U.S. Department of Energy to develop software using supercomputers that will accelerate design of new materials

Briefing

December 5, 2016

Briefing	Open-source software – U.S. Department of Energy will invest $16 million on two four-year research projects that will develop advanced open-source software to be used by academic and industry researchers for design of new materials Use of supercomputers – Researchers will leverage Cori supercomputer (30-petaflop/s) at Berkeley Lab, Titan computer (27-petaflop/s) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Mira computer (10-petaflop/s) at Argonne National Laboratory for project implementation Expected outcome – Include discovery of new functional materials for electronics, photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, information storage and energy storage
Accelerator	Advanced Materials, Clean Energy Generation, Distribution and Management, Computation and Storage
Sector	Energy, Government (excluding military), Information Technology
Organization	Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
Source	Weiner, J., "Energy department to invest $16 million in computer design of materials", Berkeley Lab News Center, https://newscenter.lbl.gov/; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	August 16, 2016

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