Oak Ridge

American  

noun

1. a city in E Tennessee, near Knoxville: atomic research center.

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Oak Ridge Cultural  

1. A city in Tennessee, where uranium for the atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb) was produced during World War II. Since that time, the government has maintained a variety of nuclear research facilities in Oak Ridge. (See also Manhattan Project.)

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Example Sentences

Continuing that tradition, Zhang and his colleagues were granted access to two of the world's most powerful supercomputers, Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Aurora at Argonne National Laboratory.

From Science Daily

It plans to use the $400 million cash-sharing grant to support development of reactors at a site called Clinch River, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

From Barron's

To come up with these analyses, MIT number crunchers, working with analysts and a supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, created a model of the entire U.S. jobs market — featuring “151 million workers across 923 occupations in 3,000 counties, covering more than 32,000 distinct skills” — alongside an analysis of the capabilities of 13,000 AI tools.

From MarketWatch

Additional computing resources were provided by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and by the Hyak supercomputer system at the University of Washington.

From Science Daily

Nvidia worked with more than a dozen different quantum companies, including IonQ, Quantinuum and Infleqtion, and a number of national labs, including Sandia National Laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Fermi Laboratory, on the effort.

From The Wall Street Journal