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30-Apr-2002
Designing electronic devices using supercomputers
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A proposed molecular memory cell that would allow laptop computer batteries to last 100 times longer than today’s batteries is being modeled computationally on an IBM supercomputer at ORNL. This machine is also being used to simulate electron transport in carbon nanotubes in contact with other components, for future nanoscale electronic devices.
30-Apr-2002
ORNL, IBM, and the Blue Gene Project
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL is working with IBM to develop the Blue Gene supercomputer for relating protein shapes to disease.
30-Apr-2002
A National resource at ORNL
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Supercomputers at ORNL are enabling scientists in a number of fields to make discoveries that could not be made through either theoretical or experimental research.
30-Apr-2002
Probing cells by computer
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A computational analysis of human and bacterial genomes by ORNL researchers provides insights into what our genes do. ORNL researchers will soon be predicting 100 protein structures a day and evaluating which compounds could make highly effective therapeutic drugs.
30-Apr-2002
Simulating supernovae on supercomputers
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Multidimensional simulations of core-collapse supernovae will answer important questions about the creation and dissemination of elements that make life possible. They may also be important in the development of “enabling technologies” for other applications, such as combustion, climate, fusion, stockpile stewardship, and nuclear medicine.
30-Apr-2002
Visualization tools: interacting with data in many dimensions
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Visualization tools used in the CAVE™ virtual reality theater at ORNL let scientists interact with predicted phenomena such as stellar explosions and climate changes.
30-Apr-2002
ORNL's powerful tools for scientific discovery
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL offers 5.5 teraflops of computing to advance scientific discovery. Some ORNL computational research is funded by DOE’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program.
19-Apr-2002
ORNL technology gets nod from EPA
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Prospects for cleaning up contaminated sites around the country are better because of a technology and procedure developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and recently accepted by the Environmental Protection Agency. The technology, which consists of direct sampling and analysis of volatile organic compounds in water, soil, gas and air, requires little if any sample preparation and yields results in three to five minutes.
18-Apr-2002
ORNL assisting in effort to make skies safer
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
A simple boarding pass could safeguard air travelers if an explosives detection system being developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Mass Spec Analytical is adopted. With the mass spectrometry-based instrument, a passenger’s ticket would become a passive sampling device that detects even a billionth of a gram of explosives such as nitroglycerine and TNT.