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simulations
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Simulation of the birth of a star iSGTW story | Credit: Alexei Kritsuk, Michael Norman, Paolo Padoan, and Rick Wagner, UC San Diego. Source: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego. This image, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San... view more |
iSGTW story | Courtesy of TACC and the University of Texas at Austin.
This picture, produced by Paul Navratil of the Visualization and Data Analysis group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center using additional... view more
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iSGTW story | Simulation by SCEC scientists Kim Olsen, Steven Day, SDSU et al; Yifeng Cui et al, SDSC/UCSD. Visualization by Amit Chourasia, SDSC/UCSD
TeraShake 2 simulation of magnitude 7.7 earthquake, created by scientists at the Southern California Earthquake Center and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
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Cell convection patterns in the sun iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Mark Miesch, NCAR and UCAR. Giant cell convection patterns like this are giving scientists an unprecedented view of the solar interior thanks to a new model powered using TeraGrid's... view more |
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Looking down at the North Pole iSGTW story | Image courtesy Yannick Ponty, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France. Looking downward at the Earth's stratosphere at the North Pole. In this computer simulation, magnetic energy and magnetic field... view more |
iSGTW story | Image courtesy CU/NCAR and the TOY Geophysical Turbulence Summer School.
Every year, the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences conducts a 3-week-long Geophysical Turbulence Summer School,... view more
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iSGTW story | Copyright UCAR, image courtesy Matthias Rempel, NCAR.
The interface between a sunspot's umbra (dark center) and penumbra (lighter outer region) shows a complex structure with narrow, almost... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of the TACC Visualization Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin.
A mathematical model of the heart that simulates blood flow using high-performance parallel computers.
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of NBCR.
A close-up view of one of the computationally-derived neuraminidase (N1) active sites is shown, with several compounds docked into the binding pockets, indicating that these newly... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Ercan Dumlupinar.
This illustrates the pressure contour plot of the air flow field around a rotator wing that is at the highest angle of attack over 50% and 99%... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
What the interior of a tornado looks like as it swirls over the land. Large-Eddy simulation of a tornado's interaction with the surface.
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Simulating candidates for new drugs iSGTW story | Image courtesy of YASARA. With computer modeling such as AutoDock, biologists can predict how small molecules will interact with larger molecules - vital to evaluating candidates for new drugs. |
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Model of flow of Columbia River iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Amit Chourasia, SDSC. Data Credit: Tim Barnett and David Pierce et. al., Scripps Institute of Ocenaography, UCSD. To predict the effect of climate change on fresh water resources,... view more |
iSGTW story | Image produced using VAPOR.
A simulation of the 3D magnetohydrodynamics at play in the outer third of a star. Each “hair” represents a magnetic field line embedded in the stellar... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Ross Walker and Amit Chourasia, SDSC, and Michael Crowley and Mark Nimlos, NREL. Funded by the Department of Energy's Biomass Program.
Scientists are improving... view more
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Flip-flopping black hole accretion disk iSGTW story | Image courtesy of the Renaissance Computing Institute This simulation showed how black hole accretion disks can "flip-flop" back and forth. |
visualizations
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iSGTW story | Copyright GridPP and Imperial College London.
Using satellite imagery from NASA, the Realtime Monitor displays the global reach of the grid. With only a 3-minute delay, it shows running and scheduled jobs, transfers and other computing elements for each site. You can move around the globe, zoom in, and isolate a... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy Thara Prabhakaran, the Institute of Bioinformatics at the University of Georgia, and the view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Paul Thompson, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, University of California.
Using a grid computing testbed, researchers can visualize the progressive brain tissue loss (pink) in... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Sophie Godin-Beekmann IPSL/Service d'Aeronomie.
Image of the mixing of ozone over the South Pole on 30 September 2001, measured using a grid computing application.
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iSGTW story | Image created on the Erasmus Computing Grid, by Tobias A. Knoch, Erasmus Medical Center.
A simulated view of the three-dimensional architecture of genetic material as it appears in a human... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center.
Through the Atmospheric Science Data Grid, scientists from four Taiwanese universities can access multi-dimensional scientific data... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of David Borland, Mats Rynge, John McGee and Ray Idaszak, RENCI.
Jobs begin in the MATCHING site at the far left in the image. The color-coded jobs are then sent to OSG compute sites, where... view more
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What the detection of a Higgs boson might look like iSGTW story | Image courtesy of CERN. An artist's conception of what the evidence for a Higgs boson would look like, if it were detected on the Compact Muon Solenoid of CERN's Large Hadron Collider. |
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iSGTW story | Photo courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory.
Scientists Folker Meyer and Elizabeth Glass analyze species and metabolic diversity from soil samples using MG-RAST (Metagenome Rapid Annotation using... view more
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iSGTW story | Image produced using VAPOR
Simulations of the action occurring on our Sun shows downflows: plumes of cooler gas that sink away from the surface of the Sun.
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Science
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Air bubbles of ancient atmosphere trapped in glacial ice iSGTW story | Image courtesy UCAR. Polarized light reveals the state of the atmosphere thousands of years ago, in a slice of glacial ice containing bubbles of atmospheric gases trapped eons ago. |
Time Projection Chamber, ALICE experiment DigSci story | Image courtesy of CERN. The Time Projection Chamber of ALICE, or "A Large Ion Collider Experiment," at CERN. |
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of SOHO, Baltic Grid, and LitGrid.
The sun, as seen by the orbiting space platform known as SOHO, or Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. False colors were added by Baltic Grid... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Montage.
This image was created with Montage, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Technology Office, Computation Technologies... view more
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of NASA and Montage.
By combining different images taken on different instruments and at different wavelengths, grid-enabled Montage software can create all-new views of the... view more
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Technology
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Reidar Hahn, Fermilab.
This photo of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Remote Operations Center shows the ROC during a rare down moment.
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iSGTW story | Image courtesy of Peter McCready.
In a continuing series, Peter McCready created panoramic views of all the large experiments of the LHC. ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS)... view more
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FermiLab Grid Computing Center iSGTW story | Image courtesy Reidar Hahn, Fermilab Visual Media Services. Don Holmgren pulls a graphics processing unit node out of its rack at the Fermilab Grid Computing Center. The blue rack, which... view more |
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