{"612271":{"#nid":"612271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"$2.8M DoE Exascale Computing Project Team Includes School of CSE\u0027s Chau and Chow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) associate professors are part of a research team\u0026nbsp;that aims to unlock the\u0026nbsp;power of next-generation supercomputers to better understand chemical systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\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 are known as\u0026nbsp;exascale\u0026nbsp;machines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese machines will have 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 CSE\u0026nbsp;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\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/suryanarayana-leads-new-3m-project-unlock-power-tomorrow-s-supercomputers-understanding\u0022\u003Edetails about the project are included in a story\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on the School of CEE website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Project aims to unlock power of next-gen supercomputers to explore chemistry."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2018-10-03 14:30:45","changed_gmt":"2018-10-03 14:30:45","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"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":""}}}