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Summit Helps Predict Molecular Breakups

Designing materials with certain properties is the first step to making computer chips that can store more information, superconductors that could help to solve the world’s energy problems, and drugs that work more efficiently in the human body. The transition metals in the periodic table of elements are crucial to…
Rachel McDowell
June 24, 2020
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U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE Program Seeks Proposals for 2021

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now seeking proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. From now until June 19, 2020, INCITE’s open call provides an opportunity for…
Katie Bethea
April 15, 2020
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Rethinking a Century of Fluid Flows

In 1922, English meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson published Weather Prediction by Numerical Analysis. This influential work included a few pages devoted to a phenomenological model that described the way that multiple fluids (gases and liquids) flow through a porous-medium system and how the model could be used in weather prediction.…
Will Wells
March 5, 2020
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Machine Learning for Better Drug Design

When Harel Weinstein and his team at the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College (Weill Cornell Medicine) of Cornell University set out to learn the molecular mechanisms of drugs, they weren’t expecting to train computers to analyze some of the most complex data in pharmacology. In fact, they really…
Rachel McDowell
February 21, 2020
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In Its 15th Year, INCITE Advances Open Science with Supercomputer Grants to 47 Projects

MEDIA CONTACTS: Katie Bethea Oak Ridge National Laboratory [email protected] 865-576-8039 Brian Grabowski Argonne National Laboratory [email protected] 630-252-1232 OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 18, 2019— The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 47 science projects for 2020—awarding 60 percent of the available time on some…
Coury Turczyn
November 18, 2019
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A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit

Turbulence, the state of disorderly fluid motion, is a scientific puzzle of great complexity. Turbulence permeates many applications in science and engineering, including combustion, pollutant transport, weather forecasting, astrophysics, and more. One of the challenges facing scientists who simulate turbulence lies in the wide range of scales they must capture…
OLCF Staff Writer
November 13, 2019
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Summit Charts a Course to Uncover the Origins of Genetic Diseases

https://vimeo.com/336592112 A visualization of a new structure of the human PIC. The spheres correspond to the positions of patient-derived mutations color-coded by disease phenotype. Video credit: Ivaylo Ivanov, Georgia State University. Environmental conditions, lifestyle choices, chemical exposure, and foodborne and airborne pathogens are among the external factors that can cause…
Elizabeth Rosenthal
May 20, 2019
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Laser Focus Sheds Light on Two Sources of Nanoparticle Formation

Although previous research shows that metal nanoparticles have properties useful for various biomedical applications, many mysteries remain regarding how these tiny materials form, including the processes that generate size variations. To crack this case, a team of scientists turned to computational sleuthing tactics. Led by Leonid Zhigilei of the University…
Elizabeth Rosenthal
April 3, 2019
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Solving A Beta Decay Puzzle

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 11, 2019—An international collaboration including scientists at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) solved a 50-year-old puzzle that explains why beta decays of atomic nuclei are slower than what is expected based on the beta decays of free neutrons. The findings, published…
Jonathan Hines
March 12, 2019
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Titan Takes Fluoride from Taps and Toothpaste to Batteries

In today’s technology landscape, companies are continually making improvements to electronic devices. Bigger screens, better cameras, and smarter systems are just some of the improvements these companies promise to consumers with each product upgrade. But one question remains: where are the long-lasting batteries? A collaboration of researchers recently made a…
Rachel McDowell
December 21, 2018
ORNL’s Jeremy Smith is studying the recalcitrance of biomass to enable cheaper, more efficient biofuels and other high-value chemicals.Science

INCITE grants awarded to 62 computational research projects

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced 62 projects for 2019 aimed at accelerating discovery and innovation to address some of the world’s most challenging science problems through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program. Deploying on supercomputers that rank among the country’s most powerful, the projects originate in national…
Katie Bethea
November 9, 2018
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Assembling Life’s Molecular Motor

Despite the grand diversity among living organisms, the molecule used to store and transmit energy within aerobic, or oxygen-using, cells is remarkably the same. From bacteria to fungi, plants, and animals, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) serves as the universal energy currency of life, fueling the processes cells need to survive and…
Jonathan Hines
May 9, 2017
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A Seismic Mapping Milestone

Because of Earth’s layered composition, scientists have often compared the basic arrangement of its interior to that of an onion. There’s the familiar thin crust of continents and ocean floors; the thick mantle of hot, semisolid rock; the molten metal outer core; and the solid iron inner core. But unlike…
Jonathan Hines
March 28, 2017
Melting in Two DimensionsScience

The Shape of Melting in Two Dimensions

https://vimeo.com/201923842 Snow falls in winter and melts in spring, but what drives the phase change in between? Although melting is a familiar phenomenon encountered in everyday life, playing a part in many industrial and commercial processes, much remains to be discovered about this transformation at a fundamental level. In 2015,…
Jonathan Hines
January 31, 2017