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Fast-tracking medical discovery
11 months ago

Fast-tracking medical discovery

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

The world’s fastest supercomputer could help discover the next great cure hiding in plain sight.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used Frontier, the world’s …
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Knocking Out Drug Side Effects with Supercomputing
3 years ago

Knocking Out Drug Side Effects with Supercomputing

By  •  3 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Psychedelic drugs could be effective in treating psychiatric disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, but medical use of these drugs is limited by the hallucinations they cause.

“What …
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ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus
4 years ago

ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

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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Big Computing Cures Big Pharma

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

Researchers from ORNL and the University of Tennessee are using OLCF supercomputers to help cut time and risk in new drug development.
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