The OLCF recently held a “Crash Course in Supercomputing” for approximately 60 summer interns to provide an overview of concepts and techniques in high-performance computing.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 29, 2011
OLCF researchers a part of team recognized for work on software package A team led by ORNL’s Robert Harrison has been awarded an R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine. The team’s award stems from the development of the Multiresolution Adaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulations, or MADNESS, submitted and developed…
Scott JonesJune 29, 2011
Mike Henderson, CEO of BMI Corporation and Smart Truck, was announced as one of nine winners of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, given to organizations achieving an important, quantifiable achievement with the help of high-performance computing.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 29, 2011
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) hasannounced that Jack Wells will take over as the organization’s new Director of Science effective July 1, 2011.
Scott JonesJune 16, 2011
The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded OLCF staff members James Rogers and Bobby Whitten with Outstanding Mentor Awards.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 16, 2011
Members of the OLCF staff joined high-performance computing professionals from around the U.S. for the 2011 Cray User Group (CUG) meeting held in Fairbanks, AK, May 23-26.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 16, 2011
Discovery boosts supercapacitor energy storage Computational modeling of carbon supercapacitors with the effects of surface curvature included.—Image credit: Jingsong Huang, ORNL Flat is in the eye of the beholder. When you’re talking about nanomaterials, however, that eye is pretty much useless unless it’s looking through an electron microscope or at…
Leo WilliamsJune 16, 2011
Calculations on the Jaguar supercomputer reveal metal binding likely to misfold alpha-synuclein Alpha-synuclein, a protein that misfolds in Parkinson's disease, is shown in its free state (top) and bound to copper (bottom). Copper binding, detailed in the boxed area, accelerates the protein's misfolding. Image credit: Frisco Rose, Miroslav Hodak, and…
OLCF Staff WriterJune 14, 2011
Jaguar helps allow BMI to complete the modeling phase of the Smart Truck project approximately ten times faster than otherwise possible.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 6, 2011
