Story Tips From the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2016
Using the Titan supercomputer, an ORNL-led team is making progress towards automated data tools for cancer research to glean unprecedented view of the U.S. cancer population; ORNL researchers have produced the next generation of the National Hydropower Map that provides updated statistics on overall capacity and performance on the nation's hydropower fleet; ORNL-developed Autotune building energy model calibration software beat the industry's energy efficiency standards while automating the equivalent of about 45 man-hours of calibration; By leveraging Titan's hybrid architecture, a multi-institution research team achieved a 7- to 10-fold increase in code performance for LQCD calculations; ORNL is again hosting a workshop focused on the next generation of molten salt reactors; ORNL harnessed big data capture and analytics to quickly develop deep insight for a new Kelvin probe force microscopy technique.