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Katie Bethea

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Uniting to Build Solutions

Two ORNL-led computing teams were recognized with Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Awards, presented by Secretary Jennifer Granholm on January 8, 2025, at the DOE Forrestal building. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm delivered the Secretary’s Honor Awards on January 8, 2025. Credit: Donica Payne, DOE “The dedicated teams we are…
Katie Bethea
January 17, 2025
FeaturedTechnology

DOE’s Quantum Computing User Program releases Request for Information to Gather Input on Quantum Computing Access

The Department of Energy’s Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, or OLCF, enables scientific discovery and technological innovation by providing a diverse community of scientific researchers access to quantum computing resources. This competitive merit-based access program partners with quantum computing vendors to provide…
Katie Bethea
November 15, 2024
Featured

2024 Notable System Changes: Summit and HPSS

HPSS Decommission and Kronos Availability After decades in service and having served hundreds of users that have archived over 160 petabytes, HPSS is reaching end of its life and will be decommissioned early in 2025. Please pay attention to the following key dates as you migrate workloads from the center’s…
Katie Bethea
August 22, 2024
Featured

DOE Opens Bids to Construct ORNL’s Next-Generation Supercomputer

The Department of Energy released a request for proposals today to advance its leadership in high-performance computing, inviting vendors to submit their plans for a successor to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s exascale (a quintillion or more calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier. The future system, to be called Discovery, will be…
Katie Bethea
July 19, 2024
INCITEScience

INCITE 2025 Call for Proposals

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research projects in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. Proposals must be submitted between April 10 and June 14, 2024. The…
Katie Bethea
April 10, 2024
IndustryScience

Exascale Drives Industry Innovation for a Better Future

By Caryn Meissner, ECP contributing writer   Outside the high-performance computing, or HPC, community, exascale may seem more like fodder for science fiction than a powerful tool for scientific research. Yet, when seen through the lens of real-world applications, exascale computing goes from ethereal concept to tangible reality with exceptional…
Katie Bethea
August 31, 2023
IndustryScience

GE Aerospace Runs One of the world’s Largest Supercomputer Simulations to Test Revolutionary New Open Fan Engine Architecture

GE Aerospace is first business to use the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier supercomputer, the world’s fastest supercomputer Frontier can process billions upon billions of operations per second GE-developed models being used to study performance of open fan engine architecture for next-generation commercial aircraft engines These…
Katie Bethea
June 17, 2023
INCITEScience

U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE Program Seeks Proposals for 2024 to Advance Science and Engineering at U.S. Leadership Computing Facilities

Katie Bethea Oak Ridge National Laboratory, [email protected] Beth Cerny Argonne National Laboratory, [email protected]   The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer…
Katie Bethea
April 10, 2023
Science

INCITE program awards supercomputing time to 56 projects to accelerate science and engineering research

MEDIA CONTACTS: Julie Parente Argonne National Laboratory, [email protected] Katie Bethea Oak Ridge National Laboratory, [email protected] The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 56 high-impact computational science projects for 2023 through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.…
Katie Bethea
November 14, 2022
INCITE 2021Science

U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE program seeks proposals for 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is seeking proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. The deadline to apply is June 17, 2022. INCITE’s open call provides an…
Katie Bethea
April 28, 2022
David GrantTechnology

Podcast: Guiding the Design and Construction of the Mechanical Systems

The Exascale Computing Project's Let's Talk Exascale Podcast kicked off a series on Frontier, the nation’s first exascale supercomputer. In the second episode, David Grant, the high-performance computing lead engineer in ORNL’s Laboratory Modernization Division, spoke with Scott Gibson. David is responsible for ensuring every new supercomputer system that’s installed…
Katie Bethea
November 2, 2021