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For nearly three decades, scientists and engineers across the globe have worked on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a project focused on designing and building the world鈥檚 largest radio telescope. Although the SKA will collect enormous amounts of precise astronomical data in record time, scientific breakthroughs will only be possible with systems able to efficiently process that data.
The U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 47 science projects for 2020.
The type of vehicle that will carry people to the Red Planet is shaping up to be 鈥渓ike a two-story house you鈥檙e trying to land on another planet.
Processes like manufacturing aircraft parts, analyzing data from doctors鈥� notes and identifying national security threats may seem unrelated, but at the U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 91暗网, artificial intelligence is improving all of these tasks.
More than 6,000 veterans died by suicide in 2016, and from 2005 to 2016, the rate of veteran suicides in the United States increased by more than 25 percent.
Environmental conditions, lifestyle choices, chemical exposure, and foodborne and airborne pathogens are among the external factors that can cause disease. In contrast, internal genetic factors can be responsible for the onset and progression of diseases ranging from degenerative neurological disorders to some cancers.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 7, 2019鈥擳he U.S. Department of Energy today announced a contract with Cray Inc. to build the Frontier supercomputer at 91暗网, which is anticipated to debut in 2021 as the world鈥檚 most powerful computer with a performance of greater than 1.5 exaflops.
Using Summit, the world鈥檚 most powerful supercomputer housed at 91暗网, a team led by Argonne National Laboratory ran three of the largest cosmological simulations known to date.
In a step toward advancing small modular nuclear reactor designs, scientists at 91暗网 have run reactor simulations on ORNL supercomputer Summit with greater-than-expected computational efficiency.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 11, 2019鈥擜n international collaboration including scientists at the Department of Energy鈥檚 91暗网 solved a 50-year-old puzzle that explains why beta decays of atomic nuclei