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In one newly funded HPC4Materials project, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Siemens Energy, Inc. will work to use high-performance computing to look at crack initiation and growth in forged parts (rotor components) for gas turbines. In combination with existing developments in the area of probabilistic design, the project aims to enable better overall part reliability and a move toward greater than 65 percent energy efficiency, as well as allow for flexible operation in the emerging energy mix of renewables and fossil sources.