Supercomputers Eyed for Clean Energy Technology

Supercomputers Eyed for Clean Energy Technology
The Department of Energy has launched a program that allows private industry to use high-performance computing systems at the Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories to develop new clean energy technology. The initiative, called High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Program (HPC4Mfg), is designed to foster public-private research and development projects to bolster US competitiveness in clean energy manufacturing, according to a recent press release by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LLBL). The DoE will provide an initial $5 million to fund 8 to 10 projects for up to a year. The new software tools, combined with the supercomputer, helped the researchers identify several dozen potential genetic modifications that could reduce drug toxicity, according to a university release.