DENVER, Colorado, Nov. 17 (TNSres) -- The Association for Computing Machinery issued the following news release: ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery , presented a nineteen-member team with the inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project, "The Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model Running on the Frontier Exascale System." The new award aims to recognize innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis. The members o  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 -- The U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations issued the following directive: The Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in coordination with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Test Resource Management Center (TRMC), successfully conducted a test campaign on 15 November 2023. This test was executed with Sandia National Laboratories from the National Aeronautics and Space Admi  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news release on Nov. 14, 2023: * * * Funding Will Help Advance Geothermal Deployment Nationwide and Tap into Geothermal Energy's Potential to Provide 90 GW of Clean, Reliable Power * * * The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that its Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) field laboratory in Milford, UT, has selected 13 research p  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following article on Nov. 17, 2023: * * * Researchers have developed a process to break down the mixture of conventional and bio-based plastics that ends up at recycling centers * * * Key Takeaways * The biology-driven process requires no fancy equipment and yields molecules of a biodegradable plastic alternative that can be made into new commodity products. * Initial tests indi  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: The debut of the National Nuclear Security Administration Commodity Technology Systems-2 (CTS-2) computing clusters Dane and Bengal on the Top500 List of the world's most powerful supercomputers brings the total of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-sited systems on the list to 11, the most of any supercomputing center in the world. Photos by Garry McLe  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, Nov. 10 (TNSres) (TNScapv) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Trillion Parameter Consortium launches with dozens of founding partners from around the world Initiative brings together teams of researchers engaged in creating large-scale generative AI models to address key challenges in advancing AI for science. * * * A global consortium of scientists from federal laboratories, research institutes, academi  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The world's first exascale supercomputer will help scientists peer into the future of global climate change and open a window into weather patterns that could affect the world a generation from now. The research team used Frontier, the 1.14-exaflop HPE Cray EX supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to achieve record speeds in mode  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Nov. 18 (TNSres) -- New Mexico State University issued the following news on Nov. 17, 2023: More than 170 middle and high-school students from across New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, gathered for the 2023 New Mexico Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology, or NM BEST, Robotics competition Nov. 11. Hosted by New Mexico State University's College of Engineering Office of Outreach and Recruitment, the BEST competition engages middle- and high-school students with engine  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Nov. 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Geothermal power has a lot of promise as a renewable energy source that is not dependent on the sun shining or the wind blowing, but it has some challenges to wide adoption. One of these challenges is that there are a limited number of locations in the U.S. that naturally have the right conditions: hot rock relatively close to the surface and with plentifu  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Two Sandia National Laboratories employees will soon join the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics class of 2024 as associate fellows. "This distinguished group of professionals has made significant and lasting contributions to the aerospace profession," said AIAA President and Sandia Deputy Laboratories Director Laura McGill. "They exemplify experti  more