by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 6, 2024 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Bridges-2 Simulations Show Specific Heat Effect that, with New Telescopes, Will Give Clues on Condensed Matter, Atomic Nuclei You can’t get much more dramatic than smashing two ultra-dense stars into each other. But these mergers, while fascinating in their own right,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 15, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
By Neha Srinivasan and Kimberly Mann Bruch, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Ken Chiacchia, PSC Distribution of gas trapped by simulated stars’ magnetic fields, comparing stars whose magnetic poles are nearly aligned with their rotation (left) vs. one in which the...
by Ken Chiacchia | Nov 13, 2023 | Bridges-2, Neocortex, News, Press release
14th Year Center Has Received HPCwire Awards, Presented Annually to Leaders in the Global High Performance Computing Community A potential way to turn coal into clean-energy graphite and carbon nanotubes and an application of a bleeding-edge computing technology to...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 31, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
One of the patterns the CMU team used to prove that 14 colors/numbers isn’t enough to solve the packing problem; note that, in the upper left, the “chessboard” pattern of 1s is interrupted. CMU Team Uses Bridges-2 to Solve a 21-Year-Old Coloring Problem in Mapping...
by Ken Chiacchia | Aug 17, 2023 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Left: Microscope image of the healthy neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Bright spots are where a fluorescent-label has stuck to muscle-cell-surface proteins that respond to neurotransmitters. Upper Right: MCell model of healthy mouse NMJ active zones (AZs). Six AZs are...
