ORNL researchers are using Jaguar to simulate new desirable properties of graphene substrate.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 21, 2011
The OLCF cleared some room for next-generation machines on Tuesday, December 13, and simultaneously helped a partner.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 21, 2011
In this interview Rich Graham, group lead for the OLCF's Application Performance Tools Group, discusses the challenges presented by new hybrid computer architectures such as Titan’s.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 6, 2011
ORNL was once again a major player at high-performance computing’s (HPC’s) premier conference, SC11, which took place in Seattle, WA from November 12-18.
Scott JonesDecember 2, 2011
Jack Wells speaks at GE Technology Summit about government–industry collaborations Jack Wells, director of science for the National Center for Computational Sciences, participated in the General Electric (GE) Technology Summit to explore partnering opportunities between the company and America’s national laboratories. Hosted by GE Global Research with Battelle Memorial Institute…
Dawn LevyDecember 2, 2011
Using an application that took the 2009 Gordon Bell Prize as the world’s most advanced scientific computing application, a team led by ORNL’s Markus Eisenbach has been simulating the magnetic properties of promising materials, focusing in particular on the magnetocaloric effect. Its work is detailed in three recent papers in…
Leo WilliamsDecember 2, 2011
The future looks bright for the Lustre parallel file system. In August, OpenSFS and software developer Whamcloud agreed on key improvements to the open-source software system, resulting in a $2.1 million, multi-year contract.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 1, 2011
https://player.vimeo.com/video/31916134 The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded a contract to Cray Inc. to increase the Jaguar supercomputer’s science impact and energy efficiency. The upgrade, which will provide advanced capabilities in modeling and simulation, will transform the DOE Office of Science-supported Cray XT5 system, currently capable…
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 14, 2011
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Myricom, and Juniper Networks are demonstrating “wide-area” 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) between the ORNL and Juniper Networks booths at SC11, the premier international conference on high performance computing. ORNL operates the DOE Office of Science-supported Jaguar supercomputer, America’s fastest open-research system.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 14, 2011
Researchers from Purdue University, the University of Alabama–Huntsville, and Switzerland’s ETH Zurich are finalists for this year’s coveted ACM Gordon Bell Prize, thanks to a nanoscale simulation of electronic devices performed on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer.
Leo WilliamsNovember 11, 2011
Supercomputing efficiency shows nearly three-fold increase with new scheduling technique
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 10, 2011
Computation and experiment reveal how protein switching provides right tool for the job
Dawn LevyNovember 9, 2011
Office of Science awards almost 1.7 billion supercomputing hours via the INCITE program. Researchers in the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science are dedicated to passing on those gifts, especially through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 9, 2011
Once again, the Department of Energy’s premier supercomputing facility will have plenty to offer at SC11 in Seattle, Washington. Drop by the ORNL exhibit to see the latest in scientific visualizations, find out what’s new at the nation’s most powerful computing complex, or hear from a range of experts representing…
Scott JonesNovember 7, 2011
More than 100 participants from government, industry, and academia attended the 2011 Computational Sciences and Engineering conference to discuss strategies for optimizing high- performance computing resources used in advanced modeling and simulation of grand challenges in energy.
OLCF Staff WriterOctober 31, 2011
Scientists use Oak Ridge and Argonne supercomputers to gain insight into nuclear behavior The Vary team made predictions about the behavior of fluoride–14 and published its results in Physical Review C. The predictions (ab initio bars) nearly matched an experiment done 6 months later at Texas A&M’s Cyclotron Institute (experiment…
OLCF Staff WriterOctober 31, 2011
HPCwire interviewed Buddy Bland (OLCF) and Jim Hack (NCCS) about Titan and GPUs.
Dawn LevyOctober 17, 2011
GPU-accelerated system of at least 10 petaflops to provide exceptional scientific computing The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded a contract to Cray Inc. to increase the Jaguar supercomputer’s science impact and energy efficiency. The upgrade, which will provide advanced capabilities in modeling and simulation, will transform…
Dawn LevyOctober 11, 2011
Simulation provides a close-up look at the molecule that complicates next-generation biofuels Leadership-class molecular dynamics simulation of the plant components lignin and cellulose. This 3.3 million-atom simulation was performed on 30,000 cores of the Jaguar XT5 supercomputer and investigated lignin precipitation on cellulose fibrils, a process that poses a significant…
Leo WilliamsSeptember 12, 2011
