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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

Distilling How Water Turns into Ice

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 actually a complex process of nature that scientists have named—nucleation—yet do not fully understand. However, Princeton University researchers have taken trailblazing steps…
Coury Turczyn
November 9, 2022
Science

Supercomputing Exposes Potential Pathways for Inhibiting COVID-19

To explore the inner workings of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a novel technique. The team — including computational scientists Debsindhu Bhowmik, Serena Chen and John Gounley — ran molecular dynamics simulations of the novel virus…
Elizabeth Rosenthal
January 25, 2022

ATS Seminar Series: David Womble

The Advanced Technologies Section (ATS) of the National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL is a world leader in developing and deploying scientific and technical solutions for leadership-class computing environments. The R&D activities of ATS are organized around designing and deploying leadership class systems, developing artificial intelligence solutions for science…
Katie Bethea
August 18, 2021
ORNL’s Sergei Kalinin and Rama Vasudevan (foreground) use scanning probe microscopy to study bulk ferroelectricity and surface electrochemistry -- and generate a lot of data. Credit: Jason Richards/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of EnergyScience

ORNL’s Superb Materials Expertise, Data and AI Tools Propel Progress

At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists use artificial intelligence, or AI, to accelerate the discovery and development of materials for energy and information technologies. “AI gives scientists the ability to extract insights from an ever-expanding volume of data,” said David Womble, ORNL’s AI program director. “New AI…
Dawn Levy
May 5, 2021
Science

Two Finalists Nominated for Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID-19 Work on Summit

Every year at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), one deserving team is awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize to recognize an outstanding achievement in high-performance computing (HPC). Winners are chosen based on the demonstrated innovativeness of their algorithm development…
Rachel McDowell
November 18, 2020
Science

Mining for COVID-19 Connections

Scientists have tapped the immense power of the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to comb through millions of medical journal articles to identify potential vaccines, drugs and effective measures that could suppress or stop the spread of COVID-19. A team comprising researchers from ORNL and Georgia Tech are…
Katie Bethea
May 18, 2020
Science

ORNL Scientists Tap into AI to Put a New Spin on Neutron Experiments

Scientists seek to use quantum materials—those that have correlated order at the subatomic level—for electronic devices, quantum computers, and superconductors. Quantum materials owe many of their properties to the physics that is occurring on the smallest scales, physics that is fully quantum mechanical. Some materials, such as complex magnetic materials,…
Rachel McDowell
March 27, 2020
Science

AI for Plant Breeding in an Ever-Changing Climate

How might artificial intelligence (AI) impact agriculture, the food industry, and the field of bioengineering? Dan Jacobson, a research and development staff member in the Biosciences Division at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has a few ideas. For the past 5 years, Jacobson and…
Rachel McDowell
November 13, 2019
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Second “Introduce Your Daughter to AI” Event Is a Hit

The Women in Computing (WiC) networking group at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) hosted its second “Introduce Your Daughter to AI” workshop on June 7. With 31 ORNL employees attending with their daughters ages 12 to 17, this year’s event topped last year’s attendance…
Rachel McDowell
June 28, 2019
Technology

ORNL Adds Powerful AI Appliances to Computing Portfolio

(From left to right) Cole Freniere and Michael Reynolds of Microway, Alex Volkov of NVIDIA, and Chris Layton and Brian Zachary of ORNL pose with a newly arrived DGX-2. The NVIDIA appliances connect ORNL researchers with a platform that excels at machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence that could…
Jonathan Hines
February 6, 2019
Pictured here, daughters of ORNL staff members play the human neural network game, taking on roles as different kinds of neurons in a neural network.People

Introduce Your Daughter to AI Event Sees OLCF Participation

Last month staff members at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), facilitated a new artificial intelligence (AI)–focused event from the Women in Computing (WiC) networking group at ORNL: “Introduce Your Daughter to AI.”…
Rachel McDowell
July 17, 2018
Technology

Summit by the Numbers

Download the high-resolution file. The US Department of Energy’s Summit supercomputer located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory enables scientists to simulate complex physical systems and make predictions critical to advancing research and development. Summit’s “smart” architecture merges GPU acceleration and dense local memory to support expanding applications in data science…
Katie Elyce Jones
June 8, 2018
Science

Infographic: Summit will be the world’s smartest supercomputer for open science

Download the high-resolution file. Summit provides unprecedented opportunities for the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific discovery. Here’s why: GPU Brawn: Summit links more than 27,000 deep-learning optimized NVIDIA GPUs with the potential to deliver exascale-level performance (a billion billion calculations per second) for AI applications. High-speed Data Movement:…
Jonathan Hines
March 26, 2018