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Ab Initio Foundation Models for Riboswitch Inhibitors in RNA-Targeted Therapeutics

Research Project Chemistry

Exascale Simulations of Excited-State Phenomena in Quantum Materials

Research Project Materials Science

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Mechanisms of Non-Equilibrium Ion Dynamics in Radiation Tolerant Alloys

Research Project Materials Science

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Multiscale Light-Matter Dynamics in Quantum Materials

Research Project Materials Science

Photo-switching of a ferroelectric nanoscale structure in lead titanate

Large-Scale Simulations of Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction Complexes II

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Service-Enabled Science: OpenCosmo

Events

OpenCosmo: Sharing and Analyzing Cosmological Simulations Across DOE Computing Facilities

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State-of-the-Art High-Resolution 3D Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Research Project Physics

scPrediXcan Integrates Deep Learning Methods and Single-Cell Data into a Cell-Type-Specific Transcriptome-Wide Association Study Framework

Publications Cell Genomics

Numerical Validation and Simulation of Velocity Slip and Temperature Jump in Hypersonic Non-Equilibrium Flow Using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method

Publications AIAA Aviation Forum and ASCEND 2025

Modeling of Rarefied and Weakly Ionized Hypersonic Flows Using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method

Publications AIAA Aviation Forum and ASCEND

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Growing the HPC Community

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Ab Initio Foundation Models for Riboswitch Inhibitors in RNA-Targeted Therapeutics

Exascale Simulations of Excited-State Phenomena in Quantum Materials

Mechanisms of Non-Equilibrium Ion Dynamics in Radiation Tolerant Alloys

Multiscale Light-Matter Dynamics in Quantum Materials

Large-Scale Simulations of Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction Complexes II

Service-Enabled Science: OpenCosmo

State-of-the-Art High-Resolution 3D Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae

scPrediXcan Integrates Deep Learning Methods and Single-Cell Data into a Cell-Type-Specific Transcriptome-Wide Association Study Framework

Numerical Validation and Simulation of Velocity Slip and Temperature Jump in Hypersonic Non-Equilibrium Flow Using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method

Modeling of Rarefied and Weakly Ionized Hypersonic Flows Using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method