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April 22, 2015
Getting a clearer picture of Earth's interior

Seismologists have always relied on surface observation to piece together models of what they thought Earth’s interior looked like. These models served them well for years, but they were unable to map out the planet’s interior with certainty, until now. A team of scientists is using the powerful US Titan supercomputer to do just that.

 

March 4, 2015
Understanding risk with ‘environmental computing’

With the world facing unprecedented environmental challenges, it’s time to establish the field of ‘environmental computing’, argues Matti Heikkurinen, a senior advisor at Germany's Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. 

April 27, 2011
Bumps in the night

Anyone can help contribute to early warning systems for earthquakes with only the use of a USB stick, a modern laptop, smart phone, or even a Nintendo Wii controller though a volunteer computing project called the Quake Catcher Network (QCN). The chief software architect of QCN, Carl Christensen, and project leader, Elizabeth Cochran, presented their volunteer computing project at the Asia@home Hackfest in Taipei in March 2011.