About the Joule 2.0 Supercomputer
The Joule 2.0 Supercomputer is up and running at the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Morgantown, West Virginia. One of the world’s fastest, most energy-efficient supercomputers, it is intended to help energy researchers discover new materials, optimize designs, and better predict operational characteristics. Housed at NETL’s Simulation-Based Engineering User Center, the supercomputer is a 5.7 PFlops (one quadrillion floating-point operations per second) computer that enables the simulation of phenomena that are difficult or impossible to measure, such as coal jet penetration into a gasifier. With capabilities for running modelling tools…
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Simulation Based Engineering at NETL
By Dr. Cynthia Powell I magine being able to design and optimize an entire fossil-fuel power plant, from fuel processing, through energy conversion, to power distribution, and to include the integration of pollution control devices to assure near-zero emissions,...
Simulations of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit on NETL’s Joule Supercomputer Support the Idaho Cleanup Project
There are approximately one million gallons of radioactive sodium-bearing liquid waste being stored at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. To reduce the environmental footprint, the Department of Energy has...