Micro Motors
With the help of ACCESS resource Expanse, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign have been studying how to create some of the tiniest motors ever invented with inspiration from biological systems like DNA.
Computing
Metrics – More Than Numbers
The ACCESS Metrics team shares insight into its first year’s progress.
6/14/2023
Expanse Helps to Accelerate Materials Discovery Process – and maybe a Student’s Career
Some scientists have recently studied perovskites because of their material properties that can be used in things such as solar cells. A team of researchers from Ames National Laboratory and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich – along with a talented undergraduate – used the powerful HPC resource at the San Diego Supercomputer Center for their study.
6/08/2023
Researchers Use Expanse to Explore Causes of Friction
Engineering scholars from Johns Hopkins University used Expanse at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego to create simulations to model the friction between two rough surfaces coated with fatty acids.
6/06/2023
ACCESS Allocations Onboards Over 1,000 Researchers in Seven Months
The ACCESS Allocations team shares facts and figures illustrating a successful first year of the program.
5/31/2023
Supercomputer Simulations Explain Life-Critical Protein in the Brain
A team of computational chemists from Carnegie Mellon University ran simulations on an Anton 2 supercomputer and the Bridges-2 system at PSC to reveal insights about a protein that plays a role in epileptic seizures.
5/23/2023
Introducing New ACCESS-allocated Resource Integration Options
The ACCESS Integration Roadmaps Working Group is announcing three new resource integration options for ACCESS resource providers.
5/09/2023
Landscape Metaphors Unearth Insights into the Evolution of World Religions
A team from Carnegie Mellon University and the Santa Fe Institute compared data from more than 400 world religions in a unique way by applying landscape metaphors – peaks and valleys – to examine functional patterns of worship and belief. Their approach using the Bridges-2 system revealed how some religions persist or change and others die out.
4/26/2023
Safe and Secure with CILogon
With CILogon, you only need one password for all your cyberinfrastructure needs. It’s that simple.
4/19/2023
Computational Biology Studies Move Researchers Closer to Treating Rare Form of Alzheimer’s Disease
University of Kansas researchers who study a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease used Expanse at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego to conduct studies on how mutations of a critical protein enzyme could be treated to better control thought, language and memory.
4/12/2023