anshuman Kumar is sharpening a digital pencil to penetrate the secrets of the coronavirus. He and colleagues at the University of California at Riverside want to calculate atomic interactions at… Read Article
Racing the Clock, COVID Killer Sought Among a Billion Molecules
Working from home, sometimes in pajamas, Ada Sedova taps into the world’s most powerful supercomputer in the hunt for a tiny molecule that could stop the coronavirus from infecting someone… Read Article
Double-Precision Tensor Cores Speed High-Performance Computing
What you can see, you can understand. Simulations help us understand the mysteries of black holes and see how a protein spike on the coronavirus causes COVID-19. They also let… Read Article
Gut Instinct: Human Microbiome May Reveal COVID-19 Mysteries
Days before a national lockdown in the U.S., Daniel McDonald realized his life’s work had put a unique tool in his hands to fight COVID-19. The assay kits his team… Read Article
What’s the Difference Between Single-, Double-, Multi- and Mixed-Precision Computing?
There are a few different ways to think about pi. As apple, pumpkin and key lime … or as the different ways to represent the mathematical constant of ℼ, 3.14159,… Read Article
Farewell to a Titan: How AI, Simulation, Modeling Cemented Legacy of Former Top US Supercomputer
Titan supercomputer, we salute you. After seven years of groundbreaking service at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, the former fastest supercomputer in the U.S. is being decommissioned on Aug…. Read Article
NVIDIA GPUs to Power New Berkeley National Lab Supercomputer, Accelerating Scientific Discoveries
NVIDIA GPUs will power a next-generation supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced today by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and supercomputer manufacturer Cray. Perlmutter, a pre-exascale system coming in… Read Article
Shapely Bell Curve: NVIDIA Volta Tensor Core GPUs Power 5 of 6 Gordon Bell Finalists
Movies have the Oscars. Television has the Emmys. Broadway has the Tonys. But for those known for harnessing computing power more than star power, what counts is the Gordon Bell… Read Article