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March 14, 2012
Forecasting the success of wind farms

How much electricity can a wind turbine produce? Finding the answer requires studying at least wind patterns and air turbulance, and weather data sets can be huge.

Professor of Scientific Computation Ashraf Hussein writes about how his team used massively parallel high performance computing to address this problem in Egypt.

December 21, 2011
A littleBit of geeky fun

littleBits coffeemaker from ayah bdeir on Vimeo.

November 23, 2011
Wireless worries

Will fears of the health risks associated with wireless devices ultimately prove to be groundless? Researchers create a virtual body model to help find answers.

November 9, 2011
Accelerating materials research in the information age

Finding better materials for clean energy technologies takes far too long - 18 years from concept to commercialization. But computing could change that.

November 9, 2011
Insights from spinning samples

The UltraScan web portal and supercomputers help researchers find deeper insight into the purity, structure, and behavior of proteins, DNA, and RNA.

October 19, 2011
A small Sun on Earth

The quest to produce power from fusion is back on track after the test-bed reactor JET restarted successfully. But some serious challenges, which require heavy computing, still lie on the scientists' path between here and realising their dream.

Scientists are installing extremely sensitive infra-red cameras to find tiny hot-spots in the walls of the container, which might show why and where energy is lost. And they must also tackle one of the most important unsolved problems of classical physics: turbulance.

October 5, 2011
A better lithium-ion battery on the way

Computing models combine with experiments to work towards a better battery.

February 16, 2011
A marriage of art and engineering

"Keep it simple" is the motto of Ilknur Colak, accelerator engineer at CERN and photographer.