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DOE awards six research contracts totaling $258 million to boost US exascale technology

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Grant and Award Announcement

Today US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that six leading US technology companies will receive funding from the Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as part of its new PathForward program, accelerating the research necessary to deploy the nation's first exascale supercomputers.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Defrosting the world's freezer: Thawing permafrost

DOE/US Department of Energy

In some of the coldest places in the world, scientists supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science are studying how permafrost thaws. Using both field and laboratory data, these researchers are collaborating with modelers to improve our understanding of future climate change.

How did the proton get its spin?

DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists once thought proton spin was simple to understand. However, after experiments in the 1980s proved their ideas wrong, researchers have been working to understand how the proton's components contribute to its spin. Scientists use the unique capabilities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, both DOE Office of Science user facilities, to explore this fundamental phenomenon.

Cracking the Mystery of Perfect Efficiency: Investigating Superconductors

DOE/US Department of Energy

A whole new area of research emerged from the discovery of superconductivity in 1911. Since then, scientists have learned why some materials superconduct near absolute zero and have discovered 'high-temperature' superconductors. Now, researchers supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science are working to identify a common characteristic of high-temperature superconductors in hopes of one day developing one that works at room temperature.

Celebrating climate data's wild blue yonder

DOE/US Department of Energy

The ARM Aerial Facility marks the first official decade of its high-flying aerial organization.

For critical marine low clouds, a research and observation plan

DOE/US Department of Energy

Marine low clouds hover in the lowest couple of kilometers above the world's oceans. They produce little but drizzle, and could never match their deeper mid-continent cousin clouds for dramatic weather and severe storms. But marine low clouds are vastly important to the world's climate and energy balance.

ARM/ASR veteran researchers win American Geophysical Union Ascent Awards

DOE/US Department of Energy

Susan van den Heever and Christian Jakob, two veteran Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR)-affiliated atmospheric scientists, have had their achievements recognized with Ascent Awards.

Data storage upgrades future-proof ARM field sites -- for now

DOE/US Department of Energy

Throughout 2016, Cory Stuart, ARM's Site Data System (SDS) and Cyber Security Manager, and his team at Argonne National Laboratory have been methodically visiting all ARM sites to upgrade the data systems, especially storage capacity.

Capturing clouds for LASSO leads to new radar techniques

DOE/US Department of Energy

The ARM Climate Research Facility has some of the best instruments in the world for measuring atmospheric properties, but achieving the highest-quality results requires knowing the optimal way to use them.

What to do with the data?

DOE/US Department of Energy
Business Announcement

Rapid advances in computing constantly translate into new technologies in our everyday lives. The same is true for high-energy physics. The field has always been an early adopter of new technologies, applying them in ever more complex experiments that study fine details of nature's most fundamental processes.

Meeting: 22nd International Conference on Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics