Read article 'Symmetry breaking on a supercomputer'
The Japan Lattice QCD Collaboration has used numerical simulations to reproduce spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (SCSB) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
Read article 'Coupled-clusters point to faster computation'
Calculations of the structure of heavy nuclei have long suffered from the difficulties presented by the sheer complexity of the many-body system, with all of its protons and neutrons.
Read article 'Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos'
Steve Reucroft reviews in 2006 Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos.
Read article 'The dark side of computing power'
Urs Hölzle from Google points out that while the performance of commodity computer clusters continues to increase, so does their electrical power consumption.
Read article 'In need of the human touch'
Software development is more than engineering and still needs the human factor to be successful, says Federico Carminati.
Read article 'Computing at CERN: the mainframe era'
Chris Jones takes a look back at the heyday of the computer mainframe through a selection of "memory bytes".
Read article 'Going public: a new paradigm'
For David P Anderson, project leader of SETI@home, the future of scientific computing is public.
Read article 'SweGrid gets set for future challenges'
SweGrid, the first national Grid test-bed in Sweden, was inaugurated on 18 March in Uppsala.
Read article 'WestGrid team announces completion of computing network in western Canada'
Scientists leading the WestGrid project in Canada have announced that the major resources of this $48 million project are available for general use by the research community.
Read article 'Smaller institutes look to gain from scientific fallout'
Alexandru Mihul believes that the distribution of data from large laboratories to smaller institutes for longer term analysis has benefits for all.
