Archive for February, 2011
Young physicists compete in Oak Ridge-based national tournament
0Some of the brightest high school physics students from across the United States converged on Oak Ridge recently for the annual USA Invitational Young Physicists Tournament.
UT Classroom Brings SuperComputation to Students
0A new computing classroom and learning laboratory in The University of Texas at Austin’s Flawn Academic Center is changing the way that statistics and scientific computing are taught at the university. The Statistics and Scientific Computation Lab is a collaboration between the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation (SSC) in the College of Natural Sciences and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Both divisions recognized the need for a space on the main campus where instructors could teach topics with lecture and lab components integrated into an innovative teaching environment. “The new lab embodies the increasing importance that statistics
U.S. Rep. Fleischmann touts ORNL as national energy treasure
0One month into his freshman term in Congress, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., is advocating Oak Ridge as a national energy treasure.
ADVA takes major step into long haul
0New 100Gbit/s-Optimized Coherent Express Layer Provides Unprecedented Capacity, Reach and Flexibility with End-to-End Service Management
has added a layer to its flagship platform. The new technology has been optimized for speed and enables service providers to use optical network resources flexibly and on-demand. Close interworking with the IP/MPLS layer allows a massive increase in network scalability and efficiency. The feature set represents a new generation of and includes the following three criticalelements:
- · Optical layer fully optimized for 100Gbit/s coherent transmission technology– Besides the obvious benefit of increasing the capacity per wavelength, the true power of the technology lies in the extra link budget
New lignin ‘lite’ switchgrass boosts biofuel yield by more than one-third
0Bioethanol from new lines of native perennial prairie grass could become less costly because of plant engineering by The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and fermentation research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Oak Ridge supercomputers to model nuclear reactors
0The future of nuclear energy will be found in software. The Department of Energy announced this week it will spend 2 million over the next five years to establish and operate a new Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation Energy Innovation Hub. The project is called the “Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors” or [...]
Blue Collar Computing, P&G drive Ohio’s economic competitiveness to new heights
0The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has signed a collaboration agreement with the Procter & Gamble Company, enabling the two to work together on modeling and simulation projects aimed at accelerating innovation collaboration between industry and academia. The collaboration is the first at The Ohio State University enacted under P&G’s master alliance agreement with Ohio colleges and universities. Procter & Gamble (P&G) uses supercomputer modeling and simulation techniques in the research and development of many of its leading commercial brands, which include Tide, Pampers Pringles, Dawn, Downy and Mr. Clean.Collaboration is first to be inked at OSU under multi-university agreement
UT-Battelle Gives $140,000 for Waterfront Pavilion
0UT-Battelle has donated 0,000 to help the City of Oak Ridge begin the first project of the city’s waterfront development on Melton Hill Lake.
Jaguar remains top supercomputer; China’s Nebulae No. 2
1China’s ambition to enter the supercomputing arena has become obvious with a system called Nebulae, built from a Dawning TC3600 Blade system with Intel X5650 processors and NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPUs. Nebulae is currently the fastest system worldwide in theoretical peak performance at 2.98 PFlop/s. With a Linpack performance of 1.271 PFlop/s it holds the [...]
Innovations in manufacturing
0Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s science and technology resources are transforming the next generation of scientific discovery and helping to rebuild and revitalize U.S. manufacturing. From concept to commercialization, ORNL’s facilities and expertise enable the deployment of innovative manufacturing and materials technologies, and the laboratory’s aggressive commercialization program provides technology-based solutions to industries engaged in virtually every sector of the nation’s economy.
