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Director's
Message: The Foundation for Discovery
In many ways, scientific discovery is the story of taking risks. Since the dawn
of the Renaissance 500 years ago, men and women have staked their careers and
the reputations of their institutions on the chance that they could reveal what
none had before them. More... |
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Leadership-Class Computing for Science
DOE's Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL has the ingredients needed
to provide America an ultrascale scientific computing facility. More... |
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Scientific
Discovery |
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Biology
Uncovering Secrets of Living Cells
The Computational Biology Institute at CCS will develop software tools to enable
understanding of the molecular interactions of protein networks in bacteria and
in mice. More... |
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Climate
and Carbon Research
Glimpses of Global Warming
Advanced climate models and faster supercomputers must
be developed to ensure that policymakers have better global and regional
predictions of future climate and its effects. More... |
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Fusion
Progress Through Computation
Ultrascale scientific computing, combined with the nation's
best physicists and computer scientists in research partnerships,
will be needed to solve difficult problems to hasten the design of
a cost-effective fusion power plant. More... |
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Materials
Exploring and Modeling 21st Century Materials
Computational materials scientists at ORNL are using the high-performance computing infrastructure at CCS to explore superconductivity and magnetic nanostructures. More... |
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Astrophysics
Simulating Supernovae
Answers to huge scientific questions may come from findings made in realistic simulations of exploding stars on the world's fastest supercomputers. More... |
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Chemistry
Tomorrow's Molecular and Nanoscale Devices
Large multidisciplinary collaborations that combine chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computer science will tackle future challenges in molecular electronics and nanotechnology. More... |
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Partnerships,
Systems, Services, Support |
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Center for Computational Sciences:
A Leadership-Class Facility
ORNL has America's largest unclassified scientific computing facility, with the personnel, infrastructure, and services to support the development of an ultrascale scientific computing program. More... |
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Partnerships:
Joining Hands to Address National Problems
The CCS has established collaborations and partnerships with researchers throughout the nation. Some collaborations involve university faculty and students. More... |
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Networking:
Linking America's Laboratories
ORNL researchers have been tasked by DOE to develop the next generation of scientific networks
to address the challenges of large science applications, such as moving large volumes of data at
high speeds between science facilities and supercomputers. More... |
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Software Tools:
Scalable Systems Software for Terascale Computer Centers
The Scalable Systems Software project coordinated by ORNL is fundamentally
changing the way future high-end systems software is developed
to make it more cost effective, robust, and scalable to multiteraflop
supercomputers. More... |
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Future Computing Technologies:
Pathfinders for Ultrascale Computing
The future technologies team at CCS plays an important role in the development of leadership-class computing. More... |
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Visualization:
New Ways to Understand the Data
The Visualization Laboratory and the Science Exploratorium at CCS enable researchers to understand and convey the significance of a supercomputer's calculation results. More... |
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Industry:
A Critical
Connection
Industrial
firms in the Southeast have an opportunity to use the computational
resources of a Department of Energy national
lab to solve their difficult scientific problems. More... |
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