From Photosynthesis to Fuel: The Next Generation of Ethanol
The push for alternative energy sources worldwide is leading to more advanced research in biofuels. Searching for new materials from which to produce such fuels is keeping researchers at ORNL and the University of Tennessee busy. Full story »
Workshop and User Meeting Offer New Insights
ORNL staff introduced the Cray XT5 system to principal investigators and their research teams. Users participated in hands-on sessions with ORNL staff to become familiar with the supercomputer's new features.Full story »
DOE Supercomputing Resources Available for Advancing Scientific Breakthroughs
DOE announced today it is accepting proposals to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world's most powerful supercomputers located at DOE national laboratories. Full story | Call for Proposals
Modeling the Weather's Extreme Mood Swings
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Leadership Computing Facility are using the world's fastest supercomputer for science research to simulate the last century's global climate and examine some of its more destructive
weather tantrums. Full story »
NCCS in the News 
- Supercomputer Hours Made Available by the DOE
May 5th, 2009
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will start making thousands of processor hours available to open, unclassified research, at two new supercomputer facilities, starting from 2010. The two machines that ... - Record Amount of Supercomputer Time Means New Science
May 1st, 2009
The Department of Energy is releasing a record amount of supercomputing time, 1.3 billion processor hours, which has astrophysicists, biologists and everyone in between drooling in anticipation. Starting in 2010, some ... - Cray Supers at Forefront of Earth Science Research
Apr 2nd, 2009
Climate Change is of course global and no respecter of national boundaries. The heatwave in Spain and extreme flooding in the UK in 2008 are but two examples of extreme ...
INCITE Leadership Computing
DOE is accepting proposals to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world's most powerful supercomputers located at DOE national laboratories.
Full story | Call for Proposals
NEW USERS
USER TOOLS
| Recently Run Jobs at NCCS | |
|---|---|
| Processors | Project |
| 64,008 | Investigations of the Hubbard Model with Disorder |
| 32,800 | Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Transport Barrier Dynamics in Fusion Plasmas |
| 32,000 | Quantum Monte Carlo Calculation of the Energetics, Thermodynamics and Structure of Water and Ice |
| 12,288 | Cellulosic Ethanol: A Simulation Model of Lignocellulosic Biomass Deconstruction |
| 6,544 | Predictive and Accurate Monte Carlo-based Simulations for Mott Insulators, Cuprate Superconductors, and Nanoscale Systems |
