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22-Nov-2021
Designing microbe factories for sustainable chemicals
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Scientists have devised a way to engineer yeast to produce sustainable, eco-friendly commodity chemicals using computing power as a guide.
22-Nov-2021
Meet Gina Tourassi, Director of the National Center for Computational Sciences
DOE/US Department of Energy
Gina Tourassi is the director of the National Center for Computational Sciences, leading world-class computing infrastructure programs and projects. This is one in a series of profiles on the directors of the SC-stewarded user facilities.
19-Nov-2021
David J. Dean appointed Jefferson Lab Deputy Director for Science
DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab has appointed David J. Dean as its Deputy Director for Science. This key leadership position oversees the science and technology aspects of the laboratory’s mission. Dean will take on the responsibilities of this role in January 2022.
18-Nov-2021
Tri-Lab effort makes strides toward increasing supply of Ac-225
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
With multiple clinical trials under way, it’s likely both a drug using Ac-225 and increased demand for the radioisotope are in the near future — and the U.S. Department of Energy wants to be ready. Since 2015, DOE’s Isotope Program has sponsored the Tri-Lab Effort to Provide Accelerator-produced Ac-225 for Radiotherapy. Thorium-232 targets are irradiated in proton accelerators at Los Alamos and Brookhaven national laboratories, then sent to ORNL for processing in hot cells dedicated to alpha radiation. The purpose: producing bigger batches, faster. In June, ORNL processed the largest batch of Ac-225 ever put in inventory.
18-Nov-2021
Using the Advanced Photon Source, researchers advance battle against COVID-19
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
A virtual workshop for users of the Advanced Photon Source and the Center for Nanoscale Materials highlighted pioneering research to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants that cause COVID-19.
17-Nov-2021
Argonne accelerates COVID antiviral discovery with AI
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Since the beginning of the pandemic, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have been using AI to search through a vast number of small molecules to find usable drug candidates. Recently, they used a new commercially available hardware to speed the process, reducing searches that might have originally taken years to mere minutes.
17-Nov-2021
ORNL, Google and Snowflake formalize novel data stream processing concept
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team of collaborators from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Google Inc., Snowflake Inc. and Ververica GmbH has tested a computing concept that could help speed up real-time processing of data that stream on mobile and other electronic devices.
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Meeting
- 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
17-Nov-2021
Team earns Gordon Bell prize finalist nomination for simulating carbon at extreme pressures and temperatures
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team has used machine learning descriptions of interatomic interactions on the 200-petaflop Summit supercomputer at ORNL to model more than a billion carbon atoms at quantum accuracy and observe how diamonds behave under some of the most extreme pressures and temperatures imaginable.
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- Advanced Scientific Computing Research, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
17-Nov-2021
Waltzing the virus: Study on COVID-19 reproduction earns Gordon Bell Special Prize nomination
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Scientists used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to peer inside the intricacies of how the SARS-CoV-2 virus reproduces itself.
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- Advanced Scientific Computing Research, National Nuclear Security Administration