4 months ago
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 …
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6 months ago
Darwin on Fast Forward: ORNL Study on COVID-19 Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize Nomination
As the coronavirus pandemic entered its second year, a team of scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to streamline the …
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6 months ago
Waltzing the Virus: Study on COVID-19 Reproduction Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize Nomination
To find weapons to fight the coronavirus, scientists used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to peer inside the intricacies of how the virus reproduces itself.
“Think of it as like a …
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6 months ago
We Know #COVIDisAirborne—Now We Have the First Ever Model of an Aerosolized Viral Particle
A team led by Rommie Amaro of the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), has used the Summit supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge …
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ATS Seminar Series: Erik Schultes
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. …
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2 years ago
Computational Gene Study Suggests New Pathway for COVID-19 Inflammatory Response
Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation’s fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the runaway symptoms produced by the body’s response …
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2 years ago
X-rays Size up Protein Structure at the ‘Heart’ of COVID-19 Virus
Media contact: Jeremy Rumsey, rumseyjp@ornl.gov, 865.576.2038
A team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories has performed the first room-temperature X-ray measurements on the SARS-CoV-2 …
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2 years ago
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 …
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2 years ago
OLCF Staff and Researchers Make a Smooth Transition to Working Remotely
When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) committed its IBM Power System AC922 Summit supercomputer to conducting open research in the fight against COVID-19, it …
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2 years ago
Summit Joins the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and the Summit supercomputer have joined forces with other U.S. Federal agencies, industry, and academic leaders to provide access to the world’s most powerful high-performance …
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2 years ago
COVID-19: OLCF Continues Normal Operations
The OLCF is operating on a normal schedule but is implementing measures to maximize social distancing. Staff who can telecommute are doing so and visitors to the laboratory are …
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2 years ago
ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit, to identify 77 small-molecule drug …
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