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US lab creates world’s brightest X-ray source with 2x intensity for fusion research
US scientists create the world's brightest X-ray source using metal foam and the NIF laser, with potential applications in ...
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World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third ...
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How Japan took the lead in the race to discover element 119
After a breakdown in US-Russia relations, Riken finds itself ahead of its rivals. And Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...
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World's Fastest Supercomputer Goes Online, Focusing On Classified Research
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNNL) in California is now home to the fastest supercomputer in the world. Dubbed ...
The world's fastest nuke-simulating supercomputer is now online, boasting peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second and other numbers my pea …
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world's fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, ...
Four takeaways from the Los Alamos National Laboratory 'State of the Lab'
Los Alamos National Laboratory is planning to further the field of artificial intelligence and will increase its capacity for manufacturing new plutonium pits in the coming year, according to Lab ...
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El Capitan: World’s fastest supercomputer to secure US nuclear arsenal powers up
El Capitan' is the world's fastest supercomputer, achieving 1.742 exaFLOPS in the High-Performance Linpack benchmark.
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Inside ‘El Capitan’ the Most Powerful Supercomputer Ever Built. It Will Simulate Nuclear Weapons
With its 2.746 exaFLOPS peak performance, “El Capitan” outpaces every other supercomputer on the planet, including the former titleholder, Frontier, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For perspective, ...
World's fastest supercomputer, "El Capitan," goes online to safeguard US nuclear weapons
El Capitan can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the National Nuclear Security Administration's first exascale supercomputer. It's the world's third exascale machine ...
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National Ignition Facility laser at LLNL creates world's brightest X-ray source
"Your dentist's X-ray machine creates an electron beam that is crashed into a heavy metal plate; the electrons in the beam ...
Nuclear fusion could be the future of clean energy if it can overcome these hurdles
The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century ...
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Engineers develop polycatenated architected materials for innovative 3D designs
A team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology, working with colleagues from Lawrence Livermore National ...