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In its 15th year, INCITE advances open science with supercomputer grants to 47 projects

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The US Department of Energy's Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 47 science projects for 2020 -- awarding 60 percent of the available time on some of the nation's most powerful supercomputers, with the ultimate goal of accelerating discovery and innovation. In 2020, 14 projects will run on Theta and 39 projects on Summit, where six of these projects will receive an allocation on both systems.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

AI for plant breeding in an ever-changing climate

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Dan Jacobson is currently working on numerous projects that form an integrated roadmap for the future of AI in plant breeding and bioenergy. The team's work was featured in Trends in Biotechnology in October. In this Q&A, Jacobson talks about his team's work on a genomic selection algorithm, his vision for the future of environmental genomics, and the space where simulation meets AI.

A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A Georgia Tech team developed an algorithm for simulating turbulence on Summit, the world's most powerful and smartest supercomputer. The team distributed the problem in such a way that the algorithm reached a performance of less than 15 seconds of wall-clock time per time step for more than 6 trillion grid points--a new world record surpassing the prior state of the art in the field for the size of the problem.

Can a UNICORN outrun earthquakes?

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A University of Tokyo Team transformed its UNICORN computing code into an AI-like algorithm to more quickly simulate tectonic plate deformation due to a phenomenon called a "fault slip," a sudden shift that occurs at the plate boundary. The team ran UNICORN at 416 petaflops and gained a 75-fold speedup from a previous state-of-the-art solver by fully leveraging the world's most powerful and smartest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit.

Modeling every building in America starts with Chattanooga

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer to model every building serviced by the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga--all 178,368 of them--and discovered through more than 2 million simulations that EPB could potentially save $11-$35 million per year by adjusting electricity usage during peak critical times.

ORNL to host 13 teams for DOE CyberForce Competition

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory will give college students the chance to practice cybersecurity skills in a real-world setting as a host of the Department of Energy's fifth collegiate CyberForce Competition on Nov. 16, 2019. The event brings together student teams from across the country to compete at 10 of DOE's national laboratories.

A new parallel strategy for tackling turbulence on Summit

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Georgia Tech team developed an algorithm for simulating turbulence on Summit, the world's most powerful and smartest supercomputer. The team distributed the problem in such a way that the algorithm reached a performance of less than 15 seconds of wall-clock time per time step for more than 6 trillion grid points--a new world record surpassing the prior state of the art in the field for the size of the problem.

Funder: Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
Meeting: Supercomputing Conference (SC19)

Modeling every building in America starts with Chattanooga

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer to model every building serviced by the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga--all 178,368 of them--and discovered through more than 2 million simulations that EPB could potentially save $11-$35 million per year by adjusting electricity usage during peak critical times.

Funder: DOE's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Meeting: International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) Building Simulation Conference

AI for plant breeding in an ever-changing climate

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Dan Jacobson is currently working on numerous projects that form an integrated roadmap for the future of AI in plant breeding and bioenergy. The team's work was featured in Trends in Biotechnology in October. In this Q&A, Jacobson talks about his team's work on a genomic selection algorithm, his vision for the future of environmental genomics, and the space where simulation meets AI.

Journal: Trends in Biotechnology
Funder: US Department of Energy's Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Can a UNICORN outrun earthquakes?

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A University of Tokyo Team transformed its UNICORN computing code into an AI-like algorithm to more quickly simulate tectonic plate deformation due to a phenomenon called a "fault slip," a sudden shift that occurs at the plate boundary. The team ran UNICORN at 416 petaflops and gained a 75-fold speedup from a previous state-of-the-art solver by fully leveraging the world's most powerful and smartest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit.

Funder: Post K Computer Project, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
Meeting: Supercomputing Conference (SC19)

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