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Visionary Report Unveils Ambitious Roadmap to Harness the Power of AI in Scientific Discovery

Innovations in artificial intelligence are rapidly shaping our world, from virtual assistants and chatbots to self-driving cars and automated manufacturing. Seizing on the potential of AI to transform science, the nation’s leading experts in science and technology have released a blueprint for the United States to accelerate progress by expanding its capabilities…
Scott Jones
June 13, 2023
Science

The Protein Problem

Jeremy Smith, an ORNL/University of Tennessee Governor’s Chair, uses both Titan and SNS to understand the overall function and structure of proteins.
Scott Jones
June 16, 2015
Technology

A Helping Hand

For many researchers, Titan is only part of the picture; managing and understanding data are quickly becoming as important as the simulations that create it.
Scott Jones
November 11, 2014
Science

Investigating the Earth’s Inner Workings

Princeton's Jeroen Tromp is part of a team using Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Titan supercomputer, to reveal the Earth’s inner workings via adjoint tomography simulations, or monitoring the interaction of a forward wavefield, in which the waves travel from the source to the receivers, and an “adjoint” wavefield in…
Scott Jones
November 11, 2014
Science

Unraveling Enzymes

A team of researchers, led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Pratul Agarwal, is seeking to obtain key insights into the fundamental underpinnings of how enzymes work and, in particular, what makes them such great catalysts.
Scott Jones
October 14, 2014
Science

Reconnecting the Dots

Of particular importance to Bhattacharjee’s team is reconnection and shocks in systems where the plasma particles do not collide very often, both of which can serve as mechanisms for cosmic ray acceleration.
Scott Jones
August 20, 2014
People

Wells meets AAS

The OLCF’s Jack Wells was an invited speaker at the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS’s) Exascale Radio Astronomy conference from March 30 to April 4 in Monterrey, CA, where he detailed recent advances in computational astrophysics on Department of Energy supercomputing systems such as Titan.
Scott Jones
June 30, 2014
Science

Going Nuclear

To increase efficiency and enhance nuclear safety, a team led by Igor Bolotnov of North Carolina State University has turned to Titan to perform state-of-the-art direct numerical simulation (DNS) to characterize such turbulent bubbly flows.
Scott Jones
June 2, 2014
People

Say Hello to Bio

The Bio-IT conference, which took place from April 29 to May 1, hosted more than 2,500 participants from the life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and IT industries representing more than 30 countries.
Scott Jones
June 2, 2014
Technology

Seeing Is Believing

When the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility upgraded its Jaguar supercomputer to the Cray XK7 CPU/GPU hybrid system known as Titan, the center knew that upgrades to its data analysis and visualization resources were necessary to complement Titan’s more than 20 petaflops of computing power.
Scott Jones
March 18, 2014
Technology

The Need for Speed

With its hybrid architecture featuring traditional CPUs alongside GPUs, Titan represents a revolutionary paradigm in high-performance computing’s quest to reach the exascale with only marginal increases in power consumption for the world’s leading systems.
Scott Jones
January 2, 2014
People

OLCF Wins Big at Conference

The OLCF and industrial users Ford Motor Company and GE Global Research received 5 awards at SC13, the 25th meeting of the annual leading Supercomputing Conference.
Scott Jones
December 16, 2013
Technology

ADIOS Wins Big

A team of researchers led by the OLCF’s Scott Klasky received an R&D 100 Award for the development of the Adaptable I/O System for Big Data, or ADIOS.
Scott Jones
July 23, 2013