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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
Frontier: the Direction of DiscoveryScience

Exascale Day 2021

On October 18, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is celebrating the third National Exascale Day. The holiday was created in 2019 as an initiative of DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, to honor scientists and researchers who will make…
Katie Bethea
October 18, 2021
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Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories Award Codeplay Software to Further Strengthen SYCL™ Support

LEMONT, IL, and OAK RIDGE, TN, and EDINBURGH, UK, June 17, 2021 - Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has awarded Codeplay a contract implementing the oneAPI DPC++ compiler, an implementation of the SYCL open standard software, to support AMD GPU-based high-performance compute (HPC) supercomputers.…
Katie Bethea
June 17, 2021
ATOMScience

Oak Ridge National Laboratory joins ATOM Consortium to Accelerate Drug Discovery

The Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine, or ATOM, consortium today announced the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge, Argonne and Brookhaven national laboratories are joining the consortium to further develop ATOM’s artificial intelligence, or AI-driven, drug discovery platform. The public-private ATOM consortium aims to transform drug discovery from a…
Katie Bethea
March 31, 2021
Data visualizationTechnology

VISTA: ORNL’s Visual Informatics for Science and Technology Advances Lab

The Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate is home to VISTA: ORNL's Visual Informatics for Science and Technology Advances (VISTA) Lab. The mission of VISTA is to improve domain experts’ ability to explore large and complex data through the development and application of interactive data visualization and analysis systems. By acting as a bridge connecting…
Katie Bethea
December 8, 2020
People

Gina Tourassi One of Six ORNL scientists elected fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Media contact: Karen K Dunlap, [email protected] Six scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS. The society is the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific body and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through the…
Katie Bethea
November 24, 2020
INCITE 2021Science

INCITE Program Awards Supercomputing Time to 51 Computational Research Projects

MEDIA CONTACTS: Brian Grabowski Argonne National Laboratory [email protected] 630-252-1232 Katie Bethea Oak Ridge National Laboratory [email protected] 865-576-8039 The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 51 high-impact computational science projects for 2021 through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment…
Katie Bethea
November 16, 2020
Frontier: the Direction of DiscoveryScience

Frontier: America’s Exascale Future

Exascale is the next level of computing performance. By solving calculations five times faster than today’s top supercomputers—exceeding a quintillion, or 1018, calculations per second—exascale systems will enable scientists to develop new technologies for energy, medicine, and materials. The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility will be home to one of…
Katie Bethea
October 12, 2020
Science

DOE and NCSA Supercomputing Speed Studies into Black Hole Origins

Five years ago this month, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, made its first detection of gravitational waves, marking a historic event in the astrophysics community. Since then, LIGO has reported more than 50 gravitational wave observations. Often generated by collisions of compact astrophysical objects—such as black holes or…
Katie Bethea
September 23, 2020
Science

Mining for COVID-19 Connections

Scientists have tapped the immense power of the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to comb through millions of medical journal articles to identify potential vaccines, drugs and effective measures that could suppress or stop the spread of COVID-19. A team comprising researchers from ORNL and Georgia Tech are…
Katie Bethea
May 18, 2020
Science

U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE Program Seeks Proposals for 2021

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now seeking proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. From now until June 19, 2020, INCITE’s open call provides an opportunity for…
Katie Bethea
April 15, 2020
Science

Summit Joins the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and the Summit supercomputer have joined forces with other U.S. Federal agencies, industry, and academic leaders to provide access to the world’s most powerful high-performance computing resources in support of COVID-19 research through the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. The Consortium is a unique private-public…
Katie Bethea
March 30, 2020
Events

COVID-19: OLCF Continues Normal Operations

The OLCF is operating on a normal schedule but is implementing measures to maximize social distancing. Staff who can telecommute are doing so and visitors to the laboratory are being restricted. For information on the Laboratory’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, see the public home page, www.ornl.gov. In the meantime,…
Katie Bethea
March 18, 2020
Science

United States Continues To Lead World In Supercomputing

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the world’s TOP500 Supercomputers were unveiled, and once again asserted U.S. supremacy in supercomputing. The Summit machine at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory again ranked first in the world, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Sierra machine ranked second. In total, four of the ten fastest computers belong…
Katie Bethea
November 18, 2019
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Deep Learning Expands Study of Nuclear Waste Remediation

Contact: Kathy Kincade, [email protected], +1 510 495 2124 A research collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Brown University, and NVIDIA has achieved exaflop performance on the Summit supercomputer with a deep learning application used to model subsurface flow in the study of nuclear waste remediation.…
Katie Bethea
November 8, 2019
Science

Predicting Material Properties with Quantum Monte Carlo

Written by: Nils Heinonen, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Recent advances in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have the potential to revolutionize computational materials science, a discipline traditionally driven by density functional theory (DFT). While DFT—an approach that uses quantum-mechanical modeling to examine the electronic structure of complex systems—provides convenience to…
Katie Bethea
July 15, 2019