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Simulation Shuffles Protons and Electrons

Simulation Shuffles Protons and Electrons

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

Titan is allowing scientists to simulate proton-coupled electron transfer at a level that was previously impossible.
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Titan Simulates Earthquake Physics Necessary for Safer Building Design

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

To prepare California for the next “big one,” SCEC joint researchers are simulating earthquakes at high frequencies for more detailed predictions that are needed by structural engineers on Titan.
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OLCF Wins Big at Conference

By  •  9 years ago  •  People

The OLCF and industrial users Ford Motor Company and GE Global Research received 5 awards at SC13, the 25th meeting of the annual leading Supercomputing Conference.
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ORNL Intern Wins Best Abstract Award at Student Poster Session

By  •  9 years ago  •  People

Roisin Langan, an intern at ORNL, spent last summer developing climate models that are better able to predict the variability and extremes of precipitation.
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Researchers recruit Titan to study key molecular switch that controls cell behavior

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

Using computational molecular dynamics simulations, researchers at ORNL and the University of Tennessee–ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences have discovered a molecular “switch” in a receptor that controls cell behavior.
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Fast Friends
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Fast Friends

By  •  9 years ago  •  Industry

Partnership brings access to elite supercomputer for cutting-edge fire-protection efforts.
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Four OLCF Partners Win Major HPC Award
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Four OLCF Partners Win Major HPC Award

By  •  9 years ago  •  People

Four OLCF partners were named winners of IDC’s HPC Innovation Excellence Award for research done on the center’s supercomputing systems.
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Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility receives three HPCwire awards
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Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility receives three HPCwire awards

By  •  9 years ago  •  People

The OLCF earned three HPCwire awards in HPC for collaborative industrial research projects conducted at ORNL.
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INCITE grants awarded to 59 computational research projects
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INCITE grants awarded to 59 computational research projects

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced 59 projects for 2014, sharing nearly 6 billion core hours on two of America’s fastest supercomputers dedicated to open science.
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2013 Annual HPCwire Readers Choice Awards
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2013 Annual HPCwire Readers Choice Awards

By  •  9 years ago  •  Industry

GE Research using Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cray “Titan” for Industrial Cold Temperature Research Projects.
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OLCF Lends Expertise for Introducing GPU Accelerator Programming to Popular Linux GCC Compiler

By  •  9 years ago  •  Technology

The OLCF is working with Mentor Graphics, a leading electronic design automation company, to bring accelerated computing to a broader audience.
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Superconductor Simulation Tops 15 Petaflops on Titan
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Superconductor Simulation Tops 15 Petaflops on Titan

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

Researchers simulating high-temperature superconductors has topped 15 petaflops on ORNL’s Titan supercomputer. More importantly, they did it with an algorithm that substantially overcomes two major roadblocks to realistic superconductor modeling.
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Simulations of Plasma Turbulence Model the Inner Workings of Cosmic Phenomenon
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Simulations of Plasma Turbulence Model the Inner Workings of Cosmic Phenomenon

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

Scientists from Germany’s HZDR–Dresden used Titan, the most powerful supercomputer in the United States located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to simulate billions of particles in two passing plasma jet streams.
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High-Risk, High-Reward Simulations
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High-Risk, High-Reward Simulations

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

The OLCF delivered more than 374 million supercomputer core hours to 17 projects through the Department of Energy’s ALCC program—76 million hours more than expected.
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Peering into Cells One GPU at a Time
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Peering into Cells One GPU at a Time

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

A simulation of the internal workings of cells has reached a sustained performance of 20,000 trillion calculations per second, or 20 petaflops, on the Titan supercomputer at ORNL.
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Protecting Big Data

By  •  9 years ago  •  Technology

The OLCF recently relocated the center’s archive tape library to a centralized location with a more controlled environment, resulting in better overall availability and uptime for OLCF system users and better resiliency of the media.
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