When the next generation of high performance computing comes to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UT’s physicists will be working on the first projects that put its power to work. Summit, the third in the evolution of ORNL’s supercomputers, is set to come online in 2017. Descended from Jaguar and most recently Titan, it will ramp up the current performance level by at least a factor of five. Late in 2014 the Center for Acceleration Application Readiness (CAAR) program at the national lab invited research teams to submit proposals to make the most effective use of this new system. Plans had to include a three-year readiness phase for coding and porting and culminate in a scientific grand-challenge project when Summit becomes available to users in 2018. This spring CAAR selected 13 initial partnership projects to showcase Summit’s prowess, and among them are ventures into long-standing questions in nuclear physics and astrophysics, both of which involve UT-affiliated faculty. To read more, please visit http://www.phys.utk.edu/news/2015/news-05202015-summit.html.