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Rachel McDowell

(She/Her)
Knoxville
As seen in: Phys.org, OAK Ridge National Laboratory, Medical Xpress, Tech Xplore, HPCwire, Manufacturing.net, The Oak Ridger, Oak Ridge Today
Covers:  health, synthetic data, bioinformatics, data analytics, health economic and outcomes research, real-world evidence, real-world data
Doesn't Cover: business, anthropology, economics, philosophy, music, theatre, political science, sociology
Copywriter at MDClone (@MDClone_).

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I'm a copywriter at MDClone (@MDClone_), writing copy for web and print, including blog posts, press releases, eBooks, and more. Views are my own.

Rachel McDowell’s Journalist Portfolio

Closing In on Fusion

Closing In on Fusion

The same process that fuels stars could one day be used to generate massive amounts of power here on Earth. N…

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Supercomputers Support Nobel Prize-Winning Research

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Supercomputers Support Nobel Prize-Winning Research

In October, a scientist whose research was supported by modeling and simulation efforts on supercomputers at …

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Computational Gene Study Suggests New Pathway for COVID-19 Inflammatory Response

Computational Gene Study Suggests New Pathway for COVID-19 Inflammatory Response

Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation's fastest supercomputer point to …

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ORNL Team Enlists World's Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus

ORNL Team Enlists World's Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used the world…

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Energy Secretary Rick Perry Attends ORNL Debut of Summit Supercomputer

Energy Secretary Rick Perry Attends ORNL Debut of Summit Supercomputer

The US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) launched the IBM AC922 Summit, the…

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The OLCF’s Matt Sieger Selected to Lead OLCF-6

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By Rachel McDowell, Coury Turczyn Verified
| OAK Ridge National Laboratory
As project director, Sieger will oversee a huge team effort to establish the OLCF’s next world-class supercomputer by Rachel McDowell The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Matt Sieger has been named the project director for the OLCF-6 effort. This next OLCF undertaking will plan and build a world-class successor to the OLCF’s still-new exascale system, Frontier.
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Pioneering Frontier: Navigating a New Era

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By Rachel McDowell
| OAK Ridge National Laboratory
The OLCF’s Justin Whitt has directed the trailblazing Frontier supercomputer project since 2017 The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented ORNL employees behind the construction and operation of the OLCF’s exascale supercomputer, Frontier. The HPE Cray system will be available to users later this year.
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Forging Ahead with Frontier: Ready to Crush Science

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By Rachel McDowell
| OAK Ridge National Laboratory
Principal scientific codes are up and running on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s testbed system, Crusher, part of the Frontier system Computational users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) are running scientific codes on Frontier’s architecture in the form of a powerful test system at the OLCF called Crusher.
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What tools and software do you use to do your job?

WordPress, MS Word, MS Excel, Adobe Photoshop, MS Teams, Tweetdeck, Facebook Business, Mailchimp

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Facebook

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

One of the stories I am most proud of is titled "Computational Gene Study Suggests New Pathway for COVID-19 Inflammatory Response."

Awards

Blakely Award of Excellence in Science Writing

2015 - Science Writing

The Blakely Awards competition is held annually by the Society for Technical Communication East TN Chapter to recognize student excellence in technical and scientific communication. ​