Oak Ridge National Lab Archives | FedScoop https://fedscoop.com/tag/oak-ridge-national-lab/ FedScoop delivers up-to-the-minute breaking government tech news and is the government IT community's platform for education and collaboration through news, events, radio and TV. FedScoop engages top leaders from the White House, federal agencies, academia and the tech industry both online and in person to discuss ways technology can improve government, and to exchange best practices and identify how to achieve common goals. Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:53:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://fedscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2023/01/cropped-fs_favicon-3.png?w=32 Oak Ridge National Lab Archives | FedScoop https://fedscoop.com/tag/oak-ridge-national-lab/ 32 32 National lab official highlights role of government datasets in AI work https://fedscoop.com/national-lab-official-highlights-role-of-government-datasets-in-ai-work/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:53:45 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=78683 Jennifer Gaudioso of Sandia’s Center for Computing Research touted the work Department of Energy labs have done to support AI advances.

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The Department of Energy’s national labs have an especially critical role to play in the advancement of artificial intelligence systems and research into the technology, a top federal official said Tuesday during a Joint Economic Committee hearing on AI and economic growth.

Jennifer Gaudioso, director of the Sandia National Laboratory’s Center for Computing Research, emphasized during her testimony the role that DOE’s national labs could have in both accelerating computing capacity and helping support advances in AI technology. She pointed to her own lab’s work in securing the U.S. nuclear arsenal — and the national labs’ historical role in promoting high-performance computing. 

“Doing AI at the frontier and at scale is crucial for maintaining competitiveness and solving complex global challenges,“ Gaudioso said. “Breakthroughs in one area beget discoveries in others.”

Gaudioso also noted the importance of building AI systems based on more advanced data than the internet-based sources used to build systems like ChatGPT. That includes government datasets, she added.

“What I get really excited about is the transformative potential of training models on science data,” she said. “We can then do new manufacturing. We can make digital twins of the human body to take drug discovery from decades down to months. Maybe 100 days for the next vaccine.” 

The national labs’ current work on artificial intelligence includes AI and nuclear deterrence, national security, non-proliferation, and advanced science and technology, Gaudioso shared. She also referenced the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security and Technology — a DOE effort focused on using supercomputing for AI. The FASST initiative was announced last month. 

Last November, FedScoop reported on how the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was preparing its supercomputing resources — including the world’s fastest supercomputer, Frontier — for AI work. 

Tuesday’s hearing follows the White House’s continued promotion of new AI-focused policies, and as Congress mulls legislation focused on both regulating and incubating artificial intelligence

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One threat facing the world’s fastest supercomputer? Raccoons https://fedscoop.com/oak-ridge-supercomputers-raccoons-possums/ Fri, 06 Oct 2023 16:15:45 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=73371 At times, wildlife have gotten into infrastructure used to provide power to the supercomputers at the Oak Ridge National Lab.

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At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, an unlikely threat faces two of the world’s fastest supercomputers: raccoons and possums. 

The national lab, which is famous for its role in the Manhattan Project, sits within a rural Tennessee campus of just over 4,400 acres. That location is strategic and helps protect the facility, home to the Summit and Frontier supercomputers, the latter of which became the fastest supercomputer in the world last year. These computers are a critical part of the Department of Energy’s research agenda and play a critical role in helping scientists across the world build advanced models and process large datasets. 

But nearby nature also means that wildlife is able to access infrastructure that supports the lab’s science operations. At times, animals can get into power lines or substations, creating a dip in voltage. That voltage dip can ultimately push a supercomputer offline, according to Bronson Messer, the director of science at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. 

“There’s lots of raccoons and possums around here. And unfortunately, we’ve taken a few out,” Messer told FedScoop in a recent interview. “Power feed? I mean, it tastes good to wildlife. They bite into a 480-volt line and it’s not a good scene.” 

Animal-related outages have only happened two or three times, according to Messer. When an outage occurred this past August, animals only took a handful of computing nodes offline because of the redundancy built into the system. Still, small mammals prone to climbing, along with any animal looking to nibble on a power feed, could theoretically be at risk. 

While the problem is relatively small, the threat of wildlife is a reminder that physical security, and not just cybersecurity, remains a part of protecting digital infrastructure. At the same time, the lab says it’s also taking steps to combat this challenge. 

“In the past five years, we’ve made significant improvements in preventing interruptions from animal or tree-imposed voltage sags,” Messer said in an email to FedScoop. “For example, we added bands around power poles that keep animals from climbing them. We also improved fencing around substations. Finally, we have done some infrastructure cleanup to remove obvious risks from trees and limbs.”

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory appoints new director https://fedscoop.com/oak-ridge-national-laboratory-has-new-director/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:47:03 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=71113 Stephen Streiffer will be the next director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

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Stephen Streiffer, the current interim director at the Stanford University-based SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will be the next director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Streiffer is scheduled to begin his new post in October, according to a press release published on Thursday.

Streiffer, who earned a PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford, has an extensive experience overseeing laboratory research. During the pandemic, Streiffer co-directed the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory, which focused on various issues created by Covid-19, including testing and supply chain problems. He previously spent more than two decades at the Argonne National Laboratory, where he, among other responsibilities, served as deputy associate laboratory director for the Energy Sciences and Engineering Directorate.

“Stephen is a proven leader with diverse experience and a commitment to mission-driven research and development,” Lou Von Thaer, CEO of Battelle and chair of UT-Battelle, a nonprofit that runs the Oak Ridge national lab on behalf of the Department of Energy, said in a statement. “Throughout his career, Stephen has leveraged existing strengths to create new opportunities and partnerships that strengthen our nation’s ability to innovate and compete.”

Streiffer’s permanent appointment follows the retirement of Thomas Zacharia, who left in December after a 35-year career at the laboratory.

Oak Ridge is the country’s largest science and energy lab, which has nearly 6,000 people and a $2.5 billion research portfolio.

The lab has been at the forefront of the U.S. government’s race to expand its supercomputing capabilities and houses the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cray EX Frontier, which according to the Department of Energy is the world’s first and fastest exascale computer.

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Biden administration picks eight new National Science Board members https://fedscoop.com/biden-administration-announces-eight-new-national-science-board-members/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 03:50:19 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/biden-administration-announces-eight-new-national-science-board-members/ The appointees include an Oak Ridge Lab materials scientist and a satellite expert.

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The Biden administration on Friday announced eight new appointees to the National Science Board, which oversees the strategic direction of the National Science Foundation.

The National Science Board is responsible for establishing a strategic framework for the work of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and approving its budget submission. Members of the board also serve as an independent body of advisors to the president and Congress on science-and-technology policy matters.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory materials scientist Merlin Theodore is set to join the NSB, along with Ohio State University professor and satellite expert Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska.

Other appointments to the board include University of Michigan education professor Deborah Loewenberg Ball and geneticist Vicki Chandler.

The Biden administration said also that it will name Boeing Company Director of Engineering Marvi Ann Matos Rodriguez and astronomer Keivan Stassun to the advisory body.

Executive Associate Chancellor Wanda Elaine Ward of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Bevlee Watford, professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech, will also join the panel.

The NSB is made up of 25 members, which are appointed by the president, and each member serves a six-year term on the board.

Last year, the Biden administration named two scientists to the NSB, Victor McCrary Jr. and Julia Philips. McCrary is the vice president for research and graduate programs at the University of the District of Columbia, and Phillips is a materials physicist and was previously vice president and chief technology officer at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.

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Oak Ridge National Lab officials view new innovation push as modern day ‘Manhattan Project’ https://fedscoop.com/oak-ridge-national-lab-leaders-view-current-innovation-efforts-as-modern-day-manhattan-project/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 23:55:06 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=58340 During her first stop on a four-state, technology-focused tour, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks heard from multiple senior Oak Ridge lab officials that the massive investments from the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS and Science for America Act, present a once-in-a-lifetime chance to innovate.

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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — The U.S. government has perhaps its best chance in recent decades to drive technological innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) officials told leaders of the departments of Defense and Energy on Wednesday, with some likening it to the push for new capabilities during the World War II era.

That Tennessee-based lab has roots that trace back to massive investments during the 1940s supporting the Manhattan Project that led to America’s development of the atomic bomb — a feat of research, development and engineering that changed the world and gave the United States a major strategic asset in its competition with advanced adversaries. Now, U.S. leaders say, the nation needs new innovations to compete with China and address other challenges of the modern era.

During her first stop on a four-state, technology-focused tour, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks heard from multiple senior Oak Ridge lab officials that the infusion of funding from the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS and Science for America Act, presents a once-in-a-lifetime chance to innovate. The legislation, championed by the Biden administration, will provide funding for a variety of high-tech initiatives.

“We are treating this as the second Manhattan Project, essentially. We have an urgency to deliver,” Dr. Xin Sun, associate lab director for ORNL’s Energy, Science and Technology Directorate, said during a briefing during Hicks’ visit.

Oak Ridge’s technology focus areas now extend well beyond nuclear science and include applied materials, advanced manufacturing, biosecurity, transportation, supercomputing and more.

During their half-day visit, Hicks and Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk jointly toured America’s largest open-access battery manufacturing research and development center, based at that lab, and visited the Battery Manufacturing Facility there. They also saw the debut of Frontier, the United States’ first exascale — and currently most powerful — supercomputer.

“U.S. taxpayers have already put substantial R&D dollars down against this. What we want to see now is where that’s paying off and where we need to take it from here,” Hicks told FedScoop during the flight to the lab.

She and Turk also connected with dozens of scientists and engineers during the stop — and met with lab leadership.

“It’s a historic opportunity,” ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia said of the additional financial backing that the nation’s labs are receiving.

“If you look back to the Manhattan Project,” the government had the support, investments and resources that led to the introduction of entirely new technologies and associated fields, he noted.

Now, he said, the national lab system once again has boosted resources and a responsibility to deploy and demonstrate innovative capabilities to drive new breakthroughs supporting national security.

“It’s a historic opportunity,” Zacharia said. “We have a once in a generation opportunity to make this real.”

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Hicks’ multi-state tour to focus on emerging and disruptive defense tech https://fedscoop.com/hicks-multi-state-tour-to-focus-on-emerging-and-disruptive-defense-tech/ Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:20:55 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=58165 Military technologies and strategic competition against China will be a primary focus for the deputy secretary of defense on her upcoming trip.

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Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks will tour government and research facilities across four states this week, where she will be briefed on and observe advanced technology projects the Pentagon is increasingly prioritizing to prepare for future — and likely more digital — warfare.

As the Pentagon’s No. 2 official, Hicks has been a driving force behind the department’s efforts to adopt artificial intelligence across the force, implement Joint All-Domain Command and Control, and other high-profile initiatives. Departing on a whirlwind two-day trip on Wednesday, she is set to visit Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Scott Air Force Base in Illinois and Purdue University’s hypersonics hub in Indiana. 

The trip marks one of multiple engagements Hicks is leading in the near term to promote tech collaboration across sectors and, explicitly, support U.S. strategic competition with adversaries.

“This is [all about] building our capacity and capabilities to compete against China,” a senior Defense official told reporters Tuesday during a background briefing to preview the trip. The briefers spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the Pentagon.

In Tennessee, Hicks will meet with Oak Ridge National Lab Director Thomas Zacharia and other Energy Department leaders and scientists to learn about ongoing efforts to bolster American supply chains — particularly as nations everywhere grapple with a semiconductor shortage exacerbated by the pandemic. Hicks will also meet with researchers and students, see the first U.S. exascale supercomputer, and tour two manufacturing facilities.

“From a broad perspective, what the unjust invasion of Ukraine has shown us is our ability to really network together — from a second-, third- and fourth tier-supplier base — what we need, and we’re reprioritizing that,” another senior Defense official noted during the briefing. “We obviously, from a domestic perspective, have stepped forward and you’ll see the next generation from procurement contracts of some of these weapons systems. But these older systems do have strategic relevance. And so we’re now rethinking exactly how we make sure, using things like additive manufacturing, we’re helping industry be responsive and flexible.”

After visiting Oak Ridge, Hicks will head to Wright-Patterson to visit the Air Force Research Laboratory. There, she will be briefed on counter-directed energy weapons experimentation and initiatives — and other cutting-edge capabilities being developed to advance national security objectives. 

At Scott, where U.S. Transportation Command is based, Transcom officials will brief her on efforts to integrate artificial intelligence into their logistics systems, among other topics.

For the last destination on the tour, Hicks will meet with faculty and students at Purdue University, and visit the Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center, where she’ll deliver a speech and be briefed on efforts to bolster the nation’s pipeline of professionals with microelectronics and hypersonics expertise, which will be critical for the Pentagon’s modernization efforts.

“We let our hypersonics capability sort of atrophy over time,” a senior Defense official said. “So, we are now trying to reengage — and that’s why the workforce has to be reengaged as well.”

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Oak Ridge National Lab director to retire in December https://fedscoop.com/ornl-director-zacharia-retiring/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:41:18 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=55561 Thomas Zacharia will depart after a 35-year career at the laboratory.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s director will retire at the end of 2022 on the heels of its exascale computer, Frontier, being named the world’s fastest.

The laboratory on Tuesday announced news of Thomas Zacharia’s departure, and said it will conduct a search for his successor.

Zacharia leaves after 35 years at the country’s largest science and energy lab, including five as director of the facility, which has nearly 6,000 people and a $2.5 billion research portfolio.

“I am very optimistic about ORNL’s future and in its pursuit of excellence: to be among the premier research institutions in the world,” Zacharia wrote in a message to staff. “When people ask me what I will miss most, there is no doubt it is our staff, who have always been our most distinguishing strength.”

Zacharia helped establish the Exascale Computing Project, Quantum Science Center and UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute; create the National Security Sciences Directorate; and advance neutron, fusion energy and isotope research. He also steered ORNL through the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While rising through ORNL’s computing ranks, Zacharia served as deputy for science and technology, in charge of all research and development programs, and before that stood up the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate in 2001.

“An incredible leader, extraordinary collaborator and powerhouse innovator, Thomas is leaving a profound impact on ORNL and the world,” said Randy Boyd, chairman of the UT-Battelle board of governors, in the announcement.

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Polaris paves the way for Aurora exascale supercomputer at Argonne https://fedscoop.com/polaris-paves-the-way-for-aurora-exascale-supercomputer-at-argonne/ https://fedscoop.com/polaris-paves-the-way-for-aurora-exascale-supercomputer-at-argonne/#respond Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:39:17 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=43340 The "stepping stone" supercomputer will afford staff and users early access to new hardware and technologies.

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Argonne National Laboratory plans to pave the way for its first exascale supercomputer with a testbed system, Polaris, announced Wednesday.

The “stepping stone” supercomputer will afford staff and users early access to hardware and technologies that will be available when Aurora delivery begins in 2022, giving them time to prepare, Ti Leggett, Polaris project director, told FedScoop.

Aurora will be one of the first large-scale deployments of yet-to-be-released technology from Intel, so Polaris will employ a similar architecture in the meantime.

“It’s a different architecture than our systems currently run, that our users have been familiar with for many years,” Leggett said. “Polaris will fill the gap for hybrid computing with GPUs, the Slingshot, as well as preparing their data on the Eagle and Grand file systems.”

Polaris will be a hybrid central processing unit-graphics processing unit (CPU-GPU) system based off Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Slingshot interconnect, just like Aurora. Both supercomputers will have the same HPE Cray programming environment and system software stack.

The new architecture used by HPE Cray exascale supercomputers is designed to handle massive modern analytics and artificial intelligence workloads.

Despite both sporting a unified memory architecture, the systems’ biggest difference will be between their CPUs and GPUs. Polaris will use NVLink, while Aurora will use Intel Xe links. Still CPUs will connect to GPUs via PCIe, and GPUs will employ high-bandwidth memory in both cases.

The first of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) users to benefit from Polaris, and later Aurora, will be those on Early Science Program research teams.

“We work with key projects with aspirations for running on the next machine as soon as possible and help us stress the machine and give feedback to the vendors on the design,” Leggett said. “So some of the first users we wanted Polaris to support were those Early Science Program users.”

Aurora will support not only ModSim science codes but artificial intelligence, machine learning and data-intensive workflows, and Polaris will be able to do that with the same architecture.

The Department of Energy, of which Argonne is a part, also has the Exascale Computing Project preparing scientific codes for the new architectures.

“We’ll be working with them to get them early access as well and continued access on Polaris through the end of the ECP project, in order for their codes and applications to make their deliverables,” Leggett said.

Argonne has a formal project with its own director for both the Polaris and Aurora system acquisitions for budget and delivery purposes. Susan Coghlan directs the Aurora project, and Leggett is her deputy.

Both projects will go through an acceptance period where the hardware is stress-tested and vetted for functionality, performance and stability, followed by Critical Decision 4, the project closeout date. Leggett declined to give date specifics.

“Those dates have been set and we’re marching to those and we should have the system deployed and accepted ahead of that,” he said.

The expectation is that Polaris will be available to the first users early in the first quarter of 2022, before going into production for the wider INCITE and ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) allocation programs soon after. While the Frontier exascale computer at Oak Ridge National Lab is being installed now, Aurora is next up with delivery in 2022 and production in 2023. Lawrence Livermore National Lab‘s El Capitan exascale computer is also due for delivery in 2022.

Polaris will leverage all of ALCF’s existing infrastructure, namely the 200-petabyte Eagle and Grand file systems deployed last year. They combine for 1.5 terabytes-per-second bandwidth, which will be leveraged for campaign storage.

The Eagle file system also has novel community sharing via Globus sharing that will remain available for Polaris users to generate end data and share it with the wider research community.

All systems will be supported by an InfiniBand Sand fabric and backend infrastructure including Theta, the current, Core-based Intel Knights LANDING CPU system Aurora is replacing.

Once Aurora is on the ALCF floor, Polaris will remain a production resource for ML, AI and data-intensive workflows.

Argonne also wants to use Polaris to explore integration with other experimental facilities, starting with several on site like the Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials that can be incorporated “rather easily,” Leggett said.

“We’re going to use Polaris as a way to explore how we can connect these traditionally ModSim, high-performance computing resources with more on-demand, urgent computing that is required for those kinds of experimental facilities,” Leggett said.

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Oak Ridge National Lab appoints Dilling as director of strategic planning https://fedscoop.com/oak-ridge-national-lab-appoints-dilling-as-director-of-strategic-planning/ https://fedscoop.com/oak-ridge-national-lab-appoints-dilling-as-director-of-strategic-planning/#respond Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:07:46 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=42568 Jens Dilling was previously an associate laboratory director at the TRIUMF center in Canada.

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory has appointed Jens Dilling as director of strategic planning.

He joins on August 9 from Canada’s particle accelerator center, TRIUMF, where he currently works as associate laboratory director. Previously, he served as deputy head of TRIMF’s science division, and led the department of nuclear physics and isotope separator and accelerator science.

In the new role, Dilling will guide the development of laboratory strategies, strategic investments and annual planning, as well as manage the facility’s discretionary investment portfolio. He will also manage ORNL’s research library, which equips staff with the tools needed for research and development.

He has been an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia since 2004. He received his doctorate and undergraduate degrees in physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Dilling’s research focuses on characterizing the strong force using precise mass measurements, in particular investigating atomic physics techniques applied to nuclear physics using particle accelerators.

Oak Ridge is a multiprogram science and technology laboratory that is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. It is at the center of a push to develop a new exascale computing system called frontier, which will be eight times faster than the nation’s current most powerful supercomputer, Summit, which is also housed at the laboratory.

It is one of 17 laboratories run by the Department of Energy, including the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, and Ames Laboratory in Iowa. They work on a combination of enterprise research and the work that must be carried out for the safe management of the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

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HHS, VA, Energy form data partnership for coronavirus vaccines and therapies https://fedscoop.com/coronavirus-vaccine-data-partnership/ https://fedscoop.com/coronavirus-vaccine-data-partnership/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:40:03 +0000 https://fedscoop.com/?p=37671 The departments of Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs will leverage Energy's high-performance computing for forthcoming research projects.

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Three federal agencies agreed to coordinate and share data on potential COVID-19 vaccines and therapies as part of a pandemic response initiative announced Tuesday.

The departments of Energy, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs formed the COVID-19 Insights Partnership, which will use DOE’s high-performance computing resources for research and data analysis.

COVID-19 virology will also be studied, with HHS and VA expected to announce research projects as they launch.

“The volume and quality of the data HHS has on COVID-19 has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent months,” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar in the announcement. “The Department of Energy’s world-class resources will help us derive new insights from the data we gather to help patients and protect our country.”

The new partnership builds on the work of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which is offering resources to global researchers.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory‘s Summit is one of the world’s fastest supercomputers and already running complex analyses on massive, integrated coronavirus datasets. Now it will be put to work by the COVID-19 Insights Partnership as well.

“Our nation’s understanding of COVID-19 has already benefitted greatly from our world-leading high-performance computing and artificial intelligence resources,” Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said in a statement. “And we look forward to continuing our coordination across Federal departments and agencies in the fight against this virus.”

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