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2009 DOE INCITE projects allocated at ORNL

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

In 2009, ORNL will make nearly 470 million processor hours available on Jaguar, its Cray XT supercomputer. Thirty-eight separate projects will advance breakthrough research in critical areas such as climate studies, energy assurance, materials and other areas of fundamental science.

Story tips from the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dec. 2008

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Stories include: "Data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory combines with computational power and tools provided by ORNL researchers;" "CHP technologies account for about nine percent of annual US power generation.;" "Californium-252 and actinium-225 generated half of the $5 million in sales for the DOE's National Isotope Data Center at ORNL in fiscal year 2008;" and "Math and sensors form a powerful tool for combating terrorism and the transport of drugs."

DOE, TVA partners in groundbreaking energy efficiency project

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Three houses under construction in East Tennessee carry the story of "The Three Little Pigs" to an entirely new level and will become a model for the nation when it comes to determining energy efficiency.

ORNL supercomputer simulation wins prize for fastest-running science application

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A team led by Thomas Schulthess of the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory received the prestigious 2008 Association for Computing Machinery Gordon Bell Prize Thursday after attaining the fastest performance ever in a scientific supercomputing application.

Oak Ridge supercomputer is the world's fastest for science

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Cray XT high-performance computing system at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world's fastest supercomputer for science. The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops, (quadrillion floating point operations, or calculations) per second, incorporating a 1.382 petaflops XT5 and a 266 teraflops XT4 systems.

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Story tips -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory November 2008

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The following are story tips Oak Ridge National Laboratory for November 2008.

ORNL scientists develop high-performance steel for possible use in ITER fusion project

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the US ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion device.

ORNL nanotechnologies big winners in DOE call

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Eight Oak Ridge National Laboratory nanomanufacturing technologies have won $8.4 million in funding from the DOE's Industrial Technologies Program. The awards are the result of a peer-reviewed competitive bid process from a DOE nanomanufacturing call.

DOE, ORNL helping industry use less energy

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory technologies to improve energy efficiency in industry have won funding from the Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program. The projects, ranging from a heat-free heat treatment for industrial steels to less expensive better welds for large oil and gas pipelines, will bring $7.5 million to ORNL and another $3 million to industry partners.

Spallation Neutron Source sends first neutrons to 'Big Bang' beam line

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New analytical tools coming on line at the Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's state-of-the-art neutron science facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, include a beam line dedicated to nuclear physics studies.