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Released: 20-Jun-2018 3:05 PM EDT
A Bit of Quantum Logic—What Did the Atom Say to the Quantum Dot?
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Let’s talk! Scientists demonstrate coherent coupling between a quantum dot and a donor atom in silicon, vital for moving information inside quantum computers.

Released: 19-Jun-2018 4:05 PM EDT
West Big Data Hub at SDSC to Partner for Data Storage Network under New NSF Grant
University of California San Diego

The West Big Data Innovation Hub (WBDIH) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego is one of four regional big data hubs partner sites awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the initial development of a data storage network during the next two years.

Released: 19-Jun-2018 10:05 AM EDT
ORNL researchers use AI to improve mammogram interpretation
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In an effort to reduce errors in the analyses of diagnostic images by health professionals, a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory has improved understanding of the cognitive processes involved in image interpretation, work that has enormous potential to improve health outcomes for the hundreds of thousands of American women affected by breast cancer each year. The ORNL-led team found that analyses of mammograms by radiologists were significantly influenced by context bias, or the radiologist’s previous diagnostic experiences.

   
Released: 18-Jun-2018 11:05 AM EDT
The science behind pickled battery electrolytes
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne material scientists have discovered a reaction that helps explain the behavior of a key electrolyte additive used to boost battery performance.

Released: 8-Jun-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Launches America’s New Top Supercomputer for Science
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.

8-Jun-2018 1:00 PM EDT
ORNL Launches Summit Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.

   
Released: 1-Jun-2018 1:05 PM EDT
How an Enzyme Repairs DNA via a “Pinch-Push-Pull” Mechanism
University of California San Diego

In a study published in the May 21, 2018 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers – aided with supercomputing resources from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) based at UC San Diego – created a dynamic computer simulation to delineate a key biological process that allows the body to repair damaged DNA.

   
30-May-2018 12:30 PM EDT
Less Is More When It Comes to Predicting Molecules’ Conductivity
University of Chicago

Forward-thinking scientists in the 1970s suggested that circuits could be built using molecules instead of wires, and over the past decades that technology has become reality. The trouble is, some molecules have particularly complex interactions that make it hard to predict which of them might be good at serving as miniature circuits. But a new paper by two University of Chicago chemists presents an innovative method that cuts computational costs and improves accuracy by calculating interactions between pairs of electrons and extrapolating those to the rest of the molecule.

28-May-2018 1:00 PM EDT
Scientists Simulate a Sliver of the Universe to Tackle a Subatomic-Scale Physics Problem
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A team led by Berkeley Lab researchers has enlisted powerful supercomputers to calculate a quantity, known as the “nucleon axial coupling” or gA, that is central to our understanding of a neutron’s lifetime.

Released: 7-May-2018 4:05 PM EDT
SimEarth
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne joins its sister national laboratories in powering a new earth modeling system with supercomputers. The system features weather-scale resolution and can help researchers anticipate decadal-scale changes that could influence the U.S. energy sector in years to come.

Released: 2-May-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Shake Rattle and Code
Argonne National Laboratory

Tom Jordan and a team from the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) are using the supercomputing resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility, to advance modeling for the study of earthquake risk and how to reduce it.

Released: 30-Apr-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal New “Achilles heel” in Dengue Virus
University of California San Diego

By stretching the amount of time proteins can be simulated in their natural state of wiggling and gyrating, a team of researchers at Colorado State University has identified a critical protein structure that could serve as a molecular Achilles heel able to inhibit the replication of dengue virus and potentially other flaviviruses such as West Nile and Zika virus.

Released: 26-Apr-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Los Lunas High School Students Take Top Award in 28th Annual Supercomputing Challenge
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Jen Marie Phifer and Forest Good of Los Lunas High School won top honors on Tuesday at the 28th Annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge held at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Released: 24-Apr-2018 1:05 PM EDT
A Game Changer: Protein Clustering Powered by Supercomputers
Department of Energy, Office of Science

New algorithm lets biologists harness massively parallel supercomputers to make sense of a protein “data deluge.”

Released: 13-Apr-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Better Tools for Supercomputer Research
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

The U.S. Department of Energy will fund research into a novel approach to improving efficiency of next-generation supercomputer simulations with an award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute doctoral candidate Caitlin Joann Ross.

Released: 9-Apr-2018 4:50 PM EDT
DOE Announces Request for Proposals for LLNL’s Next-Generation Supercomputer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry today announced the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development of at least two new exascale supercomputers, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s next-generation system code-named “El Capitan.”

Released: 6-Apr-2018 6:05 PM EDT
Mirror, Mirror
Argonne National Laboratory

The mirror-like physics of the superconductor-insulator transition operates exactly as expected. Scientists know this to be true following the observation of a remarkable phenomenon, the existence of which was predicted three decades ago but that had eluded experimental detection until now. The observation confirms that two fundamental quantum states, superconductivity and superinsulation, both arise in mirror-like images of each other.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 12:30 PM EDT
A Game Changer: Metagenomic Clustering Powered by HPC
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab and Joint Genome Institute researchers took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology—Markov Clustering algorithm—and modified it to run efficiently and at scale on supercomputers. Their algorithm achieved a previously impossible feat: clustering a 70 million node and 68 billion edge biological network in hours.

Released: 1-Mar-2018 9:05 AM EST
Story Tips From the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL model could better predict tiny methylmercury pockets lurking in creek algae; engines work smarter with new fuel innovation; making narrow metallic structures to advance tiny electronics, drug delivery; certain enzymes that try to break down antibiotics may inform better drug designs for fighting resistant bacteria; current software simulations for small modular reactors upscaled to run on future supercomputers.

Released: 22-Feb-2018 2:50 PM EST
UNLV Supercomputing Boosted Through New Collaboration with Altair
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

Tapping into the tremendous power of the Cherry Creek II supercomputer at UNLV just got easier for faculty researchers and community partners alike, thanks to a new MOU between the university and Altair Engineering.

16-Feb-2018 2:25 PM EST
Supercomputers Aid Discovery of New, Inexpensive Material to Make LEDs with Excellent Color Quality
University of California San Diego

Computers have helped researchers develop a new phosphor that can make LEDs cheaper and render colors more accurately. An international team led by engineers at UC San Diego first predicted the new phosphor using supercomputers and data mining algorithms, then developed a simple recipe to make it in the lab. Unlike many phosphors, this one is made of inexpensive, earth-abundant elements and can easily be made using industrial methods. As computers predicted, the new phosphor performed well in tests and in LED prototypes.

Released: 14-Feb-2018 5:05 PM EST
Physics Data Processing on NERSC Supercomputer Dramatically Cuts Reconstruction Time
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In a recent demonstration project, physicists from Brookhaven National Laboratory and Berkeley Lab used the Cori supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center to reconstruct data collected from a nuclear physics experiment, an advance that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to make detailed data available for scientific discoveries.

Released: 8-Feb-2018 11:05 AM EST
GM Revs up Diesel Combustion Modeling on Titan Supercomputer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Grover and GM colleagues Jian Gao, Venkatesh Gopalakrishnan, and Ramachandra Diwakar are using the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to improve combustion models for diesel passenger car engines with an ultimate goal of accelerating innovative engine designs while meeting strict emissions standards.

Released: 1-Feb-2018 10:05 AM EST
Study of Salts in Water Causing Stir
Argonne National Laboratory

A pair of Argonne scientists uncover fresh insights about the structure of saltwater.

Released: 29-Jan-2018 2:05 PM EST
Networking, Data Experts Design a Better Portal for Scientific Discovery
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A team of networking experts from the Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), with the Globus team from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, have designed a new approach that makes data sharing faster, more reliable and more secure.

Released: 10-Jan-2018 3:30 PM EST
ORNL Researchers Use Titan to Accelerate Design, Training of Deep Learning Networks
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For deep learning to be effective, existing neural networks to be modified, or novel networks designed and then "trained" so that they know precisely what to look for and can produce valid results. This is a time-consuming and difficult task, but one that a team of ORNL researchers recently demonstrated can be dramatically expedited with a capable computing system.

Released: 9-Jan-2018 8:05 AM EST
Buckeye Pi: The Most Powerful Student-Built Supercomputer Made From Raspberry Pis
Ohio State University

“We’re geeks, and we’re motivated.” That’s how Amin Amooie, a doctoral student in earth sciences at The Ohio State University, explained his team’s efforts to build the supercomputer they’ve dubbed “Buckeye Pi.”

Released: 22-Dec-2017 9:05 AM EST
From Inner to Outer Space, Los Alamos Science Goes Big in 2017
Los Alamos National Laboratory

With a top-story list populated by breakthroughs in supercomputing, accelerator science, space missions, materials science, life science, and more, Los Alamos National Laboratory put its Big Science capabilities to wide, productive use in 2017.

Released: 15-Dec-2017 4:05 PM EST
Bending a New Tool for Low Power Computing
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Theory predicts that bending a film will control spin direction and create a spin current for next-generation electronics.

Released: 6-Dec-2017 4:05 PM EST
PPPL Physicists Win Supercomputing Time to Study Fusion and the Cosmos
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Feature describes supercomputer allocations of 210 million core hours to PPPL physicists.

Released: 6-Dec-2017 12:05 PM EST
Heavy Metal: How First Supernovae Altered Early Star Formation
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

An international team of researchers ran multi-scale, multi-physics 2D and 3D simulations at NERSC to illustrate how heavy metals expelled from exploding supernovae held the first stars in the universe regulate subsequent star formation and influence the appearance of galaxies in the process.

Released: 4-Dec-2017 1:05 PM EST
Computer Simulations Reveal Roots of Drug Resistance
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New supercomputer simulations have revealed the role of transport proteins called efflux pumps in creating drug-resistance in bacteria, research that could lead to improving the drugs’ effectiveness against life-threatening diseases and restoring the efficacy of defunct antibiotics.

Released: 29-Nov-2017 3:40 PM EST
Researchers From Music and Engineering Team Up to Turn Big Data Into Sound
Virginia Tech

A unique collaboration between a music professor and an engineering professor at Virginia Tech will result in the creation of a new platform for data analysis that will make it possible to understand the significance of data by turning it into sound.

Released: 29-Nov-2017 11:05 AM EST
Scaling Deep Learning for Science
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Using the Titan supercomputer, a research team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed an evolutionary algorithm capable of generating custom neural networks that match or exceed the performance of handcrafted artificial intelligence systems.

Released: 28-Nov-2017 12:05 PM EST
High-Performance Computing Cuts Particle Collision Data Prep Time
Brookhaven National Laboratory

For the first time, scientists have used high-performance computing (HPC) to reconstruct the data collected by a nuclear physics experiment—an advance that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to make detailed data available for scientific discoveries. The demonstration project used the Cori supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a high-performance computing center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, to reconstruct multiple datasets collected by the STAR detector during particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a nuclear physics research facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

Released: 28-Nov-2017 7:05 AM EST
What Can Science Gain From Computers That Learn?
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Researchers are grappling with increasingly large quantities of image-based data. Machine learning and deep learning offer researchers new ways to analyze images quickly and more efficiently than ever before. Scientists at multiple national laboratories are working together to harness the potential of these tools.

Released: 17-Nov-2017 12:05 PM EST
Argonne to Install Comanche System to Explore ARM Technology for High-Performance Computing
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory is collaborating with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to provide system software expertise and a development ecosystem for a future high-performance computing (HPC) system based on 64-bit ARM processors.

Released: 14-Nov-2017 4:05 PM EST
Multi-Partner Awards in Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences Achievements
University of California San Diego

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego received two key HPCwire awards for 2017, recognizing the use of its Comet supercomputer in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) research and the life sciences.

Released: 13-Nov-2017 12:05 PM EST
Scalable Clusters Make HPC R&D Easy as Raspberry Pi
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive Raspberry Pi nodes.

Released: 13-Nov-2017 11:10 AM EST
Diagnosing Supercomputer Problems
Sandia National Laboratories

A team of computer scientists and engineers from Sandia National Laboratories and Boston University recently won the Gauss Award at the International Supercomputing conference for their paper about using machine learning to automatically diagnose problems in supercomputers.

8-Nov-2017 8:55 AM EST
Closing the Rural Health Gap: Media Update from RWJF and Partners on Rural Health Disparities
Newswise

Rural counties continue to rank lowest among counties across the U.S., in terms of health outcomes. A group of national organizations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National 4-H Council are leading the way to close the rural health gap.

       
Released: 1-Nov-2017 3:05 PM EDT
Berkeley Lab-led ECP Pagoda Project Rolls Out First Software Libraries
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Just one year after the Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Program began funding projects to prepare scientific applications for exascale supercomputers, the Pagoda Project - led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - has successfully reached a major milestone: making its open source software libraries publicly available as of September 30, 2017.

Released: 1-Nov-2017 10:05 AM EDT
The Inner Secrets of Planets and Stars
Argonne National Laboratory

An INCITE research team, led by Jonathan Aurnou of UCLA, is using Mira to develop advanced models to study magnetic field generation on Earth, Jupiter and the sun at an unprecedented level of detail.

27-Oct-2017 11:30 AM EDT
Public-Private Consortium Aims to Cut Preclinical Cancer Drug Discovery from Six Years to Just One
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Description: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, GSK, and University of California San Francisco will combine vast data stores, supercomputing, and scientific expertise to reinvent the discovery process for cancer medicines.

Released: 18-Oct-2017 4:05 PM EDT
SDSC’s ‘Comet’ Supercomputer Assists in Latest LIGO Discovery
University of California San Diego

This week’s landmark discovery of gravitational and light waves generated by the collision of two neutron stars eons ago was made possible by analyses and signal verification performed by Comet, an advanced supercomputer based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego.

Released: 18-Oct-2017 9:00 AM EDT
Using Supercomputers to Delve Ever Deeper into the Building Blocks of Matter
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Physicists and computational scientists at Brookhaven Lab will help to develop the next generation of computational tools to push the field of nuclear physics forward.

Released: 17-Oct-2017 12:05 PM EDT
Los Alamos Researchers and Supercomputers Help Interpret the Latest LIGO Findings
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Astrophysicist Chris Fryer was enjoying an evening with friends on August 25, 2017, when he got the news of a gravitational-wave detection by LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory

16-Oct-2017 10:00 AM EDT
Scientists Decode the Origin of Universe’s Heavy Elements in the Light From a Neutron Star Merger
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

On Aug. 17, scientists around the globe were treated to near-simultaneous observations by separate instruments that would ultimately be confirmed as the first measurement of the merger of two neutron stars and its explosive aftermath.

Released: 11-Oct-2017 4:05 PM EDT
How to Save the World From an Asteroid: Experts on Asteroid Deflection
Los Alamos National Laboratory

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Dec. 7, 2016—Scott Crooker, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Condensed Matter and Magnet Science group, and William Charles Louis III, of the Laboratory’s Physics Division, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

Released: 9-Oct-2017 10:05 AM EDT
Leaning Into the Supercomputing Learning Curve
Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists need to learn how to take advantage of exascale computing. This is the mission of the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), which held its annual two-week training workshops over the summer.



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