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(EurekAlert) The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure to lead a partnership of academic, industry and government experts in the development and deployment of an innovative and experimental high-performance computing system. The project brings together leading expertise and technology resources from Georgia Tech's College of Computing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, National Institute for Computational Sciences, HP and NVIDIA. |
(UT Daily Beacon) Peter Thornton, who works in climate and ecosystem processes in the Environmental Sciences Division at ORNL, said that we are currently in the midst of a transition from “climate system models” to “Earth system models,” with two major distinctions between them....10/21
(Knoxville News Sentinel) ORNL has signed an agreement with Texas-based Da Vinci Emissions Services for use of a lab-developed technology that analyzes automotive engine oil....10/20 |
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DOE
(Atomic City Underground) David Hackemeyer has been named vice president and director of Oak Ridge Associated Universities' national security and emergency management programs....10/20
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Construction has not been approved, and the future course of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, including at Y-12, is yet to be molded....10/21
(Atomic City Underground) The folks at Y-12 (B&W and subcontractors) are working up a storm on the design of the Uranium Processing Facility, apparently with plenty of funding in 2010 ($94M) to essentially complete the design and start other pre-construction activities....10/20
(Atomic City Underground) DOE last week announced that the $30 million promised to USEC to support continued R&D on the American Centrifuge Project would not be forthcoming....10/20
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National
(Christian Science Monitor) The issue of controlling healthcare costs is so contentious that Congress may opt for a bill that punts much of the task to an independent commission....10/21
State & Regional
 (Tennessean) The Tennessee Valley Authority announced Tuesday that its electric rates will drop 1.5 percent on Nov. 1 because of lower costs for fuel, saving customers 50 cents to $2 on their monthly residential bills....10/21
East Tennessee
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Eight days before the Sept. 18 release of airborne ash during a test burn at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant, a similar but smaller fallout occurred, a report released Tuesday by the federal agency said....10/21
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(New York Times) Researchers are seeking to assess the risk of debris flows and to forecast when disaster looms, with an aim to save lives....10/20 [Registration Required]
(Wired) Scientists have found the world’s largest species of golden orb-weaver spider in the tropics of Africa and Madagascar. The discovery marks the first identification of a new Nephila spider since 1879....10/21
(Wired) You leave the here and now and focus on more remote concerns that nevertheless might be more important....10/21