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Cincinnati,
OH, Sept. 8, 2009 - The Department of Energy, established in 1977, has
grown to include twenty-one labs and technology centers where more than
30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research. Now,
more and more of the national laboratories are relying on NoMachine NX
to provide remote access to their computing clusters and scientific
tools at their world-class facilities. The
Department of Energy's largest science and energy lab, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (ORNL), employs a staff of more than 4,300 and
annually hosts approximately 3,000 guest researchers. NoMachine NX
provides groups of ORNL employees, guest researchers and students from
around the world remote access from off-site or home to Linux
applications stored centrally on the NX Servers to perform heavy
engineering analysis more efficiently. This
analysis requires working with 3D images and NX's support of open GL
allows researchers to visualize complex graphic results. Extensive
analysis runs for days or weeks and can be easily monitored and edited
with the suspend and resume feature of NX. System Administrator James
Freels said, “NX plays a major communication role in the analysis
process at ORNL allowing researchers to work in real-time from any
location, while providing the security we demand with SSH encryption.” The
nation's first national laboratory and one of the leading federally
funded research and development centers in the country, Argonne
National Laboratory, supports manifold research projects. Argonne works
with hundreds of companies, federal agencies, universities and other
organizations. To support these networks, NX provides worldwide users
with dependable, multi-platform, remote access to engineering
simulation software on a centralized computing cluster. In
addition to the computing cluster, certain beamlines at the Advanced
Photon Source at Argonne and the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory are also accessed remotely to run beamline
control software for data collection, reducing travel costs by allowing
research to be conducted from anywhere. The Spallation Neutron Source Facility at ORNL also uses NX to provide remote access to their instrument beamlines. NX
also provides remote access to select beamlines at the National
Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The
Macromolecular Crystallography Research Resource at Brookhaven is using
NoMachine's NX Web Companion as well to provide users with links within
their project management system to pre-configured NX sessions. Systems
Analyst Matt Cowan said, “NX Web Companion eliminates the steps of
downloading, installing and configuring, allowing users to dive right
into their session without any delay.” The
national laboratories were created to solve scientific problems that
require world-class facilities and resources beyond the capability of
most universities and private industry. NoMachine NX currently provides
remote access to a large number of these facilities and resources at
the national laboratories in the Department of Energy. With NX, these
valuable resources are made easily and readily available for
researchers, scientists and students at geographically dispersed
locations around the world. About NoMachine
Based
in Rome, Italy, NoMachine is the creator of award-winning NX software,
an enterprise-class solution for secure remote access, application
delivery, and hosted desktop deployment. Since 2001, NoMachine's
mission has been to revolutionize the way users access their computing
resources across the Internet to make seamless desktop access as easy
and widespread as Web browsing. NoMachine provides a comprehensive
software infrastructure stack, core development, and support services
built around the self-designed and self-developed NX suite of advanced
components. For more information about NoMachine NX technology visit
http://www.nomachine.com.
About DOE National Laboratories
The
Department of Energy's overarching mission is to advance the national,
economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote
scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and
to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons
complex. The Department of Energy's largest science and energy lab, Oak
Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a multi-program science and
technology lab. Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S.
Department of Energy's oldest and largest national laboratories for
science and engineering research. Brookhaven is a multi-program
national laboratory operated by Brookhaven Science Associates for the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Berkeley Lab is a member of the
national laboratory system supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
through its Office of Science.
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