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The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has received funding from DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) to develop applications for future exascale systems that will be 50 to 100 times more powerful than today’s fastest supercomputers.
![Paul Kent of Oak Ridge National Laboratory directs the Center for Predictive Simulation of Functional Materials. Paul Kent of Oak Ridge National Laboratory directs the Center for Predictive Simulation of Functional Materials.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2016-P04277.jpg?itok=jOJBdTf5)
The US Department of Energy announced today that it will invest $16 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers.
![ORNL’s new climate change methodology helps predict energy efficiency impacts in rapidly growing areas like greater Chicago. This tool can be applied to any U.S. or global region. ORNL’s new climate change methodology helps predict energy efficiency impacts in rapidly growing areas like greater Chicago. This tool can be applied to any U.S. or global region.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/06%20climate%20tip.jpg?itok=xLN0Rl7s)
![A new ORNL-developed method pinpoints electrical service areas across the southern United States most vulnerable to climate change and predicted population growth, which could inform decision makers about future substation needs. A new ORNL-developed method pinpoints electrical service areas across the southern United States most vulnerable to climate change and predicted population growth, which could inform decision makers about future substation needs.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/Substation.jpg?itok=yEbRk0_i)
Climate and energy scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to pinpoint which electrical service areas will be most vulnerable as populations grow and temperatures rise.
![ORNL will lend computational resources such as its Titan supercomputer to support the Cancer Moonshot effort. ORNL will lend computational resources such as its Titan supercomputer to support the Cancer Moonshot effort.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/2012-P03136.jpg?itok=THyiUKYH)
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will add its computational know-how to the battle against cancer through several new projects recently announced at the White House Cancer Moonshot Summit.
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For all the power and complexity of today’s computers, they can still be boiled down to the binary basics—using a code of 1’s and 0’s to calculate and store information.
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While trying to fatten the atom in 1938, German chemist Otto Hahn accidentally split it instead.
![ORNL software engineer Eric Lingerfelt (right) and Stephen Jesse (left) of ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences led the development of the Bellerophon Environment for Analysis of Materials (BEAM). ORNL software engineer Eric Lingerfelt (right) and Stephen Jesse (left) of ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences led the development of the Bellerophon Environment for Analysis of Materials (BEAM).](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/news/images/beam_photo.jpg?itok=ALEhQOOq)
![The image above shows the chain of the studied calcium isotopes. The “doubly magic” isotopes with mass numbers 40 (Ca-40) and 48 (Ca-48) exhibit equal charge radii. The first measurement of the charge radius in Ca-52 yielded an unexpectedly large result. The image above shows the chain of the studied calcium isotopes. The “doubly magic” isotopes with mass numbers 40 (Ca-40) and 48 (Ca-48) exhibit equal charge radii. The first measurement of the charge radius in Ca-52 yielded an unexpectedly large result.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/Hagen%20Image%5B2%5D.jpg?itok=9x4IORoE)
For decades nuclear physicists have tried to learn more about which elements, or their various isotopes, are “magic.” This is not to say that they display supernatural powers.