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(Knoxville News Sentinel) There's reason to believe that Jaguar -- when the new Top500 list is revealed in November 2009 -- will have the top spot. "It might," Jeff Nichols, ORNL's scientific computing chief, said this week during an interview at the Oak Ridge lab....9/25
 (Environmental Research Web) "Over the current decade (specifically, for eight years from 2000 to 2007), the globally-averaged intensity of heat waves calculated from observations is higher and shows a more increasing trend compared to even the worst case projections from climate models," said Auroop Ganguly of Oak Ridge National Laboratory...9/24
(Knoxville News Sentinel) ORNL communications chief Billy Stair said 37 percent (351) of the PhDs at ORNL have been at the lab for 5 or fewer years. Nine percent have been at ORNL for less than a year....9/25
(TMCnet.com) As part of its new five-year, $215 million climate research agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be acquiring yet another supercomputer. The procurement process for the new machine is in the works, and, by this time next year, ORNL should have three computers capable of at least one petaflop (1,000 trillion calculations per second), according to Jeff Nichols, ORNL's interim computing chief....9/24 |
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Take the "interim" away. Jeff Nichols today was named ORNL's associate lab director for computing and computational sciences....9/24
 (Science Daily) Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, a team led by researchers from Caltech has for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors—the receptors that sense and respond to chemical stimuli—in bacteria. Authors on the PNAS paper, "Universal architecture of bacterial chemoreceptor arrays," include Igor Zhulin of the University of Tennessee and of Oak Ridge National Laboratory....9/25
 (Science Daily) Researchers in the Institute for Interfacial Catalysis at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory performed the analysis of the industrial catalyst known as aluminum oxide-supported platinum....9/25
(Oak Ridger) Actor David Keith, who is also development director for the National Association to Protect Children, gave an overview of the organization's work Tuesday night. He said Oak Ridge and its "computer geniuses" at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12 National Security Complex could be "ground zero" for a national child rescue project, helping with technology advancements, a fast supercomputer, on-scene forensic tools, and software enhancements....9/24 |
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DOE
(DOE Press Release) Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that more than $106 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being awarded to 9 states to support energy efficiency and conservation activities....9/24
(DOE Press Release) As part of its renewed efforts to ensure compliance with national energy efficiency appliance standards, the U.S. Department of Energy today issued a test notice requiring AeroSys, Inc. to provide sample air conditioners and heat pumps for laboratory testing by DOE....9/24
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National
(Washington Post) Obama to call attention to the existence of the facility in a statement to reporters before the opening of G-20 summit this morning....9/25 [Registration Required]
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) After months of feasting on the Smokies in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Sunday night promises to be the perfect dessert. East Tennessee Public Television will premiere "East Tennessee Stories: The Land, Its People and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park" at 6 p.m....9/25
(Knoxville News Sentinel) An East Tennessee businessman signed a letter of intent this week to purchase the embattled, historic Alexander Inn, a member of Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association said....9/25
(Tennessean) The Tennessee Valley Authority has cleaned up more than 1 million cubic yards of coal ash that spilled into or perilously close to the Emory River last year in East Tennessee, president and CEO Tom Kilgore said Wednesday....9/24
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(New York Times) Philips has the first entry in an Energy Department contest to build a more efficient 60-watt light bulb....9/25
(Wired) Scientists have finally located the 24-hour clock that guides the migration of monarch butterflies. Instead of being in the brain where most people expected, it turns out the circadian clock is located in the butterflies’ antennae....9/24