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ORNL Supercomputing Resources Support Simulation of Influenza Virus Showing Universal Vaccine Promise
1 month ago

ORNL Supercomputing Resources Support Simulation of Influenza Virus Showing Universal Vaccine Promise

By  •  1 month ago  •  Featured, Science

According to the World Health Organization, each year influenza infects an estimated 1 billion people worldwide. Between 3 and 5 million of these cases are severe, and up …
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Autocoding Cancer
1 month ago

Autocoding Cancer

By  •  1 month ago  •  Featured, Science

An algorithm developed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is speeding up classification, or coding, of …
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The Most Advanced Bay Area Earthquake Simulations Will be Publicly Available
2 months ago

The Most Advanced Bay Area Earthquake Simulations Will be Publicly Available

By  •  2 months ago  •  Featured, Science

By Aliyah Kovner, Berkeley Lab

Accurately modeling the effects of an earthquake is possible, but it requires intricate physics-based models that can only be run on advanced supercomputers. The data …
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Computational Study Finds Genetic Links, Therapy Targets for Varicose Veins
2 months ago

Computational Study Finds Genetic Links, Therapy Targets for Varicose Veins

By  •  2 months ago  •  Featured, Science

Media Contact: Stephanie G Seay

As part of a multi-institutional research project, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory leveraged their computational systems biology expertise and the …
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Exascale acceleration
4 months ago

Exascale acceleration

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Just how fast can the world’s fastest supercomputer go? Maybe even faster than imagined.

Researchers studying plasma physics for particle accelerators recently used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Frontier …
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Plasma Simulation Code Wins 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize
4 months ago

Plasma Simulation Code Wins 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Technology

A 16-member team of researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) won the …
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Charting the new Frontier
4 months ago

Charting the new Frontier

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, OLCF History, Science

The Frontier supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory logged a new benchmark this week that further illustrates its world-changing potential and held onto its top ranking as …
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INCITE program awards supercomputing time to 56 projects to accelerate science and engineering research
4 months ago

INCITE program awards supercomputing time to 56 projects to accelerate science and engineering research

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Science

MEDIA CONTACTS: Julie Parente Argonne National Laboratory, jparente@anl.gov Katie Bethea Oak Ridge National Laboratory, betheakl@ornl.gov

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to …
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Predicting Protein Targets and the Molecules that Bind with Them
4 months ago

Predicting Protein Targets and the Molecules that Bind with Them

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Technology

When the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill in 2020, pharmaceutical companies countered with remarkable speed to develop mRNA vaccines by the end of that year. …
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Distilling How Water Turns into Ice
5 months ago

Distilling How Water Turns into Ice

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, Science

Among the mysteries of science that continue to elude researchers, one stands apart in its vexing simplicity: ice. Yes, frozen water. Water’s transformation from liquid to solid is …
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Solving the protein puzzle
5 months ago

Solving the protein puzzle

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

A simple scoop of soil or water can hold an entire ecosystem–potentially millions or more microscopic organisms and the countless proteins they rely on to survive.

Computations performed at the …
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WarpX Named Gordon Bell Prize Finalist
5 months ago

WarpX Named Gordon Bell Prize Finalist

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

The development of plasma-based particle accelerators—experimental technology that promises several advantages over conventional accelerators—may soon be accelerated itself by a new, advanced simulation code: WarpX.

Produced primarily by a team …
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Fast-tracking medical discovery
5 months ago

Fast-tracking medical discovery

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

The world’s fastest supercomputer could help discover the next great cure hiding in plain sight.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used Frontier, the world’s …
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Exascale Day 2022
5 months ago

Exascale Day 2022

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, Science

On October 18, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is celebrating the fourth National Exascale Day.

The holiday was created in 2019 as an initiative …
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Pioneering Frontier: Bringing the Science
5 months ago

Pioneering Frontier: Bringing the Science

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, People

The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees behind the construction and operation of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s incoming …
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Spinning up Quantum Fidelity
6 months ago

Spinning up Quantum Fidelity

By  •  6 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Researchers reached new levels of accuracy in quantum simulations of spin defects using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, at the U.S. Department of …
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