2017 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Turbocharging engine design

For the first time, Argonne’s scientists and engineers pinpointed engine designs for a given fuel using the Mira supercomputer at the heart of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, reducing design time from months to weeks.

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Bringing Diversity into Computational Science Through Student Outreach

Students from underrepresented groups joined Brookhaven Lab's Computational Science Initiative this summer to perform data science research.

Quantum Computation to Tackle Fundamental Science Problems

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will receive funding from DOE to continue to explore a drastically different kind of computing architecture based on quantum mechanics to solve some of science’s hardest problems.

What's NEXT for NSLS-II? Five New, World-class Beamlines

Brookhaven National Laboratory has reached the official and successful completion of the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) Experimental Tools (NEXT) project, which coordinated the development and construction of five new beamlines (experimental stations) for NSLS-II.

BESC caps biofuels research legacy with license of custom microbe to Enchi Corporation

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) mark the culmination of 10 years’ research into ways to improve biofuels production with the licensing to Enchi Corporation of a microbe custom-designed to produce ethanol efficiently.

ALCF supercomputers help address LHC’s growing computing needs

A team is exploring the use of supercomputers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, to help meet CERN’s Large Hadron Collider’s growing computing demands.

High Importance in the Heavens: The Enduring Challenge of Representing Clouds

With modeling in mind, one cloud microphysicist at University of Oklahoma has gone far afield to research the properties and processes of Earth’s elusive cloud cover.

Cartography of the Cosmos

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, interspersed with all manner of matter, from the dark to the sublime. This is the universe that Argonne researcher Salman Habib is trying to reconstruct, structure by structure, combining telescope surveys with next-generation data analysis and simulation techniques currently being primed for exascale computing.

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With Extra Sugar, Leaves Get Fat Too

A Brookhaven Lab research team tipped the balance of plant metabolism to increase oil content in leaves with aim of making biofuels and related useful chemicals.

Researchers Develop a Way to Better Predict Corrosion from Crude Oil

Using X-ray techniques, scientists at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are developing an analysis tool that can more accurately predict how sulfur compounds in a batch of crude oil might corrode equipment– an important safety issue for the oil industry.

UK Commits $88 Million to LBNF/DUNE in First-ever Umbrella Science Agreement with U.S.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is the host laboratory for the LBNF/DUNE project, which will use Fermilab’s world-leading accelerator complex to send a beam of ghostly particles called neutrinos 800 miles through Earth to a massive detector that will be built a mile below the surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.

A TOAST for Next Generation CMB Experiments

Researchers in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Computational Cosmology Center (C3) recently achieved a critical milestone in preparation for upcoming CMB experiments: scaling their data simulation and reduction framework TOAST (Time Ordered Astrophysics Scalable Tools) to run on all 658,784 Intel Knights Landing (KNL) Xeon Phi processor cores on the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center’s (NERSC’s) Cori system.