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How High-Performance Computing and AI Accelerated Applied Energy Research in 2025

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Kestrel Supercomputer Advanced More Than 500 Energy Modeling and Simulation Projects By Julia Medeiros Coad The National Laboratory of the Rockies’ (NLR’s) advanced computing capabilities continue to grow with the demands and complexities of applied energy research, with key upgrades to the laboratory’s Kestrel supercomputer supporting hundreds of projects with … [continued]

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New “Atlas” Will Catalog Proteins That Bind to Rare Earth Elements

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Bioprospecting Tool Could Boost Critical Mineral Refining By Anna Squires Throughout the 1800s, naturalists journeyed to far-flung corners of the world to catalog birds, mammals, minerals, and plants. Now, a team of U.S. researchers is assembling a catalog of their own: an atlas of naturally occurring proteins capable of binding … [continued]

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Could a New Kind of Power Supply Help Make Data Centers Grid-Friendly?

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Inside the First Data Center–Grid Simulator Built To Test the Promising New Technology As demand for data centers continues to rise, many center operators, utilities, and American communities are asking: Can the U.S. power grid handle these energy elephants? The answer depends on just how many elephants the country adopts. … [continued]

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World Models, Free Energy, and a Plastic Dinosaur

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In 2020, I wrote about a meter-high robotic, smart fabric wrapped Plastic Dinosaur that gained consciousness to explore machine learning. A series of articles on the core concepts of machine learning and neural nets, as they existed then, each started with a brief story about Plastic Dinosaur as it learned … [continued]

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