A four-way switch promises greater tunability of layered materials

A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University made the first experimental observation of a material phase that had been predicted but never seen.
14-Nov-2019 3:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

In its 15th year, INCITE advances open science with supercomputer grants to 47 projects

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 47 science projects for 2020—awarding 60 percent of the available time on some of the nation’s most powerful supercomputers, with the ultimate...
18-Nov-2019 9:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

ORNL to host 13 teams for DOE CyberForce Competition

Oak Ridge National Laboratory will give college students the chance to practice cybersecurity skills in a real-world setting as a host of the Department of Energy’s fifth collegiate CyberForce Competition on Nov. 16.
14-Nov-2019 12:35 PM EST Add to Favorites

AI for Plant Breeding in an Ever-Changing Climate

In this Q&A, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Dan Jacobson talks about his team’s work on a genomic selection algorithm, his vision for the future of environmental genomics, and the space where simulation meets AI.
13-Nov-2019 5:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit

A team at Georgia Tech created a new turbulence algorithm optimized for the Summit supercomputer. It reached a performance of less than 15 seconds of wall-clock time per time step for more than 6 trillion grid points—a new world record surpassing...
13-Nov-2019 4:55 PM EST Add to Favorites

Can a UNICORN Outrun Earthquakes?

A UTokyo team transformed its UNICORN code into an AI-like algorithm to more quickly simulate a tectonic plate deformation that leads to earthquakes. The team ran UNICORN at 416 petaflops and gained a 75-fold speedup from a previous state-of-the-art...
13-Nov-2019 4:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

Modeling Every Building in America Starts with Chattanooga

An ORNL team used the Titan supercomputer to model every building serviced by the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga—all 178,368 of them—and discovered that EPB could potentially save $11–$35 million per year by adjusting electricity usage...
13-Nov-2019 4:20 PM EST Add to Favorites

Machine learning analyses help unlock secrets of stable ‘supercrystal’

By blasting a frustrated mixture of materials with quick pulses of laser light, researchers transformed a superlattice into a supercrystal, a rare, repeating, three-dimensional structural much larger than an ordinary crystal. Using machine learning...
7-Nov-2019 4:55 PM EST Add to Favorites

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