Latest news from Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility on Newswise en-us Copyright 2024 Newswise 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/chromosome-connectors-take-center-stage-for-ornl-scientists-studying-poplar/?sc=rsin /articles/chromosome-connectors-take-center-stage-for-ornl-scientists-studying-poplar/?sc=rsin Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:05:37 EST An Oak Ridge National Laboratory team mapped the locations of centromeres in Populus trichocarpa (poplar), and a subsequent analysis on the Titan supercomputer showed that genetic variants in the DNA sequence at the centromere and the sequence of a protein structure this DNA wraps around show similar occurrence patterns. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/supercomputing-neutrons-unite-to-unravel-structures-of-intrinsically-disordered-protein/?sc=rsin /articles/supercomputing-neutrons-unite-to-unravel-structures-of-intrinsically-disordered-protein/?sc=rsin Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:00:50 EST Using the Titan supercomputer and the Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists have created the most accurate 3D model yet of an intrinsically disordered protein, revealing the ensemble of its atomic-level structures. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/jefferson-lab-nvidia-collaboration-uses-titan-s-gpus-to-boost-subatomic-particle-research/?sc=rsin /articles/jefferson-lab-nvidia-collaboration-uses-titan-s-gpus-to-boost-subatomic-particle-research/?sc=rsin Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:05:38 EST A research team led by Jefferson Lab's Robert Edwards has been using computation to inform GlueX experiments at Jefferson Lab as well as corroborate experimental findings. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/unraveling-the-science-behind-biomass-breakdown/?sc=rsin /articles/unraveling-the-science-behind-biomass-breakdown/?sc=rsin Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:05:14 EST Using the Titan supercomputer, an ORNL research team created models up to 330,000 atoms and ran simulations on Titan earlier this year that led to the discovery of a THF-water cosolvent phase separation on the faces of crystalline cellulose fiber. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/physicists-quench-their-thirst-for-modeling-superfluids/?sc=rsin /articles/physicists-quench-their-thirst-for-modeling-superfluids/?sc=rsin Fri, 30 Sep 2016 06:05:53 EST A multi-institution team led by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor David Ceperley is using high-performance computing resources at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to compare experimental findings pertaining to a variety of novel materials. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/physics-researchers-question-calcium-52-s-magic/?sc=rsin /articles/physics-researchers-question-calcium-52-s-magic/?sc=rsin Wed, 06 Jul 2016 09:00:22 EST After their work simulating the calcium-48 nucleus, a team led by ORNL's Gaute Hagen continued its work by moving to a larger, heavier, and more complex isotope--calcium-52--and the results surprised the researchers once again. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/chemistry-consortium-uses-titan-to-understand-actinides/?sc=rsin /articles/chemistry-consortium-uses-titan-to-understand-actinides/?sc=rsin Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:05:52 EST A multi-institution team led by the University of Alabama's David Dixon is using Titan to understand actinide chemistry at the molecular level in hopes of designing methods to clean up contamination and safely store spent nuclear fuel. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/broadening-the-bilayer/?sc=rsin /articles/broadening-the-bilayer/?sc=rsin Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:05:54 EST To better understand the biological processes that govern lipid raft formation--processes with broad implications for research ranging from how cells regulate proteins to how viruses invade healthy human cells--ORNL researchers are using two world-class research facilities to study the presence and formation of these nanoscale lipid patches. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/titan-targets-tumors/?sc=rsin /articles/titan-targets-tumors/?sc=rsin Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:05:10 EST Researchers at the German research laboratory Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf are using Titan to understand and control new methods for particle acceleration that could have big impacts on laser-driven tumor removal. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/fighting-fire-with-firefoam/?sc=rsin /articles/fighting-fire-with-firefoam/?sc=rsin Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:05:51 EST Using the Titan supercomputer, researchers at insurance company FM Global are trying to better understand fire growth and suppression for commercial and industrial storage warehouses. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/titan-takes-on-the-big-one/?sc=rsin /articles/titan-takes-on-the-big-one/?sc=rsin Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:05:00 EST A team led by Thomas Jordan of the Southern California Earthquake Center, headquartered at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is using the Titan supercomputer to develop physics-based earthquake simulations to better understand earthquake systems, including the potential seismic hazards from known faults and the impact of strong ground motions on urban areas. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/flowing-toward-red-blood-cell-breakthroughs/?sc=rsin /articles/flowing-toward-red-blood-cell-breakthroughs/?sc=rsin Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:05:00 EST A team led by Brown's George Karniadakis, is using the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer to simulate hundreds of millions of red blood cells in an attempt to develop better drug delivery methods and predictors to fight against tumor formation and sickle cell anemia. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/nanoelectronics-researchers-employ-titan-for-an-electrifying-simulation-speedup/?sc=rsin /articles/nanoelectronics-researchers-employ-titan-for-an-electrifying-simulation-speedup/?sc=rsin Wed, 14 Oct 2015 09:05:00 EST Researchers at ETH Zurich led by Mathieu Luisier are using the Titan supercomputer to simulate nanoscale electronics devices. The team ran the largest such simulation to date Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/titan-helps-unpuzzle-decades-old-plutonium-perplexities/?sc=rsin /articles/titan-helps-unpuzzle-decades-old-plutonium-perplexities/?sc=rsin Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:05:00 EST Through an allocation by the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge, a team of condensed matter theorists at Rutgers University, led by Professors Gabriel Kotliar and Kristjan Haule, used nearly 10 million Titan core hours to calculate the electronic and magnetic structure of plutonium using a combination of density functional theory calculations and the leading-edge dynamical mean field theory technique. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/researchers-mine-information-from-next-generation-subsurface-flow-simulations/?sc=rsin /articles/researchers-mine-information-from-next-generation-subsurface-flow-simulations/?sc=rsin Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:05:00 EST A research team led by Virginia Tech's James McClure are using resources at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to improve understanding of transport phenomena in multiphase systems. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility /articles/the-future-of-forecasting/?sc=rsin /articles/the-future-of-forecasting/?sc=rsin Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:05:00 EST Researchers from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts have used the Titan supercomputer, located at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to refine their highly lauded weather prediction model, the Integrated Forecasting System, in hopes of further understanding their future computational needs for more localized weather forecasts. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility