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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of eastern Tennessee west of Knoxville. Established during World War II as a national research facility, it played a major role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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Though the map was quite new and a war map, the name Oak Ridge was not there.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Number four on the Top 500 is another Cray Opteron cluster called "Kracken" that is sitting at Oak Ridge, which is owned by the University of Tennessee but operated by the US Department of Energy.
Channel Register 2010
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The downside is the divide marginalizes historical landmarks, such as Oak Ridge's record streak of nine consecutive girls team titles.
SplicedFeed 2010
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The downside is the divide marginalizes historical landmarks, such as Oak Ridge's record streak of nine consecutive girls team titles.
SplicedFeed 2010
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As an Energy Department official in the Clinton administration, Michaels, now a top professor of public health at George Washington University in D.C., "was chief architect" of the program that aids the former nuclear weapon complex workers who have become seriously ill due to radiation or beryllium exposure at sites such as Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
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As an Energy Department official in the Clinton administration, Michaels, now a top professor of public health at George Washington University in D.C., "was chief architect" of the program that aids the former nuclear weapon complex workers who have become seriously ill due to radiation or beryllium exposure at sites such as Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
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He did a lot to change the way things are done in America, says Amanda Jenkins, 27, a customer-service representative from Oak Ridge, Tenn., who is white.
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The system, expected to be more powerful than the world's current top supercomputers from Japan and China, is being designed by a U.S. Department of Energy computing facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
U.S. Plans Supercomputer Push Shara Tibken 2011
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China's Tianhe-1A system was leapfrogged earlier this year by a system in Japan developed by Fujitsu Ltd., which uses chips based on a design called Sparc that was pioneered by Sun Microsystems Inc. The No. 3 machine, dubbed Jaguar, was built by Cray Inc. for Oak Ridge and uses microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
China Supercomputer Uses Homegrown Chips Don Clark 2011
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There are five U.S. supercomputers in the top 10 ranking, including the third-ranked system called Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Japanese Supercomputer Claims World's Top Spot Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011
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