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Eric Gedenk

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Titan Targets Tumors

Researchers at the German research laboratory Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf are using Titan to understand and control new methods for particle acceleration that could have big impacts on laser-driven tumor removal.
Eric Gedenk
January 26, 2016
People

BigNeuron Hackathon Branches Out at OLCF

To consolidate the knowledge base surrounding computationally modeling neurons, researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and ORNL organized the first BigNeuron Data Analytics and Visualization Hackathon, which took place November 16–20 at ORNL.
Eric Gedenk
January 5, 2016
Science

Flowing Toward Red Blood Cell Breakthroughs

A team of researchers from Brown University and ETH Zurich the Universita da Svizzera Italiana and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche is using America’s largest, most powerful supercomputer to help understand and fight diseases affecting some of the body’s smallest building blocks.
Eric Gedenk
October 13, 2015
Technology

On the Road to Summit

Following the Summit announcement, OLCF staff have been making infrastructure changes to accommodate Summit. The OLCF has already hit several major milestones on the way to building Summit.
Eric Gedenk
September 29, 2015
Technology

New DDNTool Streamlines OLCF File System Monitoring

By importing DDNTool’s data onto Splunk, a commercial software package for data mining, OLCF staff can quickly identify possible performance issues with users’ codes. Upgrades allow staff to monitor hardware failures and performance data in real-time Staff members at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)…
Eric Gedenk
September 9, 2015
Science

Mastering Magnetic Reconnection

For 5 years a team led by William Daughton of Los Alamos National Laboratory has been simulating magnetic reconnection in space using the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer and its predecessor, the Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer. The team’s simulations support the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission.
Eric Gedenk
June 16, 2015