OLCF and Stony Brook: Using HPC Simulations to Discover How Cicada Wings Kill Bacteria – Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

OLCF and Stony Brook: Using HPC Simulations to Discover How Cicada Wings Kill Bacteria - Performance Computing News Analysis |  insideHPC

Over the past decade, teams of engineers, chemists and biologists have analyzed the physical and chemical properties of cicada wings, hoping to unlock the secret to their ability to kill microbes on contact. If this function of nature can be replicated by science, it could lead to products with inherently antibacterial surfaces that are more … Read more

Exascale: Searching for Clean Energy Catalysts with Aurora – Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

Exascale: Searching for Clean Energy Catalysts with Aurora - Performance Computing News Analysis |  insideHPC

Aurora supercomputer Argonne National Laboratory announced that researchers are developing exascale software tools to enable the design of new chemicals and chemical processes for clean energy production. Argonne is building one of the nation’s first exascale systems, Aurora. To prepare the codes for the architecture and scale of the new supercomputer, 15 research groups are … Read more