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Distilling How Water Turns into Ice

Among the mysteries of science that continue to elude researchers, one stands apart in its vexing simplicity: ice. Yes, frozen water. Water’s transformation from liquid to solid is actually a complex process of nature that scientists have named—nucleation—yet do not fully understand. However, Princeton University researchers have taken trailblazing steps…
Coury Turczyn
November 9, 2022
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ORNL Researchers Earn R&D 100 Award for AI Technology

Gremlin, software developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to identify weaknesses in neural networks, has been recognized with a 2022 R&D 100 Award in the Software/Services category. Neural networks are algorithms used to recognize patterns in datasets of text, images, or…
Coury Turczyn
September 28, 2022
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ORNL Scientists Tap into AI to Put a New Spin on Neutron Experiments

Scientists seek to use quantum materials—those that have correlated order at the subatomic level—for electronic devices, quantum computers, and superconductors. Quantum materials owe many of their properties to the physics that is occurring on the smallest scales, physics that is fully quantum mechanical. Some materials, such as complex magnetic materials,…
Rachel McDowell
March 27, 2020
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Deep Learning Expands Study of Nuclear Waste Remediation

Contact: Kathy Kincade, [email protected], +1 510 495 2124 A research collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Brown University, and NVIDIA has achieved exaflop performance on the Summit supercomputer with a deep learning application used to model subsurface flow in the study of nuclear waste remediation.…
Katie Bethea
November 8, 2019
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From Simulation to Automation in a Data-Rich World

In a farewell nod to Titan, scheduled to be decommissioned in August 2019, we present a short series of features highlighting some of Titan’s impactful contributions to scientific research. Long before the first computers were invented, intelligent robots appeared in myths, stories, and other works of fiction. In recent years,…
Rachel McDowell
August 29, 2019
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Microscopy Images Put Deep Learning Code to the Test

ORNL research scientists Steven Young (left) and Travis Johnston (middle) with ORNL data scientist Robert Patton (right). A team led by Patton is in the running for the 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize after it used the MENNDL code and the Summit supercomputer to create an artificial neural network that…
Rachel McDowell
October 23, 2018
Pictured here, daughters of ORNL staff members play the human neural network game, taking on roles as different kinds of neurons in a neural network.People

Introduce Your Daughter to AI Event Sees OLCF Participation

Last month staff members at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), facilitated a new artificial intelligence (AI)–focused event from the Women in Computing (WiC) networking group at ORNL: “Introduce Your Daughter to AI.”…
Rachel McDowell
July 17, 2018
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Scaling Deep Learning for Science

Deep neural networks—a form of artificial intelligence—have demonstrated mastery of tasks once thought uniquely human. Their triumphs have ranged from identifying animals in images, to recognizing human speech, to winning complex strategy games, among other successes. Now, researchers are eager to apply this computational technique—commonly referred to as deep learning—to…
Jonathan Hines
November 28, 2017