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The hardware architecture of the modern supercomputers and future exascale systems is being designed to include novel custom and/or specialized processors to accelerate their exascale systems, resulting in increasingly heterogeneous and complex platforms- Dynamic task-based programming models and runtimes are emerging as dominant paradigms to address this complexity and exploit the computing power ...

Achieving exascale is critical for improving America’s economic competitiveness and making scientific breakthroughs. The road to exascale is evolving toward advanced computer architectures with diverse processors. Advanced software solutions on programming models and runtimes are needed to obtain the best performance from these new hardware. The advanced programming paradigms are however complex ...

Reactor cores in commercial power plants produce spent nuclear fuel which is discharged every 3-4 years. There is currently a pressing need to safely store spent fuel for long periods (decades to centuries) using dry storage systems. Such storage requires monitoring to ensure safe conditions as the waste decays. The system must meet challenging requirements: operate at 200 C, withstand high rad ...

Reactor cores in commercial power plants produce spent nuclear fuel, which is discharged every 3-4 years.There is currently a pressing need to safely store spent fuel for long periods (decades to centuries) using dry storage systems.Long duration storage requires comprehensive monitoring to ensure safe conditions as the waste decays.DOE has expressed desire to measure conditions within waste casks ...

Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel in the United States and accounts for greater share of energy production- Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) is one of the promising technology used for the production electricity from fossil fuels- In an IGCC system, gasifier operates extreme high temperature (1375 - 1575 °C) and pressure (300- 1000 psi)- High chromium oxide (Cr2O3) refractory mat ...

Synchrotron light sources and X-ray free electron lasers are now generating shorter pulses with more intense light than ever before possible. The capabilities of these new sources grant unprecedented access into the workings of the natural world. X-ray scattering experiments are among the most common and critical types of experiments conducted in the light source community today. X-ray detectors, ...

Synchrotron light sources and X-ray free electron lasers are now generating shorter pulses with more intense light than ever before possible. The capabilities of these new sources grant unprecedented access into the workings of the natural world. X-ray detectors, as they currently stand, cannot accommodate the large dynamic range of collected x-rays in modern scattering experiments. This capabilit ...

According to the World Nuclear Association, the U.S. is the largest producer of nuclear power worldwide. In fact, the U.S. provides over 30 percent of the world’s nuclear generation of electricity. Although few new reactors have been built in the past 30 years, the association anticipates that four to six reactors may be built by 2020. The first of the reactors will be built in response to 16 li ...

In this Phase II effort, PEMDAS Technologies and Innovations (PEMDAS), in collaboration with subcontractor Westover Studios, proposes to develop a functional prototype of the Weather “Action Chain” Enabler (ACE) application using the technologies identified, knowledge gained, and preliminary design conceived during the Phase I effort. As designed, the Weather ACE application will be a non-intr ...

Over 1 billion people suffer from the effects of water scarcity. The vast majority of those affected live near a coastline in developing countries, on islands, and in remote communities. To satisfy the potable water needs of a growing world population, experts agree that seawater desalination on a large scale is required. Near-shore ocean waves provide an inexhaustible, consistent, and widely dist ...