Brookhaven National Lab applies AI to make big experiments autonomous.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Turbocharging data
Pairing large-scale experiments with high-performance computing can reduce data processing time from several hours to minutes.
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Molecular landscaping
A Brookhaven-Rutgers group uses supercomputing to target the most promising drug candidates from a daunting number of possibilities.
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Meeting the eye
A Brookhaven National Laboratory computer scientist is building software to help researchers interact with their data in new ways.
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Cloud forebear
A data-management system called PanDA anticipated cloud computing to analyze the universe’s building blocks.
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Early-universe soup
ORNL’s Titan supercomputer is helping Brookhaven physicists understand the matter that formed microseconds after the Big Bang.
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A smashing success
The world’s particle colliders unite to share and analyze massive volumes of data.
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Quantum gold
Driven by what’s missing in experiments, Brookhaven’s Yan Li applies quantum mechanics to compute the physical properties of materials.
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Seeing beyond 3-D
High-dimensional visualization techniques at Stony Brook and Brookhaven are helping reveal the interactions that drive climate and other complexities.
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In climate modeling, speed matters
A Brookhaven team wants to build the ‘fast physics’ behind clouds, air-suspended particles and precipitation into global climate models.
Going big to study small
It takes a big computer to model very small things. And, like its namesake state, New York Blue is big. Made up of 36,864 processors, the massively parallel IBM Blue Gene/L is housed at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on New York’s Long Island, where, among other things, it’s used to model quantum dots, or […]