The OLCF is proud to announce the addition of T.P. Straatsma as its new Scientific Computing Group Leader.
Scott JonesJune 6, 2013
With the assistance of OLCF staff, Allinea was able to customize its large-scale debugger to Titan’s hybrid architecture, enabling the supercomputer’s first users to easily scale to large portions of the machine and assisting the OLCF during Titan’s critical acceptance phase.
Scott JonesFebruary 27, 2013
A team of researchers ran transient, or continuous, simulations on an ORNL supercomputer over three years to create the first physics-based test of hemispheric deglaciation, work that was recently featured in Nature.
Scott JonesFebruary 8, 2013
An OLCF industrial partner was recently named a winner of International Data Corporation’s (IDC) HPC Innovation Excellence Award, announced in Salt Lake City, Utah at the annual supercomputing conference SC12.
Scott JonesNovember 16, 2012
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is again home to the most powerful computer in the world, according to the Top500 list, a semiannual ranking of computing systems around the world.
Scott JonesNovember 12, 2012
Jaguar metamorphosis to Titan enters last phase as NVIDIA GPUs are installed
Scott JonesSeptember 17, 2012
Ramgen Power Systems, a Seattle-based energy R&D firm, is developing a novel gas compressor system based on shock-wave technology used in supersonic flight applications by using the OLCF's Jaguar supercomputer.
Scott JonesAugust 14, 2012
OLCF Director of Science Jack Wells recently spoke at the United Technologies Engineering Fellows Lecture series at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, Connecticut on July 26.
Scott JonesAugust 13, 2012
GE Global Research, an OLCF industrial partner, was recently named a winner of International Data Corporations (IDCs) HPC Innovation Excellence Award.
Scott JonesJuly 7, 2012
A recent cover of Science magazine features a visualization from a long-standing INCITE/OLCF user team’s quest to discover the mechanism behind the explosions of core-collapse supernovas.
Scott JonesJune 15, 2012
GE takes its turbomachinery research and development to the fast lane with the help of Jaguar, one of the fastest computers in the world.
Scott JonesJune 15, 2012
OLCF users are invited to attend the upcoming GPU Technology Conference (GTC) May 14-17 in San Jose, California.
Scott JonesMarch 29, 2012
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently made a quick visit to ORNL, where he got a briefing on advanced computer simulations of nuclear energy and even took a turn experiencing the 3D environment of a virtual reactor's nuclear core.
Scott JonesFebruary 27, 2012
Homa Karimabadi’s team, in close collaboration with William Daughton at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is currently using the OLCF’s Jaguar supercomputer to better understand the processes giving rise to space weather.
Scott JonesFebruary 6, 2012
ORNL was once again a major player at high-performance computing’s (HPC’s) premier conference, SC11, which took place in Seattle, WA from November 12-18.
Scott JonesDecember 2, 2011
Once again, the Department of Energy’s premier supercomputing facility will have plenty to offer at SC11 in Seattle, Washington. Drop by the ORNL exhibit to see the latest in scientific visualizations, find out what’s new at the nation’s most powerful computing complex, or hear from a range of experts representing…
Scott JonesNovember 7, 2011
For years, academia has looked to simulation to solve some of science’s most complex problems. Recently, industry has taken notice—America’s most powerful machines are now helping its most powerful companies. Take Jaguar and Boeing, for example.
Scott JonesAugust 19, 2011
OLCF researchers a part of team recognized for work on software package A team led by ORNL’s Robert Harrison has been awarded an R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine. The team’s award stems from the development of the Multiresolution Adaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulations, or MADNESS, submitted and developed…
Scott JonesJune 29, 2011
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) hasannounced that Jack Wells will take over as the organization’s new Director of Science effective July 1, 2011.
Scott JonesJune 16, 2011
