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Portrait E Wes Bethel David Brown, AMCR division director Jeff Broughton stands by the Edison supercomputer that he helped bring to NERSC, one of his proudest accomplishments during a long career. A firefighter uses a drip torch to ignite a prescribed fire. This type of wildland fire is used to reduce the buildup of materials that fuel wildfires. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy) The NSTX-U is a nearly spherical, toroidal tokamak, meaning its outer shell is nearly perfectly round, and the inside is shaped like a donut. A 2018 summer researcher presents a poster to Berkeley Lab Scientist John Wu. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) Yosep Kim Installing Two representations show the algorithm's effectiveness at predicting force fields for 54 elements across the periodic table. Simulated storm tracks that match observed named storms and ensemble average accumulated rainfall in inches for the 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season (June 1 to November 30) for the (b,d) actual and (a,c) counterfactual ensembles. (Credit: Kevin Reed, Stony Brook University) In their search for the axion particle, scientists focus their simulations on axion strings, topological defects in the soup of the early universe. Here, an axion string is rendered as a dark blue loop emitting axions. (Credit: Malte Buschmann, Princeton University)
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