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Department of Energy Funds New Center at Argonne for Decarbonization of Steelmaking: Reimagining the Steel Production Process

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Friday, September 29, 2023
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $19 million in funding over four years for DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory to lead the multi-institutional Center for Steel Electrification by Electrosynthesis (C-STEEL).

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  • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $19 million in funding over four years for DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory to lead the multi-institutional Center for Steel Electrification by Electrosynthesis (C-STEEL).
  • C-STEEL is a key project of the DOE's Industrial Heat Energy Earthshot initiative , which aims to significantly cut emissions from the energy-intensive process of industrial heating.
  • The most energy-intensive step in steel production involves converting iron ore into purified iron metal or iron alloys using blast furnaces.
  • The energy for this process is low enough that it could be provided by renewables or waste heat from a nuclear reactor.

GE Aerospace runs one of the world's largest supercomputer simulations to test revolutionary new open fan engine architecture

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Saturday, June 17, 2023
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By coupling GE Aerospace's computational fluid dynamics software with Frontier, GE was able to simulate air movement of a full-scale open fan design with incredible detail.

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  • By coupling GE Aerospace's computational fluid dynamics software with Frontier, GE was able to simulate air movement of a full-scale open fan design with incredible detail.
  • GE Aerospace's use of supercomputing power and software tools are helping engineers understand open fan aerodynamic and acoustic physics in new ways.
  • As a result, GE can improve test hardware designs and better optimize engine performance and airframe integration.
  • *RISE (Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines) is a trademark of CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines.

Rolls-Royce Rapidly Powers Sustainable Aviation with Ansys and Intel Technologies

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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PITTSBURGH, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) collaborated with Rolls-Royce and Intel to reduce the simulation time of the thermo-mechanical model of Rolls-Royce's gas-turbine engine from more than 1,000 hours to less than 10 hours, saving energy and development costs. This collaboration was also supported by the computing resources at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, HPE, and researchers at the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications).

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  • The advanced technology from Ansys and Intel also supports digital research and development (R&D), which incorporates simulation and digital twins to improve engine design for more sustainable, climate-neutral solutions for drive, propulsion, and power generation.
  • We believe cutting-edge technologies from Ansys and Intel will enable us to develop smarter, cleaner, and safer engines to power a more sustainable future for aviation while also reducing our operational carbon footprint."
  • "We are confident that Ansys' simulation portfolio and Intel's compute power will equip Rolls-Royce engineers to positively impact the future of aviation."
  • Visit Ansys at the 2023 Paris Air Show in France from June 19-25 to learn more about simulation's impact across the aviation industry.

General Atomics Scientists Leverage DOE Supercomputers to Advance Fusion Energy

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
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A key element of the drive to practical fusion energy is accurately simulating the behavior of the fusion fuel during operation.

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  • A key element of the drive to practical fusion energy is accurately simulating the behavior of the fusion fuel during operation.
  • These simulations allow researchers to test theories and design more effective experiments on devices like the DIII-D National Fusion Facility.
  • Such simulations require enormous computing power, and many can only be run effectively on high-end supercomputers like those operated by the DOE.
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    About General Atomics: Since the dawn of the atomic age, General Atomics innovations have advanced the state of the art across the full spectrum of science and technology from nuclear energy and defense to medicine and high-performance computing.

General Fusion receives two funding awards from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance its Magnetized Target Fusion technology

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Thursday, July 21, 2022
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Energy has selected General Fusion for two new funding awards through the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program.

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  • OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Department of Energy has selected General Fusion for two new funding awards through the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Innovation Network for Fusion Energy (INFUSE) program.
  • The awards will advance Magnetized Target Fusion technology for use in commercial fusion power plants through collaboration with the Savannah River National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  • General Fusion is pleased to continue its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy to accelerate our technology development with the complementary advanced capabilities of the U.S. national labs, said Greg Twinney, CEO, General Fusion.
  • We are completing an aggressive development plan to deliver economical carbon-free fusion energy with our proprietary Magnetized Target Fusion technology by the 2030s.

World’s First Exascale Supercomputer Powered by AMD EPYC™ Processors and AMD Instinct™ Accelerators

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Monday, May 30, 2022
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its continued leadership in high performance computing (HPC) by powering the fastest and the most energy efficient supercomputers in the world, according to the latest Top500 and Green500 lists.

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  • On the Green500 list, AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators now power the four most efficient supercomputers in the world.
  • We are excited that AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators power the worlds fastest, most energy efficient, and first supercomputer to break the exascale barrier, said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center Solutions Group, AMD.
  • AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators continue to push the envelope in high performance computing, providing the performance needed to advance scientific discoveries.
  • Additionally, The Ohio Supercomputer Center recently announced Ascend, a new HPC cluster comprised of Dell Technologies PowerEdge servers powered by AMD EPYC processors.

DOE Selects GURU to Hyper-Enable Advanced Reactor Digital Engineering

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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
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LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --MSBAI has been awarded $199,944 by the Department of Energy to adapt their GURU Universal Interface for Simulation to challenges faced in advanced nuclear reactor digital engineering.

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  • LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --MSBAI has been awarded $199,944 by the Department of Energy to adapt their GURU Universal Interface for Simulation to challenges faced in advanced nuclear reactor digital engineering.
  • The new contract entitled "GURU: A Game Changer for American Leadership in Advanced Reactor Digital Engineering" (Solicitation: DE-FOA-0002555, FY 2022 SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 2) will address these barriers through digital engineering, reducing the time to set up simulations using the Office of Nuclear Energy's Advanced Modeling and Simulation tools down from hours to minutes.
  • MSBAI will bring the game-changing advantage of GURU to Advanced Reactor digital engineering, focusing on non-Light Water Reactor designs (such as high temperature gas reactors, molten salt reactors, fast reactors, micro-reactors, and small modular reactors).
  • "Under this contract to DOE, we will train GURU to autonomously perform virtual prototyping and simulation critical to the design of new advanced reactors."

AMD Instinct™ Expands Ecosystem and Delivers Exascale-Class Technology for HPC and AI Applications

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the availability of the AMD Instinct™ ecosystem with expanded system support from partners including ASUS, Dell Technologies, Gigabyte, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro, the new AMD Instinct™ MI210 accelerator and the robust capabilities of ROCm™ 5 software. Altogether, the AMD Instinct and ROCm ecosystem is offering exascale-class technology to a broad base of HPC and AI customers, addressing the growing demand for compute-accelerated data center workloads and reducing the time to insights and discovery.

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  • The AMD Instinct MI210 accelerators specifically enable exascale-class technologies for customers who need fantastic HPC and AI performance in a PCIe format.
  • Powered by the AMD CDNA 2 architecture, AMD Instinct MI210 accelerators extend AMD performance leadership in double precision (FP64) compute on PCIe form factor cards1.
  • An open software platform that allows researchers, scientists and engineers to tap the power of AMD Instinct accelerators to drive scientific discoveries, the AMD ROCm platform is built on the foundation of numerous applications and libraries powering top HPC and AI applications.
  • As more purpose-built applications are optimized to work with ROCm and AMD Instinct accelerators, AMD continues to grow its software ecosystem with the addition of commercial ISVs, including Ansys, Cascade Technologies, and TempoQuest.

BERG Creates New Drug Research Effort to Use Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit Supercomputer in the Fight Against COVID-19

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
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"ORNL's Summit supercomputer presents unprecedented capabilities to address some of the most pressing challenges in science.

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  • "ORNL's Summit supercomputer presents unprecedented capabilities to address some of the most pressing challenges in science.
  • Smith's research on Summit uses computational simulations to analyze drug compounds that could prevent host cell infection.
  • The partnership with BERG will extend this effort by combining BERG's human derived disease model for rapid identification of targets with ORNL's drug development research to identify the best-ranked treatment candidates.
  • The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility that houses Summit is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL.