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ORNL delivered Frontier to advance leadership-class computing for open science. Frontier enables us to address, with greater complexity and higher fidelity, questions concerning who we are, as well as our place on earth and in the universe. </p> <p>CCSD contains the institutional knowledge needed to transform basic science into cutting-edge energy and security applications critical to national interests. Our organization is committed to research and development in the <a href="https://www.ornl.gov/node/96257">data sciences</a>, including the modeling, simulation, and analysis of rapidly growing data sources. </p> <p>ORNL also has a rich tradition of artificial intelligence (AI) research dating back more than four decades and garnering more than ten patents. The laboratory's <a href="https://www.ornl.gov/ai-initiative">AI Initiative</a> is dedicated to ensuring safe, trustworthy, and energy efficient AI in the service of scientific research and national security. 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