Product Reliability Using Simulation
Countless hours of computing time are spent every year in simulation. For example, manufacturers of vehicles need to ensure quality cars and that will last for a given amount of time before breaking down [1]. But in reality, we all know that products from any manufacturer can break down under normal usage […]

Some serious illnesses such as HIV tend to change, or mutate, rapidly within the body of a person suffering from the disease. Any number of factors can impact the ways the viruses mutate. For example, such factors may have to do with the properties of the patient’s genome, the treatments that were chosen earlier, and […]

Usually, when we think of supercomputers, we think of large, precision-cooled rooms lined with large machines. But one the most powerful such systems is a distributed system known as Folding@Home, led by the researchers in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University. This system was the first computer system to reach 1 petaflop (10^15 floating […]