Intra-Lab Collaboration Automates OLCF Publication Tracking System with Cobra Tool

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Intra-Lab Collaboration Automates OLCF Publication Tracking System with Cobra Tool

In 2012, a team led by ORNL’s Ramie Wilkerson began establishing a process to discover and archive publications more efficiently in collaboration with OLCF leadership and ORNL’s Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate data analytics experts.

Eric GedenkMarch 29, 2016

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Illuminating the Universe’s Ignition

A multi-institution team has been using Titan to create the largest fully-coupled simulation of the universe's Epoch of Reionization.

Eric GedenkMarch 8, 2016

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Staff Report Successes, Lessons from Titan-Era Early Applications

OLCF staff recently published a paper highlighting the lessons learned from the Titan-era CAAR initiative.

Eric GedenkFebruary 16, 2016

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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 GedenkJanuary 26, 2016

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Fighting Fire with FireFOAM

Researchers at insurance company FM Global are using Titan to try and better understand fire growth and suppression.

Eric GedenkJanuary 5, 2016

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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 GedenkJanuary 5, 2016

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INCITE Grants Awarded to 56 Computational Research Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced 56 projects aimed at accelerating discovery and innovation to address some of the world’s most challenging scientific questions.

Eric GedenkNovember 16, 2015

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OLCF’s Straatsma Educates Graduate Students in Summer School Program

OLCF scientific computing group leader Tjerk Straatsma traveled to the Netherlands in September to serve as an instructor for the European Master in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling program, which offers an international intensive summer school for students.

Eric GedenkNovember 10, 2015

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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 GedenkOctober 13, 2015

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Nanoelectronics Researchers Employ Titan for an Electrifying Simulation Speedup

A team, led by ETH Zurich's Mathieu Luisier is using Titan to simulate and better understand nanoscale components such as transistors or battery electrodes.

Eric GedenkOctober 13, 2015

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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 GedenkSeptember 29, 2015

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Joins DOE’s New HPC for Manufacturing Program

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is collaborating with Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories to lead a new US Department of Energy program designed to fund and foster public-private R&D projects that enhance US competitiveness in clean energy manufacturing.

Eric GedenkSeptember 22, 2015

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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 GedenkSeptember 9, 2015

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Researchers Mine Information from Next-Generation Subsurface Flow Simulations

Team’s improved models could benefit carbon sequestration, contaminant transport, and oil recovery research

Eric GedenkSeptember 9, 2015

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OLCF Welcomes Whitt, McNally into Leadership Roles

In August, two new employees joined the management team of the OLCF.

Eric GedenkAugust 18, 2015

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OLCF Postdoc Collaborates with Researchers to Simulate Magnesium Carbonate

Bottom: (MgO)8 cluster reacting with eight molecular equivalents of CO2 to form an (MgCO3)8 cluster. Top mid: Graphical description for the TG-HGA method. A: calculated pair distribution function vs. radius plot for (MgO)8. B: calculated infrared spectrum for (MgO)8. C: pair distribution function vs. radius plot for (MgCO3)8. D: calculated…

Eric GedenkJuly 28, 2015

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Science DMZ Set to Expedite Data In and Out of ORNL

Researchers at the OLCF are working to speed up the process of data transfer using a new tool.

Eric GedenkJuly 7, 2015

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Students Study Computational Nuclear Reactor Modeling at CASL Summer Workshop

CASL staff created the annual Education Council Summer Student Workshop, which took place at ORNL June 17–19.

Eric GedenkJuly 7, 2015

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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 GedenkJune 16, 2015

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OLCF Helps Lead Cray User Group Conference

OLCF staff members Veronica Vergara Larrea, Chris Fuson, and Wayne Joubert won an award for best paper at the 2015 Cray User Group Conference last month in Chicago.

Eric GedenkMay 21, 2015

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