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High-speed network connection ties top universities to ORNL

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's new computer link to Atlanta is 200,000 times faster than the fastest dial-up connections typical of home computers and is expected to spur significant advances in science and economic development in the region and beyond. With the new link, a data file the size of the film "Gone With the Wind" could be transmitted in a mere six seconds.

Energy Department awards $103 million for post-genomic research

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham today announced five major research awards for post-genomic research. The awards total $103 million over the next five years. Research will be conducted at six national laboratories, 16 universities and research hospitals and four private research institutes.

ORNL receives $21.7 million for DOE's Genomes to Life

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is named on three of five Department of Energy awards for the Genomes to Life program and will receive about $21.7 million as part of a massive effort that promises payoffs for energy and environmental applications.

Seattle, Chicago headed in opposite directions in holiday temp survey

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

If you think it's hotter on the Fourth of July than it used to be, unless you live in Chicago, Knoxville or a few select cities, chances are it's just a case of faulty memory.

ORNL adds three R&D 100 Awards to DOE lab-leading total

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won three R&D 100 Awards from R&D magazine, which annually gives awards for the 100 most significant innovations of the year.

ORNL computer 8th fastest in world

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has moved up 21 places to claim the No. 8 spot – and No. 1 in the Southeast -- in the Top500 list of fastest computers in the world.

New NCAR, ORNL climate simulation doubles detail of previous models

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Climate studies just doubled in resolution because of a new model developed and implemented by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and run on the Cheetah supercomputer.

ORNL team earns national award of excellence

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A major breakthrough in imaging technology produced at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has earned a 2002 Federal Laboratory Award of Excellence in Technology Transfer. The technology, a direct-to-digital holography process, allows for high-speed and high-sensitivity detection of defects in semiconductor device structures.

ORNL to work with Habitat on energy efficient houses

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An effort to construct up to 20 local Habitat for Humanity houses with state-of-the-art energy efficient building technologies was announced today during a ceremony at Lenoir City's Harmony Heights subdivision.

Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 2002

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Story tips include "crackdown on boiler breaks" (manufacturing), "towers of power" (homeland defense), and "power to go" and "biomass to the rescue (energy).