Breakthrough Fusion Simulations Shed Light on Plasma Confinement

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Breakthrough Fusion Simulations Shed Light on Plasma Confinement

Using Jaguar, a research team led by William Tang of DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a clearer picture of plasma confinement properties in an experimental device that will pave the way to future commercial fusion power plants.

OLCF Staff WriterAugust 3, 2011

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Supercomputers Aid in Understanding the Basic Building Blocks of Nature

A team of scientists has been awarded a total of 80 million processor hours at the OLCF and the ALCF for QCD research to help develop a unified theory of how the four fundamental forces of nature interact.

OLCF Staff WriterJuly 19, 2011

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Packing the ions

Discovery boosts supercapacitor energy storage Computational modeling of carbon supercapacitors with the effects of surface curvature included.—Image credit: Jingsong Huang, ORNL Flat is in the eye of the beholder. When you’re talking about nanomaterials, however, that eye is pretty much useless unless it’s looking through an electron microscope or at…

Leo WilliamsJune 16, 2011

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Researchers Pinpoint How Copper Folds Protein into Precursors of Parkinson’s Plaques

Calculations on the Jaguar supercomputer reveal metal binding likely to misfold alpha-synuclein Alpha-synuclein, a protein that misfolds in Parkinson's disease, is shown in its free state (top) and bound to copper (bottom). Copper binding, detailed in the boxed area, accelerates the protein's misfolding. Image credit: Frisco Rose, Miroslav Hodak, and…

OLCF Staff WriterJune 14, 2011

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2012 INCITE Call for Proposals

On April 13, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that proposals are now being accepted for the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, which supports high-impact scientific advances through the use of the DOE Leadership Computing Facilities located at Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories.…

OLCF Staff WriterApril 13, 2011

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BMI Uses Jaguar to Overhaul Long-Haul Trucks

BMI Corporation is combining their aerospace and race care design expertise with the power of the OLCF’s Jaguar supercomputer to create a new, long haul “SmartTruck” that will increase fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.

OLCF Staff WriterMarch 2, 2011

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Another High-Definition Plasma

A team led by University of Iowa astrophysicist Gregory Howes is using ORNL’s Jaguar supercomputer to explore astrophysical plasma.

OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 15, 2011

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Whole-Genome Sequencing Simulated on Supercomputers

Using Jaguar, a research team led by Aleksei Aksimentiev, assistant professor in the physics department at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, began a project to create machines for personal genome sequencing that will be more accessible to hospitals.

OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 14, 2011

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Computational Scientists Use Supercomputers to Explore Ice Sheet Dynamics

Using Jaguar, SEACISM’s aim is to use state-of-the-art simulation to predict the behavior of ice sheets under a changing climate by developing scalable algorithms.

OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 14, 2011

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ORNL Supercomputers Help Studies of Supernovas, Space

Image showing the asymmetric and turbulent flame that has consumed a white dwarf star in a type Ia supernova explosion. (Image credit: Daniel Kasen, UCSC) Researchers use Jaguar to simulate ignition in type Ia supernova explosions. Type Ia supernovas are the largest thermonuclear explosions in nature, expelling mass greater than…

OLCF Staff WriterSeptember 28, 2009

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Oak Ridge Supercomputers Provide First Simulation of Abrupt Climate Change

At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world’s fastest supercomputer for unclassified research is simulating abrupt climate change and shedding light on an enigmatic period of natural global warming in Earth’s relatively recent history.

Dawn LevyJuly 16, 2009

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Quantum Spin Doctors Dissect Exotic States of Matter

When German physicist Max Planck created quantum theory in 1900, he was not trying to revolutionize the world. He was just trying to provide a theoretical foundation for the way a heated object radiates energy and, thereby, to improve the efficiency of light bulbs. Modern scientists, too, cannot know which…

Leo WilliamsMay 14, 2008

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Potassium Channel Model Lights the Way for Simulations of Molecular Machines

Supercomputers to reveal in atomistic detail all steps from open to closed ion channel

Dawn LevyApril 4, 2008

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