Supercomputing Time Awards for Research to Increase Computational Capacity and Save Energy

• Date: December 01, 2010
• Source: Admin

The U.S Department of Energy awarded 57 innovative research projects for supercomputing time. The research projects selected use computer simulations that are mostly non-viable or unfeasible in the natural world to perform virtual experiments. The research would use two of the best supercomputers with approximately 135,000 quad-core laptops equivalent computational capacity to provide assistance to multiple areas, for example, improve biofuel production, enhance medication efficacy in slowing Parkinson’s disease progression, and speedup development of more efficient solar cells.