ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 15 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: Artificial intelligence and scientific computing play a critical role in helping researchers address some of the world's most complex challenges--from finding solutions to environmental challenges and developing solutions that combat climate change to modeling the spread of infectious diseases. With a new five-year, $15 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Univ  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Every day, more than 50 billion barrels of water are generated during oil and gas extraction from more than 900,000 wells. The makeup of this byproduct water -- also referred to as "produced" water -- is highly variable: Each stream of water contains a unique salinity and mix of impurities, including organics, heavy metals, particulates and radionuclides. But what if we could turn tha  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security released the following testimony by Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm from a hearing dated May 1, 2024, entitled "The Fiscal Year 2025 Department of Energy Budget": * * * Chairman Duncan, Ranking Member DeGette, and Members of the Subcommittee, it is an honor to appear before you today to discuss the President's Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Budget request for the Department of Energy ("the Depar  more

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, New York, May 16 -- IBM issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the evolution and expansion of Qiskit, its globally adopted quantum software. Launched in 2017, Qiskit, as a software development kit (SDK) is an open-source tool that has allowed over 550,000 users to build and run quantum circuits on IBM's quantum hardware systems, resulting in the execution of over 3 trillion quantum circuits to date. The latest version of Qiskit has   more

LIVERMORE, California, May 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Three new systems currently or soon-to-be sited at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Monday debuted on the latest Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers in the world, including the first portion of the exascale machine El Capitan. Unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, the June 2024 Top500 lists thr  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: J. Patrick "Pat" Fitch has been selected as the next deputy Laboratory director for Science, Technology and Engineering (DDSTE) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He replaces John Sarrao who left LANL late last year to be the director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Mark Chadwick, who has served as the interim DDSTE since Sarrao's departure. Since 2018, Fitch   more

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Data-driven models identify properties to overcome pathogen defenses * * * Pathogens are nothing if not adaptable, and their ability to protect themselves against antibiotics increasingly poses a public health concern. A research team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory recently used machine learning, an application of artificial intelligence, to identify molecular  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 14 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), through its Office of Strategy, Science and Technology (OSST), has awarded $3.4 million in competitive grant funding to seven New Mexico companies in the inaugural round of the Advanced Energy Award Pilot Program. First announced in September 2023, the New Mexico Advanced Energy Award Pilot Program is a competitive state-fund  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news: On the evening of May 14, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration successfully executed a subcritical experiment in the Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation (PULSE) facility at the Nevada National Security Site. The experiment was the first in the Nimble series, executed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore Natio  more

SANTA CLARA, California, May 14 -- NVIDIA, a designer of graphics processing units for the gaming, cryptocurrency and professional markets, issued the following news release: From Climate and Weather to Scientific Exploration, Switzerland's Alps Supercomputer, France's EXA1-HE Supercomputer and Others to Deliver 200 Exaflops of AI for Groundbreaking Research Using Energy-Efficient Grace-Based Systems Driving a fundamental shift in the high-performance computing industry toward AI-powered syste  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The Senate Armed Services Committee released the following written joint testimony by Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm and Jill M. Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, from a hearing dated April 17, 2024, entitled "The Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration Atomic Energy Defense Activities in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2025 and the Future Years Defense Program": * * * Chairma  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: This week, during a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) asked Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo about how the CHIPS and Science Act is revitalizing American semiconductor manufacturing, including at Intel's facility in Rio Rancho, N.M.; the opening of a new Minority Business Development Rural Center in Las  more