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Ready for 25 More Years

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Director Thomas Zacharia, far right, leads a keynote panel “Building the Conditions for Innovation” that reflects on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s history and predicts what the future of high-performance computing may look like. Panel members include (left to right): Robert Ward (University of…
Katie Elyce Jones
November 10, 2017
Science

The Problem with Cellulosic Ethanol

Simulation provides a close-up look at the molecule that complicates next-generation biofuels Leadership-class molecular dynamics simulation of the plant components lignin and cellulose. This 3.3 million-atom simulation was performed on 30,000 cores of the Jaguar XT5 supercomputer and investigated lignin precipitation on cellulose fibrils, a process that poses a significant…
Leo Williams
September 12, 2011
Science

It Takes Three to Tango

The nucleus of an atom, like most everything else, is more complicated than we first thought. Just how much more complicated is the subject of a Petascale Early Science project led by ORNL’s David Dean.
Leo Williams
July 10, 2011
People

ORNL’s Apra Honored by HPCwire

The publishers of the online supercomputing magazine HPCwire expect great things of ORNL computational chemist Edoardo Aprà in the coming year. Aprà is among 10 individuals included in the magazine’s “People to Watch” list for 2011.
OLCF Staff Writer
February 14, 2011