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August 12, 2015
Simplifying and accelerating genome assembly

Novel algorithms and high-performance computational techniques have simplified and accelerated genome assembly. Scientists from Berkeley Lab have used the Edison supercomputer to reduce a months-long process to mere minutes.

June 10, 2015
Supernova hunting with supercomputers

Astronomers have used US National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) supercomputers to confirm a prediction made in 2010. They found a supernova and a new way of reading the stars.

May 22, 2013
Popping bubbles mathematically

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, US, have mathematically described the stages in the complex formation and disappearance of foamy bubbles. Read about the challenges they faced and the industrial processes their work will impact.