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(Knoxville News Sentinel) New processors are being loaded into Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer, which could become the world's fastest machine by year's end....8/7
(Maryville Daily Times) People producing child pornography and using the Internet to share their material could be living dangerously because of a technology for forensics use that was developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex....8/7
(Atomic City Underground) Oodles of stimulus money and matching grants were announced earlier this week for "advanced vehicle electrification" to Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. and Nissan to demonstrate 5,000 new electric vehicles and 12,750 chargers in five states in 2010. ...8/6 |
(Atomic City Underground) Each of the ORNL-based centers -- one directed by Malcolm Stocks, the other by David Wesolowski -- is receiving $19 million over five years....8/6
(Nashville Business Journal) Tennessee got involved at the behest of Gov. Phil Bredesen, who is working with Nashville-based Nissan North America, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Tennessee Valley Authority and other partners to promote zero-emission transportation....8/6
(HPC Wire) CEO Peter Ungaro mentioned the latest DOE deal for the "Jaguar" upgrade at Oak Ridge National Lab and the recent Swiss National Supercomputing Centre contract as two examples where government stimulus money has made its way into Cray's piggy bank....8/7 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) In a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation....8/6
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) It was a relatively solemn ceremony on the front lawn of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge....8/7
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National
(USA Today) The Senate confirmation vote made for gripping drama at Latino epicenters across the U.S. Thursday....8/7
State & Regional
(Tennessean) The Tennessee Department of Correction will reduce the state's prison population by 3,000 over the next two years, focusing on keeping low-risk offenders from going back to jail, as a way to cope with an ongoing budget crunch....8/7
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(Washington Post) [Multimedia] The frozen landscape, dry valleys and active volcanoes that make up Antarctica provide a living laboratory for scientific study and a wondrous journey for those traveling to the ends of the Earth....8/09 [Registration Required]