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Lab Experiments Support the COVID-19 Bradykinin Storm Theory

A new paper published in Nature Communications adds further evidence to the bradykinin storm theory of COVID-19’s viral pathogenesis—a theory that was posited 2 years ago by a team of researchers led by Systems Biologist Dan Jacobson at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). At…
Coury Turczyn
September 14, 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: 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. The R&D activities of ATS are organized around designing and deploying leadership class systems, developing artificial intelligence solutions for science…
Katie Bethea
July 15, 2021
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
People

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 initiated an unprecedented all-hands effort. Summit is currently running simulations for at least ten individual research projects by other national…
Coury Turczyn
April 29, 2020
Science

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 computing resources in support of COVID-19 research through the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. The Consortium is a unique private-public…
Katie Bethea
March 30, 2020
Events

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 being restricted. For information on the Laboratory’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, see the public home page, www.ornl.gov. In the meantime,…
Katie Bethea
March 18, 2020