Latest Supercomputer Podcast Episodes
Season 4, Episode 4 -- Anubhav Jain: Hacking Materials
Science in Parallel - November 08, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsArtificial intelligence is reshaping research to discover new materials for a range of important applications. In this episode, meet Anubhav Jain of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a researcher who has been at the forefront of this transition. He uses machine learning and other computatio...
Season 4, Episode 3 -- Danilo Pérez: Embracing Versatility
Science in Parallel - October 25, 2023 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSometimes extraordinary circumstances like the pandemic offer researchers unexpected opportunities to serve others. Danilo Pérez, now a Ph.D. student in computational neuroscience at New York University, found himself in this situation in Puerto Rico in 2020. He contributed his mathematical mode...
Season 4, Episode 2 -- Casey Berger: Choose Your Own Multidimensional Career
Science in Parallel - October 11, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTraditional science career advice often urges people to specialize and become the best at one activity. But that perspective can undervalue interdisciplinary researchers and other polymaths who can see connections between and beyond science and engineering fields. This episode’s guest, Casey Ber...
Season 4, Episode 1 -- Creativity in Climate Modeling
Science in Parallel - September 27, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSeason 4 of Science in Parallel centers around creativity and computing, starting with an interview about climate modeling. At this nexus of physics, earth science, mathematics and computing, researchers are also racing against the clock to accurately predict how global climate is shifting bef...
Season 3, Episode 5 -- Beyond Exascale: Exploring Emerging Hardware
Science in Parallel - June 21, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe exascale era in computing has arrived, and that brings up the question of what’s next. We’ll discuss some emerging processor technologies-- molecular storage and computing, quantum computing and neuromorphic chips—with an expert from each of those fields. Learn more about these technologies...
Season 3, Episode 4 -- Gabriel Casabona: It All Comes Down to Gravity
Science in Parallel - June 07, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlthough he’s always loved space, Gabriel Casabona pursued other fields, including medicine and religion, before landing in astrophysics. We discussed how his passion for physics motivated him to deepen his knowledge of math and computing, how gravity’s mysteries define his work and other big ch...
Season 3, Episode 3 -- Tammy Ma: Fusion Ignition and Beyond
Science in Parallel - May 24, 2023 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn early December 2022, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) had achieved fusion ignition—a reaction of merging hydrogen isotopes that produced more energy than the lasers put in. High-performance computing is an important part of designing, ...
Season 3, Episode 2 –- Margaret Lawson: Finding Her Place
Science in Parallel - May 10, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsEven after enjoying her first computer science course, Margaret Lawson wasn’t convinced she’d have a place in the field. But today she works on cloud storage for Google after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she was supported by a Department of Energy C...
Season 3, Episode 1 -- Joe Insley: Big Data to Beautiful Images
Science in Parallel - April 26, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMaking sense of computational science takes a multidisciplinary team, including science visualization experts who translate data into images that both parse information so that it’s comprehensible and render it into beautiful images and skillful animations. Joe Insley of Argonne Leadership Compu...
Season 2, Episode 6 -- Pushing Limits in Computing and Biology
Science in Parallel - October 26, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience in Parallel’s season two concludes with a conversation about answering important questions in biology and medicine with leadership class supercomputers, including urgent issues that came up during the COVID-19 pandemic. You’ll hear from Anda Trifan of the University of Illinois, Urbana-C...
Season Two, Episode Six-- Pushing Limits in Computing and Biology
Science in Parallel - October 26, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience in Parallel’s season two concludes with a conversation about answering important questions in biology and medicine with leadership class supercomputers, including urgent issues that came up during the COVID-19 pandemic. You’ll hear from Anda Trifan of the University of Illinois, Urbana-C...
Season Two, Episode Five -- Improving Computing Performance and Workforce Diversity
Science in Parallel - October 05, 2022 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsValerie Taylor doesn’t shy away from challenging problems with multiple layers. At Argonne National Laboratory, she manages teams that develop algorithms, data management strategies, software and hardware to support scientific simulations, including those on the Department of Energy’s leadership...
Season 2, Episode 5 -- Improving Computing Performance and Workforce Diversity
Science in Parallel - October 05, 2022 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsValerie Taylor doesn’t shy away from challenging problems with multiple layers. At Argonne National Laboratory, she manages teams that develop algorithms, data management strategies, software and hardware to support scientific simulations, including those on the Department of Energy’s leadership...
Season Two, Episode Four -- You're moving to Finland?
Science in Parallel - July 06, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAfter COVID-19 lockdowns and 2020 wildfires near his Oregon home, computational scientist Jeff Hammond decided to make big moves. In 2021, his family of five emigrated from Portland to Finland, and Jeff changed positions, leaving Intel and taking a new job with NVIDIA. Even before 2020, he had w...
Season Two, Episode Four -- You're Moving to Finland?
Science in Parallel - July 06, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAfter COVID-19 lockdowns and 2020 wildfires near his Oregon home, computational scientist Jeff Hammond decided to make big moves. In 2021, his family of five emigrated from Portland to Finland, and Jeff changed positions, leaving Intel and taking a new job with NVIDIA. Even before 2020, he had w...
Season 2, Episode 4 -- You're Moving to Finland?
Science in Parallel - July 06, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAfter COVID-19 lockdowns and 2020 wildfires near his Oregon home, computational scientist Jeff Hammond decided to make big moves. In 2021, his family of five emigrated from Portland to Finland, and Jeff changed positions, leaving Intel and taking a new job with NVIDIA. Even before 2020, he had w...
Season Two, Episode Three -- Two PhDs + Pandemic + Baby
Science in Parallel - June 22, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPandemic work was especially challenging for computational scientist parents, who often juggled new work arrangements while balancing their children's care. In this episode you’ll hear from a couple who were Ph.D. students and had a 10-month-old baby when lockdowns sent them all home in March 20...
Season 2, Episode 3 -- Two PhDs + Pandemic + Baby
Science in Parallel - June 22, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPandemic work was especially challenging for computational scientist parents, who often juggled new work arrangements while balancing their children's care. In this episode you’ll hear from a couple who were Ph.D. students and had a 10-month-old baby when lockdowns sent them all home in March 20...
Season 2, Episode 2 -- Future of Work (part 2): Adapting to Change
Science in Parallel - June 08, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn Season 2 of Science in Parallel, we’re examining how pandemic shutdowns have reshaped computational science workplaces. In our last episode we focused on the effects of virtual work and how the Exascale Computing Project’s Strategies for Working Remotely panel series fostered communication an...
Season Two, Episode Two -- Future of Work (part 2): Adapting to Change
Science in Parallel - June 08, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn Season 2 of Science in Parallel, we’re examining how pandemic shutdowns have reshaped computational science workplaces. In our last episode we focused on the effects of virtual work and how the Exascale Computing Project’s Strategies for Working Remotely panel series fostered communication an...
Season Two, Episode One -- Future of Work Part One
Science in Parallel - June 01, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn our first two episodes of Science in Parallel’s Season 2, we’ll be talking about how the pandemic pivot to remote work marks a turning point in workplace structure for many computational scientists. We talk with computational scientists who worked remotely about what they struggled with, wha...
Season 2, Episode 1 -- Future of Work (part 1): Communication Conundrum
Science in Parallel - June 01, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn our first two episodes of Science in Parallel’s Season 2, we’ll be talking about how the pandemic pivot to remote work marks a turning point in workplace structure for many computational scientists. We talk with computational scientists who worked remotely about what they struggled with, wha...
Season 1, Episode 6 -- Aurora Pribram-Jones
Science in Parallel - October 27, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAurora Pribram-Jones works on hot, dense electrons – simulating extreme chemistry that can happen within giant planets like Jupiter or nuclear fusion experiments. Aurora’s career included many initial detours on the way to science, but the flexibility of community college classes and a job at a ...
Season One, Episode Six -- Aurora Pribram-Jones
Science in Parallel - October 27, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAurora Pribram-Jones works on hot, dense electrons – simulating extreme chemistry that can happen within giant planets like Jupiter or nuclear fusion experiments. Aurora’s career included many initial detours on the way to science, but the flexibility of community college classes and a job at a ...
Season 1, Episode 5 -- Alternative Energy
Science in Parallel - October 13, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAvoiding the changing climate’s most extreme impacts will require a technological revolution to power daily life from renewable sources. An entrepreneur, an engineering professor and a DOE-laboratory materials scientist – all DOE CSGF and Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni – discuss te...
Season One, Episode Five -- Alternative Energy
Science in Parallel - October 13, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAvoiding the changing climate’s most extreme impacts will require a technological revolution to power daily life from renewable sources. An entrepreneur, an engineering professor and a DOE-laboratory materials scientist – all DOE CSGF and Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni – discuss te...
Season One, Episode Four -- Alicia Magann
Science in Parallel - September 29, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlicia Magann got her start in control systems engineering research, exploring tools for controlling large-scale chemical processes. As a Ph.D. student, she turned the dials of quantum chemistry in Herschel Rabitz’s research group at Princeton University with support from the DOE CSGF. She talk...
Season 1, Episode 4 -- Alicia Magann
Science in Parallel - September 29, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAlicia Magann got her start in control systems engineering research, exploring tools for controlling large-scale chemical processes. As a Ph.D. student, she turned the dials of quantum chemistry in Herschel Rabitz’s research group at Princeton University with support from the DOE CSGF. She talk...
Season One, Episode Three -- Quentarius Moore
Science in Parallel - September 15, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCuriosity, mentors and a summer working in concrete with his grandfather shaped Quentarius Moore’s science career studying 2-D materials. He recently completed his fourth year as a DOE CSGF recipient, while pursuing a chemistry Ph.D. at Texas A&M University. He completed both his bachelor's and ...
Season 1, Episode 3 -- Quentarius Moore
Science in Parallel - September 15, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCuriosity, mentors and a summer working in concrete with his grandfather shaped Quentarius Moore’s science career studying 2-D materials. He recently completed his fourth year as a DOE CSGF recipient, while pursuing a chemistry Ph.D. at Texas A&M University. He completed both his bachelor's and ...
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