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Newswise: Seven ORNL technologies win R&D 100 research awards
Released: 25-Aug-2022 6:05 PM EDT
Seven ORNL technologies win R&D 100 research awards
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their technologies have received seven 2022 R&D 100 Awards, plus special recognition for a battery-related green technology product.

Released: 16-Aug-2022 10:30 AM EDT
$20 Million in Renewed Grants from NIH Will Provide Data Infrastructure and Leadership to International Collaboration to Map Human Body at Cellular Resolution
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Teams at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science will lead collaborations and provide computing, software and data infrastructure as part of an international network of centers working to create a kind of cell-level Google Maps for the human body.

   
Released: 19-Jul-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Supercomputer Simulates Future of Snow Melt, Water
Cornell University

Water resources will fluctuate increasingly and become more and more difficult to predict in snow-dominated regions across the Northern Hemisphere by later this century, according to a comprehensive new climate change study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and co-authored by a Cornell University climate scientist.

Newswise: Neuroscience Simulations at NERSC Shed Light on Origins of Human Brain Recordings
Released: 14-Jul-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Neuroscience Simulations at NERSC Shed Light on Origins of Human Brain Recordings
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Using simulations run at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found the origin of cortical surface electrical signals in the brain and discovered why the signals originate where they do.

   
Released: 7-Jul-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $18.3 Million for Research to Develop Advanced Chemical Sciences Simulation and Modeling Capabilities
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $18.3 million in funding for eight research projects to advance the development of sophisticated modeling and simulation software for the chemical sciences.

Released: 29-Jun-2022 1:05 PM EDT
Department of Energy Awards 18 Million Node-Hours of Computing Time to Support Cutting-Edge Research
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that 18 million node-hours have been awarded to 45 scientific projects under the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. The projects, with applications ranging from advanced energy systems to climate change to cancer research, will use DOE supercomputers to uncover unique insights about scientific problems that would otherwise be impossible to solve using experimental approaches.

Newswise: UAlbany Engineering Building to Anchor New Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Initiative
Released: 21-Jun-2022 3:45 PM EDT
UAlbany Engineering Building to Anchor New Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Initiative
University at Albany, State University of New York

The University at Albany today began a new era of teaching and research with the launch of Albany AI, a $200 million public-private supercomputing initiative based out of its soon-to-be-renovated College of Engineering and Applied Sciences building.

Released: 3-Jun-2022 3:15 PM EDT
Great Timing, Supercomputer Upgrade Lead to Successful Forecast of Volcanic Eruption
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

In the fall of 2017, geology professor Patricia Gregg and her team had just set up a new volcanic forecasting modeling program on the Blue Waters and iForge supercomputers.

Newswise: A Cloudless Future? The Mystery at the Heart of Climate Forecasts
Released: 31-May-2022 6:05 PM EDT
A Cloudless Future? The Mystery at the Heart of Climate Forecasts
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

We hear a lot about how climate change will change the land, sea, and ice. But how will it affect clouds?

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Released: 30-May-2022 3:05 AM EDT
Frontier Supercomputer Debuts as World’s Fastest, Breaking Exascale Barrier
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory earned the top ranking today as the world’s fastest on the 59th TOP500 list, with 1.1 exaflops of performance. The system is the first to achieve an unprecedented level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold of a quintillion calculations per second.

   
Newswise: LLNL and Amazon Web Services to cooperate on standardized software stack for HPC
Released: 26-May-2022 6:00 AM EDT
LLNL and Amazon Web Services to cooperate on standardized software stack for HPC
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Amazon Web Services have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to define the role of leadership-class high performance computing (HPC) in a future where cloud HPC is ubiquitous.

Newswise: Argonne’s Globus software wins award at 2021 Data Mover Challenge
Released: 12-May-2022 11:05 AM EDT
Argonne’s Globus software wins award at 2021 Data Mover Challenge
Argonne National Laboratory

Research data management platform Globus took home the Best Integrated Software Experience Award at the 2021 Data Mover Challenge.

Newswise: Researchers Reveal the Origin Story for Carbon-12, a Building Block for Life
Released: 11-May-2022 9:25 AM EDT
Researchers Reveal the Origin Story for Carbon-12, a Building Block for Life
Iowa State University

After running simulations on the world's most powerful supercomputer, an international team of researchers has developed a theory for the nuclear structure and origin of carbon-12, the stuff of life. The theory favors the production of carbon-12 in the cosmos.

Released: 9-May-2022 12:45 PM EDT
Ultrafast 'Camera' Captures Hidden Behavior of Potential 'Neuromorphic' Material
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Imagine a computer that can think as fast as the human brain while using very little energy. That's the goal of scientists seeking to discover or develop "neuromorphic" materials that can send and process signals as easily as the brain's neurons and synapses. In a paper just published scientists describe surprising new details about vanadium dioxide, one of the most promising neuromorphic materials.

Newswise: Supercomputing, Neutrons Crack Code to Uranium Compound’s Signature Vibes
Released: 5-May-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Supercomputing, Neutrons Crack Code to Uranium Compound’s Signature Vibes
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to map the molecular vibrations of an important but little-studied uranium compound produced during the nuclear fuel cycle for results that could lead to a cleaner, safer world.

Newswise: NNSA and Cornelis Networks to collaborate on next-generation high performance networking
Released: 4-May-2022 10:55 AM EDT
NNSA and Cornelis Networks to collaborate on next-generation high performance networking
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the award of an $18 million contract to Cornelis Networks for collaborative research and development in next-generation networking for supercomputing systems at the NNSA laboratories.

Newswise: Bay Area storms get wetter in a warming world
Released: 28-Apr-2022 5:35 PM EDT
Bay Area storms get wetter in a warming world
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)

The December 2014 North American Storm Complex was a powerful winter storm, referred to by some as California's "Storm of the Decade."

Released: 28-Apr-2022 10:05 AM EDT
U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE program seeks proposals for 2023
Argonne National Laboratory

The INCITE program is aimed at large-scale scientific computing projects that require the power and scale of DOE’s leadership-class supercomputers.

Released: 26-Apr-2022 12:05 PM EDT
New Collaboration Between RCSB Protein Data Bank and Amazon Web Services Provides Expanded Data Storage and Access to Researchers Worldwide
Rutgers University's Office for Research

The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB), headquartered at the Rutgers Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, announces the expansion of its data storage capacity through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program. The AWS program is providing the RCSB PDB with more than 100 terabytes of storage for no-cost delivery of Protein Data Bank information to millions of scientists, educators, and students around the world working in fundamental biology, biomedicine, bioenergy, and bioengineering/biotechnology.

Newswise: Roswell Park CIO Leading University at Buffalo Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research Effort; Team Earns $10M Grant
Released: 22-Apr-2022 1:00 PM EDT
Roswell Park CIO Leading University at Buffalo Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research Effort; Team Earns $10M Grant
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

The University at Buffalo will lead a $10 million project to develop software that academia, industry and government agencies use to manage high-performance computing infrastructure, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced on Friday.

Released: 22-Apr-2022 10:30 AM EDT
PSC and Partners to Lead $7.5-Million Project to Allocate Access on NSF Supercomputers
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

The NSF has awarded $7.5 million over five years to the RAMPS project, a next-generation system for awarding computing time in the NSF’s network of supercomputers. RAMPS is led by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and involves partner institutions in Colorado and Illinois.

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Released: 21-Apr-2022 9:50 AM EDT
ORNL brings big science to address the climate challenge
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tackling the climate crisis and achieving an equitable clean energy future are among the biggest challenges of our time. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the largest Department of Energy science and energy laboratory in the country, is deeply invested in the big science capabilities and expertise needed to address the climate challenge on multiple fronts.

Newswise: Where worlds collide: Team simulates collider physics on quantum computer
Released: 13-Apr-2022 9:30 AM EDT
Where worlds collide: Team simulates collider physics on quantum computer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team leveraged an IBM Q quantum computer through the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to capture part of a calculation of two protons colliding. The calculation can show the probability that an outgoing particle will emit additional particles.

Released: 13-Apr-2022 9:05 AM EDT
PSC’s Neocortex AI Computer Upgrades to Cerebras CS-2 Systems
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

The Neocortex high-performance AI computer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has been upgraded with two new Cerebras CS-2 systems. The WSE-2 technology doubles the system’s cores and on-chip memory and enables faster training, larger models and larger input data.

Released: 1-Apr-2022 12:05 PM EDT
Could quantum technology be New Mexico’s next economic boon?
Sandia National Laboratories

Science, education and economic development leaders across New Mexico have formed a coalition to bring future quantum computing jobs to the state. Sandia National Laboratories, The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the new coalition today.

   
Newswise: Xipeng Shen: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner
Released: 28-Mar-2022 10:45 AM EDT
Xipeng Shen: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner
Department of Energy, Office of Science

By shortening simulation times and reducing energy consumption, techniques developed by North Carolina State professor Xipeng Shen are accelerating scientific research using supercomputers.

Newswise: Scientists Uncover Surprising New Clues to Exotic Superconductors’ Superpowers
Released: 24-Mar-2022 11:00 AM EDT
Scientists Uncover Surprising New Clues to Exotic Superconductors’ Superpowers
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Unconventional superconductors carry electrical current with zero resistance in ways that defy our previous understanding of physics. A recent study led by Berkeley Lab could help researchers advance future applications in next-gen energy storage, supercomputing, and magnetic levitating trains.

Newswise: Accelerated Box of Flash: Powerful computational storage for big data projects
Released: 23-Mar-2022 6:35 PM EDT
Accelerated Box of Flash: Powerful computational storage for big data projects
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Data is a vital part of solving complicated scientific questions, in endeavors ranging from genomics, to climatology, to the analysis of nuclear reactions.

Newswise: PPPL findings could lead to ever-more powerful microchips and supercomputers
Released: 7-Mar-2022 5:05 PM EST
PPPL findings could lead to ever-more powerful microchips and supercomputers
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

A description of the Laboratory's process to extend Moore's law that has doubled the number of transistors that can be packed on a microchip roughly every two years and develop new ways to produce ever-more capable, efficient, and cost-effective chips.

Newswise:Video Embedded new-3d-atomistic-imagery-created-of-sars-cov-2-shows-how-virus-uses-spike-protein-to-fuse-with-and-infect-human-cells
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Released: 7-Mar-2022 12:55 PM EST
New 3D atomistic imagery created of SARS-CoV-2 shows how virus uses spike protein to fuse with and infect human cells
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New computer models and simulations from Los Alamos National Laboratory are showing researchers how the virus that causes COVID-19 manages to use its spike protein to fuse with and infect human cells. To be presented at the March meeting of the American Physical Society, the atomistic-level imagery is highly consistent with cryo-electron microscopy data, despite the severe challenges of imaging at such high resolution.

Newswise: Physicists Uncover the Secret Behind the Behavior of Unique Superconducting Materials
Released: 4-Mar-2022 4:55 PM EST
Physicists Uncover the Secret Behind the Behavior of Unique Superconducting Materials
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Scientists using the Summit supercomputer to study superconductors found that negative particles in the superconductors interact strongly with phonons in the materials. This interaction leads to sudden changes in the materials’ behavior, explaining how certain copper-based superconductors work. The findings may lead to a new class of superconducting materials that work at relatively warm temperatures for efficient future electronic devices.

Released: 2-Mar-2022 10:05 PM EST
Globus Wins Best Integrated Software Experience Award
Globus

Globus received the Best Integrated Software Experience award at the annual Data Mover Challenge, a competition which brings together experts from industry and academia to challenge international teams to come up with the most innovative solutions for transferring huge amounts of data across servers around the world that are connected by 100Gbps international research and education networks.

Newswise: New simulations refine axion mass, refocusing dark matter search
Released: 25-Feb-2022 12:45 PM EST
New simulations refine axion mass, refocusing dark matter search
University of California, Berkeley

Physicists searching — unsuccessfully — for today's most favored candidate for dark matter, the axion, have been looking in the wrong place, according to a new supercomputer simulation of how axions were produced shortly after the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago.

Newswise: COVID-19 in the Classroom: Simulating the Spread
Released: 25-Feb-2022 9:35 AM EST
COVID-19 in the Classroom: Simulating the Spread
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team at Argonne National Laboratory used Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit, the nation's fastest supercomputer, to study how aerosol viral particles are distributed in a ventilated classroom.

Newswise: Advanced computer simulations shed intriguing new light on magma deep below Earth’s surface
Released: 14-Feb-2022 5:05 AM EST
Advanced computer simulations shed intriguing new light on magma deep below Earth’s surface
University of Bristol

Unlike the classic Jules Verne science fiction novel Journey to the Center of the Earth or movie The Core, humans cannot venture into the Earth’s interior beyond a few kilometres of its surface. But thanks to latest advances in computer modelling, an international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed new light on the properties and behaviour of magma found several hundreds of kilometres deep within the Earth.

24-Jan-2022 4:05 AM EST
Bristol team chase down advantage in quantum race
University of Bristol

Quantum researchers at the University of Bristol have dramatically reduced the time to simulate an optical quantum computer, with a speedup of around one billion over previous approaches.

Newswise: Supercomputing for Swift Protein Modeling
Released: 26-Jan-2022 1:30 PM EST
Supercomputing for Swift Protein Modeling
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team led at Arizona State University used the nation’s fastest supercomputer, Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to model millions of structures and gain new insights into how proteins transition to different shapes.

Released: 26-Jan-2022 1:20 PM EST
Physical systems perform machine-learning computations
Cornell University

You may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but Cornell researchers have found a way to train physical systems, ranging from computer speakers and lasers to simple electronic circuits, to perform machine-learning computations, such as identifying handwritten numbers and spoken vowel sounds.

Released: 26-Jan-2022 1:10 PM EST
Powerful Sandia machine-learning model shows diamond melting at high pressure
Sandia National Laboratories

Hardware and software improvements shorten ‘run time’ from year to a day.

Newswise: Screening Study IDs Inhibitor of Key COVID Virus Enzyme
Released: 26-Jan-2022 12:40 PM EST
Screening Study IDs Inhibitor of Key COVID Virus Enzyme
Brookhaven National Laboratory

A study published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling reports the discovery of a molecule with significant potential to disable the COVID-19 virus. The molecule was identified using high-throughput virtual screening—a search through a library of 6.5 million in-stock compounds that could quickly be scaled up for drug production using some of the nation’s most powerful supercomputers and other research tools.

Newswise: Supercomputing exposes potential pathways for inhibiting COVID-19
Released: 25-Jan-2022 12:40 PM EST
Supercomputing exposes potential pathways for inhibiting COVID-19
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

To explore the inner workings of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a novel technique.

Newswise: Peter Lindstrom: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner
Released: 25-Jan-2022 10:55 AM EST
Peter Lindstrom: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Peter Lindstrom is the project leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Center for Applied Scientific Computing, where he develops efficient ways to avoid bottlenecks while moving data.

Newswise: New Qubits Bring Us One Step Closer to Quantum Networks
Released: 14-Jan-2022 2:35 PM EST
New Qubits Bring Us One Step Closer to Quantum Networks
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Researchers are exploring chromium defects in silicon carbide as potential spin qubits. These spin qubits would be compatible with telecommunications optical fibers, making them potentially useful for optical fiber-based quantum networks. Researchers recently investigated new ways to make high-quality chromium defects in silicon carbide.

Newswise: Scientists use Summit supercomputer, deep learning to predict protein functions at genome scale
Released: 13-Jan-2022 11:05 AM EST
Scientists use Summit supercomputer, deep learning to predict protein functions at genome scale
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Georgia Institute of Technology is using supercomputing and revolutionary deep learning tools to predict the structures and roles of thousands of proteins with unknown functions.

Released: 13-Jan-2022 11:05 AM EST
AI Tool Promises Better Automated Analysis of Datasets with Rare Items, a Key Real-World Limitation
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

The MiikeMineStamps dataset of stamps provides a unique window into the workings of a large Japanese corporation, opening unprecedented possibilities for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. But some of the stamps in this archive only appear in a small number of instances. This makes for a “long tail” distribution that poses particular challenges for AI learning, including fields in which AI has experienced serious failures. A collaboration between scientists at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), PSC, DeepMap Inc. of California and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) took up this challenge, using PSC’s Bridges and Bridges-2 systems to build a new machine learning (ML) based tool for analyzing “long tail” distributions.

Newswise: Artificially altered material could accelerate neuromorphic device development
Released: 11-Jan-2022 1:40 PM EST
Artificially altered material could accelerate neuromorphic device development
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Neuromorphic devices — which emulate the decision-making processes of the human brain — show great promise for solving pressing scientific problems, but building physical systems to realize this potential presents researchers with a significant challenge. An international team has gained additional insights into a material compound called vanadium oxide, or VO2, that might be the missing ingredient needed to complete a reliable neuromorphic recipe.

Newswise: Measuring a quantum computer’s power just got faster and more accurate
16-Dec-2021 12:35 PM EST
Measuring a quantum computer’s power just got faster and more accurate
Sandia National Laboratories

A new kind of benchmark test, designed at Sandia National Laboratories, predicts how likely a quantum processor will run a specific program without errors, revealing the technology's true potential and limitations.



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