NCCS Snapshot October 19, 2009

Scientists Develop New Method to Quantify Climate Modeling Uncertainty Flux of temperature might play greater role than expected Climate scientists recognize that climate modeling projections include a significant level of uncertainty. A ...
The race is on to develop a new generation of far more powerful supercomputers that could help solve some of the world's most vexing problems. Exascale supercomputers, expected to appear by ...

NOAA collaborates with ORNL

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will provide $215 million to Oak Ridge National Laboratory over the next five years to support climate research, further bolstering ORNL's role ...
Some of the most impressive images in science are produced when researchers take numerical data and represent it visually through modeling and computer graphics. The Department of Energy honored 10 ...
At the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world's fastest supercomputer for unclassified research is simulating abrupt climate change and shedding light on an enigmatic period of natural ...
Researchers use ‘Phoenix’ and ‘Jaguar’ to study climate’s past and future...

NCCS Snapshot June 29, 2009

Spider Up and Spinning Connections to All Computing Platforms at ORNL ‘We couldn’t phone and order one,’ so ORNL, collaborators trail-blaze a file system giant Spider, the world’s biggest Lustre-based, centerwide file ...

NCCS Snapshot June 1, 2009

Modeling Volcanic Eruptions Mimics a Stressed Climate Scientists simulate climate response to volcanic gas emissions to test model’s accuracy The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed 20 million tons ...
Scientists simulate climate response to volcanic gas emissions to test model’s accuracy The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide gas into the ...
The Department of Energy is releasing a record amount of supercomputing time, 1.3 billion processor hours, which has astrophysicists, biologists and everyone in between drooling in anticipation. Starting in 2010, some ...

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