Articles in the Science Category

[ Feb 8 2013 - 6:39 pm ]

A team of researchers ran transient, or continuous, simulations on an ORNL supercomputer over three years to create the first physics-based test of hemispheric deglaciation, work that was recently featured in Nature.

[ Jan 24 2013 - 7:50 pm ]

Researchers led by Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric Research used ORNL’s Jaguar supercomputer to explore just how much sea level is likely to rise and under what circumstances.

[ Dec 18 2012 - 4:27 pm ]

A project led by Amra Peles of UTRC is pushing the limits of lower-cost, genuinely renewable hydrogen production and use for fuel cells.

[ Oct 29 2012 - 3:01 am ]

The DOE’s Leadership Computing Facilities have awarded a combined 4.7 billion supercomputing core hours to 61 science and engineering projects with high potential for accelerating discovery and innovation through its INCITE program.

[ Oct 18 2012 - 12:41 pm ]

Researchers from ORNL and the University of Tennessee are using OLCF supercomputers to help cut time and risk in new drug development.

[ Oct 18 2012 - 9:02 am ]

High-performance computing (HPC) experts from across the world gathered in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, September 5-7 to discuss the current state of supercomputing and the upcoming transition from petascale to exascale computing.

[ Sep 17 2012 - 10:08 am ]

HPCwire sat down with Galen Shipman to discuss strategies for coping with the “3 Vs”—variety, velocity, and volume—of the big data that climate science generates.

[ Aug 14 2012 - 12:17 pm ]

Ramgen Power Systems, a Seattle-based energy R&D firm, is developing a novel gas compressor system based on shock-wave technology used in supersonic flight applications by using the OLCF’s Jaguar supercomputer.

[ Jul 26 2012 - 10:25 am ]

A research team from ORNL, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Oslo in Norway recently performed intense calculations of the oxygen-23 nucleus using ORNL’s Jaguar supercomputer.

[ Jul 17 2012 - 12:33 pm ]

A special report titled Accelerating Computational Science Symposium 2012 details the benefits of using GPUs for HPC, the findings were presented earlier this year at Accelerating Computational Science Symposium 2012 in Washington, D.C.