Research
Put It Everywhere: How HPC Powers Digital Life
Walls lined with imposing obelisks, thrumming with energy. Spinning disks and whirring tapes, writing and rewriting the results of countless calculations. Tiny green lights, signaling and flickering amid a snarling nest of cables. While they’ve come a long way since, these were the hallmarks of the earliest supercomputers, dating back to the 1960s. Today, supercomputers […]
November 26, 2024 • 7 min read Technology
Into the FathomVerse: Community science, data, and the sea
Despite extensive research dives and piles of visual data, ocean scientists estimate that more than 90% of marine life remains unclassified. Beneath the frothy waves, there’s a cosmopolis of undersea denizens, unknown and unaware of the world above. However, the ongoing climate crisis highlights just how entangled these two worlds are. As we seek to […]
August 20, 2024 • 8 min read Data
The Scientists Chasing Brain-like Neuromorphic Computing
The world’s fastest supercomputer requires 21 million watts of power. Our brains, in comparison, hum along on a mere 20 watts—roughly the energy needed for a light bulb. For decades, engineers have been fascinated by how our brains compute. Sure, computers will outperform us in their capacity for mathematical calculations. But they struggle with tasks […]
June 13, 2023 • 7 min read Technology
AI Enters the Fight to Cure Breast Cancer
Medical researchers are training deep learning models paired with powerful compute and storage technology to identify cancer biomarkers.
February 17, 2021 • 7 min read Technology