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Getting the Matrix of Life Right

More than a year ago, computational scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory published a study in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation that raised a serious question about a long-standing methodology used by researchers who conduct molecular dynamics simulations involving water. What if using the standard…
Coury Turczyn
July 9, 2025
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Quantum Study Seeks to Solve Questions on Fluid Flow

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory tested a quantum computing approach to an old challenge: solving classical fluid dynamics problems. The study relied on support from the Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, part of ORNL’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The results highlight avenues for further study of quantum…
Matt Lakin
March 26, 2025
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Scientists Lay Out Vision for AI-Based ‘Labs of the Future’

A workshop led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory sketched a road map toward a longtime goal: development of autonomous, or self-driving, next-generation research laboratories. Scientists have dreamed for generations of high-tech laboratories operated via robotics at the push of a button.  Recent advancements in artificial intelligence…
Matt Lakin
February 26, 2025
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The OLCF’s Problem Busters

Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his team of researchers at Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering were excited to bring their code into the new world of exascale-class supercomputing. The Multicomponent Flow Code, or MFC, originated in the early 2000s to model the simultaneous movements of gases and liquids as they…
Coury Turczyn
February 11, 2025
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The OLCF’s 2024 in Review

High-performance computing pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in 2024, driving advancements across a range of disciplines. Partnerships with top academic, industrial and government institutions led to major contributions in fields such as quantum molecular mechanics and aviation. The year also saw groundbreaking research honored at leading conferences, underscoring the…
Angela Gosnell
December 19, 2024
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Summit Helps Veterans Affairs Connect Genetic Dots

To conduct a groundbreaking study of genetic data from more than half a million U.S. veterans, scientists needed tools of the kind found only at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "This particular study is probably the crown jewel of the field so far," said Ravi Madduri, a…
Matt Lakin
December 18, 2024
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ORNL Researchers Honored with Award for Best Event Report

A research collaboration between the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and several partner institutions was honored with the Best Event Report award at the 2024 International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events. The eighth annual conference for researchers, educators, professionals and event organizers in high-performance…
Angela Gosnell
December 12, 2024
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Bigger, Faster, Smarter Genetics Research

A team of researchers used the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a new methodology for conducting a genome-wide association study, or GWAS, to earn a finalist nomination for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing,…
Coury Turczyn
November 1, 2024
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Goodbye HPSS, Hello Kronos

Users of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility are experiencing big changes with how their data is stored — in a good way. As the OLCF’s High Performance Storage System is to be decommissioned in early 2025 after decades of service, users are becoming familiar with Kronos, which is already proving its ease of use and…
Angela Gosnell
October 22, 2024
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Exascale’s New Frontier: CANDLE

PI: Rick Stevens Associate Laboratory Director, Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (1018) or more calculations per second. That leap meant rethinking,…
Coury Turczyn
September 4, 2024
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Exascale’s New Frontier: ExaWind

PI: Michael Sprague, National Renewable Energy Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to prepare advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of 1 quintillion or more calculations per second. That meant rethinking, reinventing and optimizing dozens of scientific applications and…
Jeremy Rumsey
July 29, 2024
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Exascale’s New Frontier: ADIOS

PI: Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (1018) or more calculations per second. That leap meant rethinking, reinventing, and optimizing dozens of scientific applications…
Coury Turczyn
May 20, 2024
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Something in the Water Does Not Compute

Computational scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have published a study in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation that questions a long-accepted factor in simulating the molecular dynamics of water: the 2 femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second) time step. The femtosecond is a timescale…
Coury Turczyn
May 6, 2024
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ORNL and SLAC Team Up for Breakthrough Biology Projects

Plans to unite the capabilities of two cutting-edge technological facilities funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science promise to usher in a new era of dynamic structural biology. Through DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure, or IRI, initiative, the facilities will complement each other’s technologies in the pursuit of science…
Coury Turczyn
May 6, 2024