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

Briefing

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

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

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

Original Publication Date

August 16, 2016

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