2 months ago
Summit Early Science Program Starting Soon
The OLCF has now completed acceptance testing on the new Summit supercomputer and will begin ramping up the Summit Early Science Program over the next few weeks. Most immediately we …
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2 months ago
Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Share 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Two US Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories were recently awarded the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Gordon Bell Prize for work done on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing …
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2 months ago
Two DOE Supercomputers Top List of World’s Fastest
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories are now home to the fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the new TOP500 List, a semiannual ranking …
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3 months ago
Surprise finding: Discovering a previously unknown role for a source of magnetic fields
By John Greenwald, PPPL
Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called the Biermann battery …
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3 months ago
Research Team Breaks Exaop Barrier With Deep Learning Application
This article is part of a series covering the finalists for the 2018 Gordon Bell Prize that used the Summit supercomputer. The prize winner will be announced at SC18 in …
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3 months ago
Simple Summit
Two high school seniors from L&N STEM Academy in Knoxville spent the summer of 2018 at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developing Simple Summit, …
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6 months ago
US Air Force and ORNL Partner in High Performance Computing and Weather Modeling System
For the US military, accurate weather prediction is vital to both the planning and execution of worldwide missions. To extend its weather modeling capabilities, the US Air Force has joined …
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11 months ago
Frontier: OLCF’S Exascale Future
Frontier is the OLCF’s 2021 exascale computer, with full user availability expected in 2022. The system will support a wide range of scientific applications for advanced modeling and simulation and …
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11 months ago
Summit at GTC 2018
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) staff members and users are presenting at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in March with a Summit-focused session in preparation for the launch …
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1 year ago
OLCF Team ‘Connects’ with the High-Performance Computing Community at SC17
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL, played a key role …
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