Posts By Eric Gedenk

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) are constantly trying to …
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Team’s improved models could benefit carbon sequestration, contaminant transport, and oil recovery research
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In August, two new employees joined the management team of the OLCF.
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Multi-organization project uses tree growth algorithm to simulate metal oxide cluster behavior 

Postdoctoral researcher Mingyang Chen earned his doctoral degree at the University of Alabama, working closely with …
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Researchers at the OLCF are working to speed up the process of data transfer using a new tool.
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CASL staff created the annual Education Council Summer Student Workshop, which took place at ORNL June 17–19.
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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.
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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.
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Researchers are using OLCF’s Titan supercomputer to try to get closer to producing sustainable fusion for electricity.
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OLCF staff have invested heavily in making sure users can access data quickly while also taking steps to keep data safe.
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The OLCF’s RAIT system allows incoming data to be striped across four tapes, but it also has an extra tape—called a parity tape—that can allow the data to be reconstructed in the event that a tape is damaged or lost.
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OLCF staff members had a strong presence at one of the world’s premier high-performance computing conferences, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), hosted by NVIDIA March 17–20
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In the spirit of saving energy, the OLCF brought in an engineering team to evaluate how existing supercomputers could be cooled more efficiently.
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A group of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory explored the biological functions of microbial communities with high-performance computing.
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A group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to better understand the complex interactions that enable superconductivity and needed one of the world’s fastest supercomputers to help them.
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Staff at ORNL saw a need for more efficient systems testing; through a collaboration of groups at the OLCF, they were able to build a state-of-the-art test harness.

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