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Supercomputing aids scientists seeking therapies for deadly bacterial disease

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team led by Abhishek Singharoy, assistant professor at Arizona State University, has used the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to simulate the structure of a possible drug target for the bacterium that causes rabbit fever. By simulating a protein called Francisella lipoprotein 3 (Flpp3), the team revealed the different possible states the protein can exist in and is virtually screening compounds that might interfere with the protein.

Story tips: Mining for COVID, rules to grow by and the 3D connection

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL story Tips: Mining for COVID, rules to grow by and the 3D connection.

Journal: Energy Storage Materials
Funder: Department of Energy Office of Science; Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Oak Ridge National Laboratory Laboratory Directed Research and Development program

ORNL, LANL-developed quantum technologies go the distance

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

For the second year in a row, a team of scientists from DOE's Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories led a demonstration hosted by EPB, a utility and telecommunications company, to test quantum-based technologies that could improve the cybersecurity, longevity and efficiency of the nation's power grid. Among other successes, the researchers drastically increased the range these resources can cover in collaboration with new industry partner Qubitekk.

Funder: and Emergency Response, Energy Security, Department of Energy Office of Cybersecurity

Oak Ridge National Laboratory advanced manufacturing innovation helps industry in COVID-19 fight

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and Carbon Fiber Technology Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using their materials science, fiber production and additive manufacturing expertise and capabilities to produce tooling such as custom molds for injection molding to provide US industry with the necessary resources to mass produce healthcare supplies in record time.

3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are refining their design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core, scaling up the additive manufacturing process necessary to build it, and developing methods to confirm the consistency and reliability of its printed components.

Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy

Simulations forecast nationwide increase in human exposure to extreme climate events

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using ORNL's now-decommissioned Titan supercomputer, a team of researchers estimated the combined consequences of many different extreme climate events at the county level, a unique approach that provided unprecedented regional and national climate projections that identified the areas most likely to face climate-related challenges.

Funder: National Climate Computing Research Center, National Center for Atmospheric Research, DOE/US Department of Energy

Story tips: Tracking populations, UPS' special delivery and a long-awaited benchmark

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ORNL Story Tips: Tracking populations, UPS' special delivery and a long-awaited benchmark.

Funder: Department of Energy Office of Science; DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy; Department of Defense; DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technologies Office

Major upgrades of particle detectors + electronics prepare CERN experiment to stream a data tsunami

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For a gargantuan nuclear physics experiment at CERN that will generate big data at unprecedented rates--called A Large Ion Collider Experiment, or ALICE -- the University of Tennessee has worked with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to lead a group of U.S. nuclear physicists from a suite of institutions in the design, development, mass production and delivery of a significant upgrade of novel particle detectors and state-of-the art electronics.

Advanced software framework expedites quantum-classical programming

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

An ORNL team developed the XACC software framework to help researchers harness the potential power of quantum processing units, or QPUs. XACC offloads portions of quantum-classical computing workloads from the host CPU to an attached quantum accelerator, which calculates results and sends them back to the original system.

Successful delivery: ORNL demonstrates bi-directional wireless charging on UPS truck

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) demonstrated a 20-kilowatt bi-directional wireless charging system installed on a UPS medium-duty, plug-in hybrid electric delivery truck. The project is the first of its kind to achieve power transfer at this rate across an 11-inch air gap, advancing the technology to a new class of larger vehicles with higher ground clearance.

Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office

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