Florida A&M research team advances renewable energy studies Using ACCESS supercomputers
In California, HPC Wire reported that a team of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) researchers recently utilized ACCESS allocations on Stampede2 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and Expanse at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego to model reactions on catalyst surfaces that have the possibility of producing renewable and clean energy and fuels.
The report noted that the findings of the research were recently published in a Physical Chemistry – Chemistry Physics Journal paper entitled Density Functional Theory Study of Bulk Properties of Transition Metal Nitrides.
“ACCESS allocations allowed us to use supercomputers to model complex chemical processes otherwise not possible as we don’t have access to these high-performance machines on our campus,” Assistant Professor of Physics Shyam Kattel said. “Stampede2 and Expanse gave us the power to gain atomic-level insight into how materials work and how chemical bonds are formed and broken – and share that with our students and postdoctorate researcher.”
“Our work on ACCESS supercomputers at TACC and SDSC is not just a theoretical pursuit but a practical and impactful endeavor that can pave the way for a sustainable and greener energy economy, benefiting society and the planet as a whole,” said Kattel.
