Scientific studies on climate change, energy and alternative
fuels are among the 30 projects awarded more than 145 million
processing hours on supercomputers at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory through the Department of Energy’s Innovative and
Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE)
program. Through INCITE, researchers from industry, academia and
government research facilities receive access to computing power
at the National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL for
research on climate change, fusion energy, nanoscience,
materials, chemistry, astrophysics, and other areas. "The
Department of Energy's Office of Science has two of the top 10
most powerful supercomputers, and using them through the INCITE
program is having a transformational effect on America's
scientific and economic competitiveness," DOE Under Secretary
for Science Raymond L. Orbach said. "Once considered the domain
of only small groups of researchers, supercomputers today are
tools for discovery, driving scientific adva