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Released: 15-Aug-2019 4:55 PM EDT
Stony Brook University's Advanced Computing Institute Receives $6.3M Philanthropic Boost
Stony Brook University

The Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) at Stony Brook University has received a $6.3 million anonymous donation to advance data-driven research that will improve understanding of some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including climate change, machine learning and next generation nuclear energy, among others.

Released: 15-Aug-2019 4:50 PM EDT
Stony Brook University to Test Supercomputers for Cutting-Edge, Data-Driven Research
Stony Brook University

A $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the Institute of Advanced Computational Science (IACS) will enable researchers nationwide to test future supercomputing technologies and advance computational and data-driven research on the world’s most pressing challenges.

Released: 15-Aug-2019 12:40 AM EDT
CANDLE Illuminates New Pathways in Fight Against Cancer
Department of Energy, Office of Science

As part of the Department of Energy’s role in the fight against cancer, scientists are building tools that use supercomputers to solve problems in entirely new ways.

Released: 13-Aug-2019 11:00 AM EDT
A Community-Driven Data Science System to Advance Microbiome Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), a new initiative aimed at empowering microbiome research, is gearing up its pilot phase after receiving $10 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.

12-Aug-2019 6:05 PM EDT
DOE/NNSA, Lab announce partnership with Cray to develop NNSA's first exascale supercomputer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced the signing of contracts with Cray Inc. to build the NNSA’s first exascale supercomputer, “El Capitan.” When delivered in late 2022, El Capitan will have a peak performance of more than 1.5 exaflops (1.5 quintillion calculations per second), about 10 times faster than LLNL’s current most powerful supercomputer, Sierra. The total contract award is valued at $600 million.

Released: 12-Aug-2019 4:05 PM EDT
Atomic ‘Trojan Horse’ Could Inspire New Generation of X-Ray Lasers and Particle Colliders
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has demonstrated a potentially much brighter electron source based on plasma that could be used in more compact, more powerful particle accelerators.

Released: 9-Aug-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Machine Learning Helps Create Detailed, Efficient Models of Water
Department of Energy, Office of Science

A team devised a way to better model water’s properties. They developed a machine-learning workflow that offers accurate and computationally efficient models.

31-Jul-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Is your Supercomputer Stumped? There May Be a Quantum Solution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A new study led by a physicist at Berkeley Lab details how a quantum computing technique called “quantum annealing” can be used to solve problems relevant to fundamental questions in nuclear physics about the subatomic building blocks of all matter. It could also help answer other vexing questions in science and industry, too.

Released: 1-Aug-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2019
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL story tips: Training next-generation sensors to “see,” interpret live data; 3D printing tungsten could protect fusion reactor components; detailed study estimated how much more, or less, energy U.S. residents might consume by 2050 based on seasonal weather shifts; astrophysicists used ORNL supercomputer to create highest-ever-resolution galactic wind simulations; new solar-thermal desalination method improves energy efficiency.

Released: 29-Jul-2019 4:05 PM EDT
SDSC Awarded NSF Grant for Triton Shared Computing Cluster Upgrade
University of California San Diego

The National Science Foundation has awarded the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego a two-year grant worth almost $400,000 to deploy a new system called CC* Compute: Triton Stratus as an enhancement to the existing Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC) campus High-Performance Computing (HPC) platform.

Released: 24-Jul-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Globus Announces Integration with Box Cloud Content Management
Globus

Globus, the leading research data management service, today announced the general availability of Globus for Box, a new solution for seamlessly connecting Box with an organization’s existing research storage ecosystem.

Released: 23-Jul-2019 11:15 AM EDT
Artificial Intelligence Approach Points to Bright Future for Fusion Energy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of researchers led by Bill Tang of the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University recently tested its Fusion Recurrent Neural Network (FRNN) code, a novel artificial intelligence (AI) resource designed to predict plasma instabilities, on various high-performance computing (HPC) systems. A reliable way to predict and mitigate disruptions could accelerate the adoption of fusion as an environmentally friendly, virtually unlimited source of energy.

Released: 16-Jul-2019 6:35 PM EDT
Fusion's Path to Practicality
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The Department of Energy has fueled TAE Technologies' quest for commercially viable nuclear fusion energy with awards of computer time through the INCITE program

Released: 16-Jul-2019 11:05 AM EDT
NSF Awards $10 Million to SDSC to Deploy ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer
University of California San Diego

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) valued $10 million to deploy Expanse, a new supercomputer designed to advance research that is increasingly dependent upon heterogeneous and distributed resources.

Released: 11-Jul-2019 10:05 AM EDT
The best of both worlds: how to solve real problems on modern quantum computers
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with researchers at Clemson University and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, have developed hybrid algorithms to run on size-limited quantum machines and have demonstrated them for practical applications.

Released: 10-Jul-2019 12:05 PM EDT
HPC4Energy Innovation Program announces first joint funding awards for public/private partnerships
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation program (HPC4EI) today announced the nine public/private projects awarded more than $2 million in Department of Energy funding, with aims of improving energy production, enhancing or developing new material properties and reducing energy usage in manufacturing.

Released: 8-Jul-2019 11:30 AM EDT
Argonne Team Breaks Record for Globus Data Movement
Globus

Globus, the leading research data management service, today announced the largest single file transfer in its history: a team led by Argonne National Laboratory scientists moved 2.9 petabytes of data as part of a research project involving three of the largest cosmological simulations to date.

Released: 2-Jul-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Using Machine Learning Models to Better Predict Bladder Cancer Stages
University of California San Diego

Bladder cancer, one of the most common cancers in the U.S., may be soon helped by a novel non-invasive diagnostic method thanks to advances in machine learning research at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Moores Cancer Center, and CureMatch Incorporated.

Released: 1-Jul-2019 5:05 PM EDT
SDSC’s Sherlock Division Debuts Innovation Accelerator Platforms
University of California San Diego

The Sherlock Division at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego has announced the launch of Innovation Accelerator Platforms within its Sherlock Cloud infrastructure and its newest offering

Released: 1-Jul-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing
Iowa State University

Researchers have discovered that terahertz light --light at trillions of cycles per second -- can act as a control knob to accelerate supercurrents. That can help open up the quantum world of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales to practical applications such as ultrafast computing.

26-Jun-2019 5:30 PM EDT
Using Machine Learning to Create More Capable Capacitors
University of California San Diego

Capacitors, given their high energy output and recharging speed, could play a major role in powering the machines of the future, from electric cars to cell phones. However, the biggest hurdle for capacitors as energy storage devices is that they store much less energy than a similar-sized battery. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology are tackling that problem by using supercomputers and machine learning techniques to ultimately find ways to build more capable capacitors.

Released: 26-Jun-2019 1:05 PM EDT
Practice makes perfect
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne researchers are beginning to employ Bayesian methods in developing optimal models of thermodynamic properties. Research available online for the September 2019 issue of the International Journal of Engineering Science focused on hafnium (Hf), a metal emerging as a key component in computer electronics.

Released: 25-Jun-2019 4:25 PM EDT
Study Uses Supercomputers to Advance Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Models
University of California San Diego

Multi-fault earthquakes can span fault systems of tens to hundreds of kilometers, with ruptures propagating from one segment to another. During the last decade, seismologists have observed several cases of this complicated type of earthquake rupture, and are now relying on supercomputers to provide detailed models to better understand the fundamental physical processes that take place during these events, which can have far reaching effects.

Released: 24-Jun-2019 5:05 PM EDT
Berkeley Lab’s John Shalf Ponders the Future of HPC Architectures
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

As he prepared to head to ISC19 to give a keynote address on the future of HPC beyond Moore's Law, John Shalf – who leads the Computer Science Department in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Computational Research Division – shared his thoughts on what computing technologies and architectures may look like in the post-exascale era.

Released: 19-Jun-2019 3:00 PM EDT
SDSC Receives New Funding for West Big Data Innovation Hub
University of California San Diego

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a second round of funding for the country’s four Big Data Innovation Hubs – organizations where academics, community leaders, regional business, and local and state government representatives collaborate to help solve grand challenges of regional importance.

17-Jun-2019 3:00 PM EDT
Supercomputers Aid in Novel Simulations of Gamma Ray Generation Research
University of California San Diego

UC San Diego mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student Tao Wang recently demonstrated how an extremely strong magnetic field, similar to that on the surface of a neutron star, can be not only generated but also detected using an x-ray laser inside a solid material.

Released: 17-Jun-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Artificial intelligence can make the U.S. electric grid smarter
Argonne National Laboratory

With the assistance of artificial intelligence, researchers at Argonne are developing new ways to extract insights about the electric grid from mountains of data, with the goal of ensuring reliability and efficiency. The work combines Argonne's long-standing grid expertise with its advanced computing facilities and experts.

Released: 14-Jun-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Superconducting Films for Particle Acceleration
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Researchers demonstrated record accelerating cavity performance using a technique that could lead to significant cost savings.

Released: 14-Jun-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Energy Department to Invest $32 Million in Computer Design of Materials
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will invest $32 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers.

Released: 12-Jun-2019 11:50 AM EDT
At DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, science drives next-gen creations
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

American ingenuity is providing radical productivity improvements from advanced materials and robotic systems developed at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Released: 11-Jun-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Preparing Scientific Applications for Exascale Computing
Brookhaven National Laboratory

A Brookhaven-hosted hackathon helped teams make use of new features in the OpenMP programming standard to support next-gen supercomputing.

Released: 10-Jun-2019 6:55 PM EDT
New look at old data leads to cleaner engines
Sandia National Laboratories

New insights about how to understand and ultimately control the chemistry of ignition behavior and pollutant formation have been discovered in research led by Sandia National Laboratories. The discovery eventually will lead to cleaner, more efficient internal combustion engines.“Our findings will allow the design of new fuels and improved combustion strategies,” said Nils Hansen, Sandia researcher and lead author of the research.

Released: 5-Jun-2019 5:05 PM EDT
Solving a Beta Decay Puzzle
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Researchers use advanced nuclear models to explain 50-year mystery surrounding the process stars use to transform elements.

Released: 5-Jun-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Michael Zentner Joins SDSC to Lead Sustainable Scientific Software Group
University of California San Diego

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego today announced the appointment of Michael Zentner as director of Sustainable Scientific Software, effective immediately.

   
Released: 4-Jun-2019 2:55 AM EDT
Researchers Rely on SDSC's 'Comet' Supercomputer to Showcase Color-Changing Materials
University of California San Diego

According to a release issued in April by Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), a serendipitous discovery by graduate student Dylan T. Christiansen has led to materials that quickly change color from completely clear to a range of vibrant hues – and back again.

Released: 21-May-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Laser Focus Shines Light on How Nanoparticles Form
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Titan supercomputer tells origin story of nanoparticle size distributions with large-scale simulations.

Released: 13-May-2019 4:30 PM EDT
Media Advisory: 2019 BioCompute Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing Data and Analysis
George Washington University

Together with the United States Food and Drug Administration and the BioCompute Partnership, the George Washington University is co-sponsoring a workshop, titled “BioCompute Objects: Tools for Communicating Next Generation Sequencing Data and Analysis.”

Released: 9-May-2019 4:00 PM EDT
Superfacility Framework Advances Photosynthesis Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

For more than a decade, a team of international researchers led by Berkeley Lab bioscientists has been studying Photosystem II, a protein complex in green plants, algae, and cyanobacteria that plays a crucial role in photosynthesis. They’re now moving more quickly toward an understanding of this three-billion-year-old biological system, thanks to an integrated superfacility framework established between LCLS, ESnet, and NERSC.

Released: 1-May-2019 3:05 PM EDT
SDSC’s Sherlock Cloud Expands Hybrid Cloud Offerings
University of California San Diego

The Health Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Division of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, has partnered with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (Azure) to expand its portfolio of cloud services.

Released: 8-Apr-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Melissa Cragin Joins SDSC’s Research Data Services Group
University of California San Diego

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego announced today the appointment of Melissa Cragin as Chief Strategist for SDSC’s Research Data Services (RDS) group, effective immediately.

Released: 8-Apr-2019 12:05 PM EDT
SDSC’s Phylogenetics Science Gateway Awarded NSF/Internet2 Grant
University of California San Diego

The widely used CyberInfrastructure for Phylogenetic REsearch (CIPRES) science gateway, based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), has been awarded a one-year Internet2 grant funded by the NSF to give users AWS cloud access.

Released: 8-Apr-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Scientific computing in the cloud gets down to Earth
Los Alamos National Laboratory

In a groundbreaking effort, seismology researchers have conducted a continent-scale survey for seismic signatures of industrial activity in the Amazon Web Services commercial cloud (AWS), then rapidly downloaded the results without storing raw data or needing a local supercomputer.

Released: 3-Apr-2019 6:05 PM EDT
Berkeley Lab Team Uses Deep Learning to Help Veterans Administration Address Suicide Risks
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division are applying deep learning and analytics to electronic health record (EHR) data to help the Veterans Administration address a host of medical and psychological challenges affecting many of the nation’s 700,000 military veterans.

     
Released: 1-Apr-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Supercomputers Aid Our Understanding of Complex Brain Waves
University of California San Diego

Leveraging the power of the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, campus researchers have demonstrated they can efficiently analyze more than 1,000 EEG 128-channel high-density data sets via the new Open EEGLAB Portal running on SDSC’s Neuroscience Gateway (NSG).

   
Released: 28-Mar-2019 4:45 PM EDT
Ice Sheet Modeling Probes Antarctic Vulnerabilities
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The BISICLES ice sheet model uses high performance computing resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to systematically examine where the Antarctic Ice Sheet is vulnerable and the resulting potential for large contributions to sea level rise.

Released: 27-Mar-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Modified deep-learning algorithms unveil features of shape-shifting proteins
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

To function properly, proteins must morph into specific 3D shapes through a biophysical phenomenon called protein folding. Researchers at ORNL are using various deep-learning techniques to study the intermediate protein stages between the initial unfolded state and the final folded state, which are notoriously difficult to characterize. These methods could also help identify factors that cause proteins to “misfold” into dysfunctional shapes, a phenomenon often attributed as a leading factor in the development of diseases including Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disorders, and diabetes.

   
Released: 27-Mar-2019 1:05 PM EDT
SDSC and Sylabs Spread the Word on Singularity
University of California San Diego

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, and Sylabs.io recently hosted the first-ever Singularity User Group meeting, attracting users and developers from around the nation and beyond who wanted to learn more about the latest developments in an open source project known as Singularity.

Released: 26-Mar-2019 10:05 AM EDT
GlobusWorld 2019 Program Announced
Globus

Globus, the leading research data management service, today announced the lineup of speakers for its eighth annual user conference, GlobusWorld 2019, held this year on May 1-2, 2019 in Chicago, IL.

Released: 25-Mar-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Argonne maps out virtual world for U.S. military
Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory converted 1,000 pages of CENTCOM military information into a 3D digital visualization that allows users to immerse themselves in the data using virtual reality (VR) headsets, discovering relationships and highlights by wandering through a simulated physical space.

Released: 14-Mar-2019 2:25 PM EDT
Handling Trillions of Supercomputer Files Just Got Simpler
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A new distributed file system for high-performance computing being distributed today via the software collaboration site GitHub provides unprecedented performance for creating, updating and managing extreme numbers of files.



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