The Workshop will feature tours of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The facilities to be featured are as follows.
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2004 with the mission of accelerating scientific discovery and engineering progress, by providing outstanding computing and data management systems. The computational resources in this facility include Titan, the most powerful science supercomputer in the U.S. and the first major supercomputing system to utilize a hybrid architecture, which combines conventional CPUs and GPU accelerators. ORNL's supercomputing program delivers today some of the most powerful systems in the world, and it has helped researchers to achieve practical breakthroughs and new scientific knowledge in climate, materials, nuclear science, and a wide range of other disciplines.
Website: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov
Graphite Reactor
In the early, desperate days of World War II, the United States launched the top-secret, top-priority Manhattan Project. The plan was to create two atomic weapons--one fueld by plutonium, the other by enriched uranium. The Graphite Reactor was designed for the pilot-scale production of plutonium to show that plutonium could be extracted from irradiated uranium slugs, and its first major challenge was to produce a self-sustaining chain reaction. During the 20 years the Graphite Reactor operated--from 1943 to 1963--it continued its pioneering role. It produced the first electricity from nuclear energy and it was the first reactor used to study the nature of matter and the health hazards of radioactivity. For years after the war, it was the world's foremost source of radioisotopes for medicine, agriculture, industry, and other purposes.
Website: http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/news/communications/graphite-reactor
Spallation Neutron Source
The Spallation Neutron Source is a one-of-a-kind research facility that provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development. It produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers short (microsecond) proton pulses to a target/moderator system, where neutrons are produced by a process called spallation. State-of-the-art experiment stations provide a variety of capabilities for researchers across a broad range of disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology.
Website: http://neutrons.ornl.gov/sns