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World-leading HPC centers partner to form accelerated computing institute

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Leaders in hybrid accelerated high-performance computing in the United States, Japan, and Switzerland have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing an international institute dedicated to common goals, the sharing of HPC expertise, and forward-thinking evaluation of computing architecture.

Accelerating cancer research with deep learning

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL, Tourassi's team applied deep learning to extract useful information from cancer pathology reports, a foundational element of cancer surveillance. Working with modest datasets, the team obtained preliminary findings that demonstrate deep learning's potential for cancer surveillance.

ORNL wins 7 R&D 100 Awards

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received seven R&D 100 Awards in recognition of their significant advancements in science and technology.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2016

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mixing lignin with rubber yields better renewable thermoplastics; scientists can 'squeeze' more fuel from shale; ORNL hosts and Buildings 13 conference to discuss building envelope issues.

Journal: Green Chemistry

3-D-printed permanent magnets outperform conventional versions, conserve rare materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated that permanent magnets produced by additive manufacturing can outperform bonded magnets made using traditional techniques while conserving critical materials. Scientists fabricated isotropic, near-net-shape, neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) bonded magnets at DOE's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL using the Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) machine.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office

Collaboration yields open source technology for computational science

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The gap between the computational science and open source software communities just got smaller -- thanks to an international collaboration among national laboratories, universities and industry.

Nickel-78 is a 'doubly magic' isotope, supercomputing calculations confirm

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

'Doubly magic' atomic nuclei have greater stability than their neighbors thanks to having shells that are fully occupied by both protons and neutrons. Theoretical physicists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently used Titan, America's most powerful supercomputer, to compute the nuclear structure of nickel-78 and found that this neutron-rich nucleus is indeed doubly magic. The results may improve understanding of the origin, organization and interactions of stable matter.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Six ORNL researchers elected fellows of the American Physical Society

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Six researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society.

Unraveling the science behind biomass breakdown

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using the Titan supercomputer, an ORNL team created models of up to 330,000 atoms that led to the discovery of a THF-water cosolvent phase separation on the faces of crystalline cellulose fiber.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

ORNL offers new partnership opportunities for small businesses

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Small businesses in the clean-energy sector have another opportunity to request technical assistance from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the DOE Small Business Vouchers Pilot.