Agency News
DOE-SC
May 15, 2008
Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer to Petascale Computing
Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy research, and a wide range of sciences. More...
May 13, 2008
DOE's Office of Science to Award High Performance Computing Resources to Advance Scientific Research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today it is accepting proposals for a program to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world's most powerful supercomputers at four of DOE's national laboratories. Through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, DOE's Office of Science plans to award approximately 680 million supercomputer processor-hours at its laboratories in Berkeley, CA; Chicago, IL; Oak Ridge, TN; and Richland, WA for large-scale, computationally-intensive science projects in 2009. More...
May 08, 2008
High Performance Humanities: DOE offers one million CPU hours to NEH
On April 21, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced something new: they would be teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy to offer one million CPU hours on supercomputers at NERSC for use by researchers in the humanities. More...
January 17, 2008
DOE Awards 265 Million Hours of Supercomputing Time to Advance Leading Scientific Research Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science today announced that 265 million processor-hours were awarded to 55 scientific projects, the largest amount of supercomputing resource awards donated in the Department's history and three times that of last year's award. The projects-with applications from aeronautics to astrophysics, and from climate change to combustion research-were chosen based on their potential breakthroughs in the science and engineering research and their suitability of the project for using supercomputers. These awards will allow cutting-edge research to be carried out in weeks or months, rather than years or decades, giving scientists access to some of the world's most powerful supercomputers at DOE national laboratories. More...
January 17, 2008
DOE Awards 265 Million Hours of Supercomputing Time to Advance Leading Scientific Research Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science today announced that 265 million processor-hours were awarded to 55 scientific projects, the largest amount of supercomputing resource awards donated in the Department's history and three times that of last year's award. The projects-with applications from aeronautics to astrophysics, and from climate change to combustion research-were chosen based on their potential breakthroughs in the science and engineering research and their suitability of the project for using supercomputers. These awards will allow cutting-edge research to be carried out in weeks or months, rather than years or decades, giving scientists access to some of the world's most powerful supercomputers at DOE national laboratories. More...
NIST
January 17, 2008
NIST researchers awarded 750,000 Processor Hours on DOE/ANL IBM Blue Gene/P though INCITE 2008 Award
Researchers in the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) and the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) have been awarded 750,000 Processor Hours on DOE’s IBM Blue Gene/P though INCITE 2008. The collaborative project, entitled, Modeling the Rheological Properties of Concrete, this project will study the flow of dense suspensions and related colloidal systems composed of rigid bodies, with and without interparticle interactions, having a wide range of size and shape, and under a variety of flow conditions such as shear and around obstacles. The computational approach is based on a modified Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) model, which includes lubrication and Van der Waals forces for different shape particles near contact.
