Titan is allowing scientists to simulate proton-coupled electron transfer at a level that was previously impossible.
Leo WilliamsDecember 16, 2013
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.
Scott JonesDecember 16, 2013
Roisin Langan, an intern at ORNL, spent last summer developing climate models that are better able to predict the variability and extremes of precipitation.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 14, 2013
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.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 13, 2013
Partnership brings access to elite supercomputer for cutting-edge fire-protection efforts.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 2, 2013
Four OLCF partners were named winners of IDC's HPC Innovation Excellence Award for research done on the center's supercomputing systems.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 20, 2013
The OLCF earned three HPCwire awards in HPC for collaborative industrial research projects conducted at ORNL.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 19, 2013
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.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 18, 2013
The OLCF is working with Mentor Graphics, a leading electronic design automation company, to bring accelerated computing to a broader audience.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 14, 2013
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.
Leo WilliamsNovember 12, 2013
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.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 11, 2013
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.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 6, 2013
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.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 6, 2013
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.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 6, 2013
Researchers are using DOE’s most powerful computing systems, including the nation’s top-ranked machine, ORNL's Titan, to simulate the evolution of the universe as it expands across billions of years.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 5, 2013
Two new computing resources are being installed at the OLCF to enhance the user experience and maximize project outputs.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 1, 2013
The OLCF’s James Hack and Ashley Barker will be honored at ORNL’s annual Awards Night in November.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 1, 2013
Supercomputing experts from around the world used a recent meeting in the Tennessee Smokies to grapple with the challenges of “big data.”
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 1, 2013
General Electric Global Research is using the hybrid CPU/GPU Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer managed by the OLCF to simulate hundreds of millions of water molecules freezing in slow motion.
OLCF Staff WriterOctober 25, 2013
