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Over 2 billion hours served

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, located at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has run over two billion processor-hours of computations at a mind-boggling speed of over 557 trillion calculations a second as it enables scientists and engineers to conduct cutting-edge research in just weeks or months rather than years.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Tribal internship students energize alternative fuel science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, together with the US Department of the Interior, are working together to help educate future tribal leaders on energy resource development and environmental evaluations by offering several hands-on learning opportunities such as Tribal Energy Internships and the Indian Education Renewable Energy Challenge.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, US Department of the Interior's Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development

Gold nanoparticles create visible-light catalysis in nanowires

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A scientist at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has created visible-light catalysis, using silver chloride nanowires decorated with gold nanoparticles, that may decompose organic molecules in polluted water.

Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Fermilab's MINOS experiment suggests difference in key neutrino and antineutrino property

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists of Fermilab's MINOS experiment today announced the world's most precise measurement of the parameters that govern antineutrino oscillations. This mass difference parameter, called "delta m squared," is smaller by approximately 40 percent for neutrinos than for antineutrinos. However, there is a still a 5 percent probability that delta m squared is actually the same for neutrinos and antineutrinos. Theorists expected the two values to be the same.

Meeting: Neutrino 2010

Argonne scientists reveal secret of nanoparticle crystallization in real time

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A collaboration between the Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials at US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has "seen" the crystallization of nanoparticles in unprecedented detail.

Journal: Nano Letters

Upgrade to advanced photon source announced by DOE

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Advances in energy conservation, better materials for frontier technologies and new economic engines, and breakthroughs in understanding diseases: these are just a few of the potential discoveries, both basic and applied, to be enabled by an upgrade to the Advanced Photon Source at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: Advanced Photon Source Users Meeting

Dynamic Nimbus cloud deployment wins Challenge Award at Grid5000 conference

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Nimbus toolkit, developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago as an open source set of software tools for providing cloud computing implementations, played a major role at the Grid5000 conference in France.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

EStar Award recognizes innovative supercomputer cooling

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

An innovative, energy-saving approach to cooling Argonne's Blue Gene/P supercomputer was recognized with an Environmental Sustainability (EStar) award from the US Department of Energy's Office of Science.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Argonne's CARIBU charge breeder breaks world record for efficiency

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have pushed the limits of charge breeding and broken a long-standing world record for ionization efficiency of solids.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists develop environmentally friendly way to produce propylene oxide using silver nanoclusters

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new class of silver-based catalysts for the production of the industrially useful chemical propylene oxide that is both environmentally friendly and less expensive.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research / Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency