The College of Computing at Georgia Tech, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (ORNL) and UT-Battelle today announced
a wide-ranging collaborative agreement to share facilities,
staff and scientific resources aimed at significantly
increasing the United States’ capability to carry
out large-scale research efforts reliant on advanced
supercomputing technology. This unique, public-private
collaboration is expected to position the Southeast
as a key center in high-performance computing research
and development.
Selected
research projects expected to benefit from the
ORNL collaboration
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Georgia Tech researchers in the field
of systems biology, who integrate mathematics,
physics, chemistry and biology with high-performance
computing and engineering in order to harness
the vast information growing out of the sequencing
of the human genome and apply it to the detection
and prevention of diseases
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Researchers in the School of Physics, who employ
computer-based nanoscale simulations to discover
new technologies that can be used to store massive
amounts of information in a compact space |
“The College of Computing was created to make
it easier to partner with leading research centers and
academic institutions and to elevate computer science
research and education on a national and global scale,”
said Richard DeMillo, dean of the College of Computing.
“We firmly believe that this partnership will
create a one-of-a-kind environment and help reinvigorate
U.S. capabilities in supercomputing.”
As part of the agreement, Thomas Zacharia, associate
laboratory director for ORNL’s Computing and Computational
Sciences Directorate, will be appointed as a professor
in Tech’s College of Computing. Subsequent joint
appointments of faculty and staff, as well as an ongoing
distribution of research students and computing resources,
will follow in the coming months. In addition, with
support from UT-Battelle — the non-profit partnership
between the University of Tennessee and Battelle charged
with managing ORNL operations — the College’s
Computational Science and Engineering Division will
open a campus at ORNL dedicated to advanced computational
science and engineering research and graduate education.
“This agreement represents a milestone for Oak
Ridge National Laboratory,” said Director Jeff
Wadsworth. “This creative partnership will bring
closer together the extraordinary computational capabilities
of both Georgia Tech and ORNL. Together, the partnership
will represent one of the world’s greatest resources
for high-performance computing.”
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