A team from the OLCF accompanied Tiny Titan to Washington D.C. on September for the inaugural National Lab Day on the Hill.
OLCF Staff WriterOctober 14, 2014
The 8-week HPC Fundamentals course covered topics such as the role of HPC in science today, an introduction to UNIX/LINUX, and programming in Fortran.
Christie ThiessenSeptember 16, 2014
Balint Joo, from Jefferson Lab, is the chair of OLCF's new user group and executive board. Mike Zingale from Stony Brook University is the vice chair.
Jeff GarySeptember 16, 2014
Consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) has turned to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and America’s fastest supercomputer to simulate microscopic processes that can threaten product performance and stability.
Dawn LevyAugust 25, 2014
Of particular importance to Bhattacharjee’s team is reconnection and shocks in systems where the plasma particles do not collide very often, both of which can serve as mechanisms for cosmic ray acceleration.
Scott JonesAugust 20, 2014
When the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility replaced its Jaguar supercomputer with Titan, not only did it expand its computing speed tenfold, it also saved on the electric bill.
Jeff GaryAugust 20, 2014
One hundred four Titan users gathered at the Oak Ridge campus last month for the Annual Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) user meeting.
Christie ThiessenAugust 20, 2014
DOE’s CSGF awards 4-year fellowships to graduate students in science and engineering fields that use high-performance computing (HPC) to solve complex problems.
Christie ThiessenAugust 20, 2014
A team of computational and climate scientists are scaling the CESM model to run on DOE petascale computers, including Titan, the 27-petaflop Cray XK7 system managed by the OLCF at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Katie Elyce JonesJuly 23, 2014
A group of graduate students from the University of Tennessee has the unique opportunity to perform research on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan.
OLCF Staff WriterJuly 23, 2014
The Joint Facilities User Forum on Data-Intensive Computing brought together users and HPC center staff to discuss approaches to handling data, best practices, and the future of data-driven scientific discovery.
Jeff GaryJuly 23, 2014
The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University hosted its annual Oil and Gas HPC Workshop in Houston, Texas.
Scott JonesJuly 23, 2014
A team representing Westinghouse Electric Company and the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light-Water Reactors (CASL), a Department of Energy (DOE) Innovation Hub led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has received an International Data Corporation HPC Innovation Excellence Award for applied simulation on Titan.
Katie Elyce JonesJuly 2, 2014
The OLCF’s Jack Wells was an invited speaker at the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS’s) Exascale Radio Astronomy conference from March 30 to April 4 in Monterrey, CA, where he detailed recent advances in computational astrophysics on Department of Energy supercomputing systems such as Titan.
Scott JonesJune 30, 2014
This year’s March Meeting of the American Physical Society featured a focus session on computational materials research proposed and led by ORNL's Jack Wells.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 30, 2014
Three industry-related visualizations, created at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, were highlighted at the fourth annual National User Facility Organization (NUFO) science expo and reception.
Jeff GaryJune 30, 2014
Ramgen Power Systems is using the Titan supercomputer managed by the OLCF to optimize novel designs based on aerospace shock wave compression technology for gas compression systems, such as carbon dioxide compressors.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 13, 2014
To increase efficiency and enhance nuclear safety, a team led by Igor Bolotnov of North Carolina State University has turned to Titan to perform state-of-the-art direct numerical simulation (DNS) to characterize such turbulent bubbly flows.
Scott JonesJune 2, 2014
The Bio-IT conference, which took place from April 29 to May 1, hosted more than 2,500 participants from the life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and IT industries representing more than 30 countries.
Scott JonesJune 2, 2014
