High Performance Computing Activities at ORNL
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Staff members from ORNL's Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) will
be available to discuss the ways in which high performance computing
is helping solve important national problems. Multi-media will be used to highlight significant results and capabilities.
- Demo of Groundwater Remediation Modelling
- Using data from an actual site on the Oak Ridge reservation, an ORNL groundwater scientist will demonstate a computer program for
evaluating and modelling the complexities of groundwater systems.
Three different alternatives for remediation of this site
will be evaluated. Ordinarily, months would be needed to study the uncertainties
which arise from the many hydrogeologic parameters and economic factors
associated with a particular model. The use of supercomputers reduces the computational time to days or even hours, speeding the
decision-making process and permitting more extensive analysis of options.
- Industrial Interactions
- The Computational Center for Industrial Innovation (CCII) is a DOE
National User Facility opened in April of 1995. It serves as the focal
point for computationally oriented ORNL/industrial projects by
providing U.S. industries with access to:
A number of current industrial research activities are
featured in this video.
- Car Crash - Actual and Computer Simulation
- Actual video footage of a crash test performed
by the Department of Transportation using two Ford Tauruses is followed by several ORNL crash simulations.
ORNL researchers are using massively
parallel computers to model car crashes, as part of a project to
develop vehicles that triple the gas mileage of today's models while
still protecting the inhabitants. Lighter materials must be used
without sacrificing current standards for safety and rider protection.
The model being developed at ORNL for massively
parallel machines is designed to help test the crash worthiness of cars built from
lighter materials.
- Materials Applications
- A robust scientific visualization capability helps Grand
Challenge scientists analyze their research data. This tape includes a
sampling of animations produced in the CCS Visualization Lab
(VizLab):
- atomistic simulations for alloy development and design,
- dynamics of nano-machine components,
- grain growth in metals, and
- growth of thin films by pulsed laser deposition.
VizLab staff will be available to answer questions about the animations.
Return to the CCS Web server home page 
Ross J. Toedte, VizLab email: rjt@ornl.gov
Betsy A. Riley, Manager of User Services email:rileyba@ornl.gov
