http://www.pnnl.gov/science/ Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss suraiya.farukhi@pnnl.gov christine.sharp@pnnl.gov http://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1366the stories of these, and many more, women in STEM can inspire others as they think about the future. Only 24% of the STEM workforce is female, an alarming gap as over 51% of the workforce overall is female." ]]>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1317Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1319Results: The productivity of a group of colleagues on a project is always more efficient when required information is sent as soon as it becomes available, rather than sending a request for information when it's needed. In the same way, computer algorithms that send data from one process to another when the data becomes available will be more efficient than one that is requested when it will be used. To facilitate designing such algorithms within the Global Arrays programming model framework, DOE researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory designed a new put_notify capability that allows a process to initiate and complete data to another process without synchronization. The novel feature is a notify element that the receiving process can use to asynchronously determine the completion of the data transfer. ]]>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1305Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1289Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1286Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1284Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1281Results:  When is the plague not the plague? When it’s a different strain of the same bacteria. In two strains of the bacteria genus Yersinia —a highly lethal pathogen and its less-virulent form—scientists performed multi-omic analyses to gain insights how they differ. They found that how the genes in both are expressed contribute to the striking difference in the diseases caused by these pathogens. The research team included scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the J. Craig Venter Institute, and the University of Texas Medical Branch. ]]>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1271Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.pnnl.gov/science/highlights/highlight.asp?id=1246Results: Supercomputers consist of hundreds of thousands to millions of processor cores. Current users of such systems, like computational scientists, are required to balance their work among a large number of cores. Balancing work is an extremely challenging and time-consuming procedure for many applications. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Illinois have designed the most scalable algorithmic approaches to balance distribution of work amongst computer processor cores, persistence-based load balancing, and work-stealing. ]]>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 PST