Articles in the Science Category

[ Jul 7 2012 - 8:07 pm ]

GE Global Research, an OLCF industrial partner, was recently named a winner of International Data Corporations (IDCs) HPC Innovation Excellence Award.

[ Jun 27 2012 - 12:59 pm ]

An ORNL and University of Tennessee team has used the Department of Energy’s Jaguar supercomputer to calculate the number of isotopes allowed by the laws of physics. The team’s results are presented in the June 28 issue of the journal Nature.

[ Jun 15 2012 - 2:10 pm ]

A recent cover of Science magazine features a visualization from a long-standing INCITE/OLCF user team’s quest to discover the mechanism behind the explosions of core-collapse supernovas.

[ Jun 15 2012 - 2:07 pm ]

GE takes its turbomachinery research and development to the fast lane with the help of Jaguar, one of the fastest computers in the world.

[ May 24 2012 - 11:50 am ]

A team of astrophysicists and computational scientists is using the power of the OLCF’s Jaguar to virtually blow up dwarf stars, revealing the secrets of the biggest thermonuclear explosions in the universe.

[ May 24 2012 - 10:11 am ]

In a paper published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, a team led by ORNL’s Pratul Agarwal described a process that aims to improve upon nature – and it happens in the blink of an eye.

[ Apr 4 2012 - 2:32 pm ]

A multi-institutional team used a global dataset of paleoclimate records and the Jaguar supercomputer at ORNL to find the perform an unprecedented climate simulation. The results, published in the April 5 issue of Nature, analyze 15,000 years of climate history.

[ Mar 30 2012 - 11:38 am ]

A supercomputer at ORNL is helping scientists simulate a process leaves do naturallycapturing sunlight and turning it into energy.

[ Feb 27 2012 - 3:28 pm ]

Researchers at ORNL are sharing computational resources and expertise to improve the detail and performance of a scientific application code that is the product of one of the world’s largest collaborations of climate researchers.

[ Feb 6 2012 - 10:24 am ]

Homa Karimabadi’s team, in close collaboration with William Daughton at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is currently using the OLCF’s Jaguar supercomputer to better understand the processes giving rise to space weather.