LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: On the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will go behind the scenes of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) latest groundbreaking achievement: El Capitan, the world's most powerful supercomputer. Listen on Apple or Spotify. Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) with AMD's new Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), El C  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Nov. 20, 2024: * * * The Testing Risks of AI for National Security (TRAINS) Taskforce brings together experts from Commerce, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, NSA, and NIH to address national security concerns and strengthen American leadership in AI innovation * * * Today, the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute at the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NI  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and AMD, have officially unveiled El Capitan as the world's most powerful supercomputer and first exascale system dedicated to national security. Verified at 1.742 exaFLOPs (1.742 quintillion calculations per sec  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: In a groundbreaking development for computational science, a team of National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Tri-Lab researchers has unveiled a revolutionary approach to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE), the world's largest computer chip. Running on the second-generation Cerebras WSE-2 -- a cutting-edge  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, Nov. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Six national laboratories and eight universities will seek to increase the supply diversity of electric vehicle batteries and relieve supply chain concerns * * * A $50 million consortium will develop sodium-ion batteries that will be a more sustainable and lower-cost alternative to lithium-ion technology and begin to foster an industrial ecosystem for sodium-ion   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists used neutron scattering to study how tweaking the ionic clusters in ionizable polymer solutions affects their structure. The polymer building blocks are marked in gold and the ionizable groups in red. Findings could open doors to lighter, more efficient clean energy devices. Credit: Phoenix Pleasant/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Electrolytes that convert che  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: Pyongyang's Radioactive Fingerprints: Nuclear Forensics In Action On Feb. 12, 2013, several thousand feet beneath the rugged mountains of the Korean Peninsula, a massive blast rocked the earth, sending both real and figurative shockwaves through the international community. That morning, in monitoring stations scattered across the globe, geologists registered the detonation as unusual seismic activity, which appea  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following article: * * * Fueled by PNNL's Energy Storage for Social Equity Partnership * * * By Alyssa Gorrell The recent ribbon-cutting ceremony at Klickitat Valley Health (KVH) was a proud moment in the journey of the Energy Storage for Social Equity (ES4SE) initiative, a joint effort between Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Sandia National Laboratories, funded   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Native American women nationwide are getting a special opportunity. They're receiving hands-on training in photovoltaic panel installation, with the goal to equip them to set up residential and community systems on tribal land. Sandra Begay, an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, and a member of the Navajo Nation, serves as one of four mentors in this initia  more