{"612263":{"#nid":"612263","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"$2.8M DoE Exascale Computing Project Team Includes School of CSE\u0027s Chau and Chow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEarly in the next decade, the first computers capable of at least one quintillion calculations per second will come online. That\u0026rsquo;s a one followed by 18 zeroes, or what scientists call \u0026quot;exascale\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;machines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese will be machines with one billion processing cores. Thing is, we don\u0026rsquo;t have computer codes that can actually use all that power efficiently \u0026mdash; power that has the potential to unlock all kinds of new knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EEdmond Chow\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professors in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, are\u0026nbsp;team\u0026nbsp;members\u0026nbsp;on a new $2.8 million project to make use of all those processors to study the interactions of atoms using quantum mechanics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFunded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the four-year\u0026nbsp;study \u0026mdash; if successful \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;will mean scientists can study and understand chemical systems that include up to 10 million atoms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhanish Suryanarayana\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the team\u0026nbsp;leader. More \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/suryanarayana-leads-new-3m-project-unlock-power-tomorrow-s-supercomputers-understanding\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Edetails about the project are included in a story\u003C\/a\u003E on the School of CEE website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34540","created_gmt":"2018-10-02 21:11:30","changed_gmt":"2018-10-03 14:21:52","author":"Kristen Perez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/suryanarayana-leads-new-3m-project-unlock-power-tomorrow-s-supercomputers-understanding","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"612264":{"id":"612264","type":"image","title":"Suryanarayana leads new $3M project to unlock the power of tomorrow\u2019s supercomputers for understanding chemical phenomena","body":null,"created":"1538514782","gmt_created":"2018-10-02 21:13:02","changed":"1538514782","gmt_changed":"2018-10-02 21:13:02","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233065","name":"Catalysis-on-Surfaces-Nanostructures-ByAndrewMedford-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Catalysis-on-Surfaces-Nanostructures-ByAndrewMedford-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Catalysis-on-Surfaces-Nanostructures-ByAndrewMedford-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":218419,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Catalysis-on-Surfaces-Nanostructures-ByAndrewMedford-h.jpg?itok=K2v6JthV"}}},"media_ids":["612264"],"groups":[{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}