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Exascale blastoff
3 months ago

Exascale blastoff

By  •  3 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

With the world’s first exascale supercomputer now fully open for scientific business, researchers can thank the early users who helped get the machine up to speed.

Frontier set a new …
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Summit study fathoms troubled waters of ocean turbulence
4 months ago

Summit study fathoms troubled waters of ocean turbulence

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Simulations performed on the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed new insights into the role of turbulence in mixing fluids and could open new …
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Early Frontier users seize exascale advantage, grapple with grand scientific challenges
4 months ago

Early Frontier users seize exascale advantage, grapple with grand scientific challenges

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Science

With the world’s first exascale supercomputing system now open to full user operations, research teams are harnessing Frontier’s power and speed to tackle some of the most challenging problems in …
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Learning with the flow
4 months ago

Learning with the flow

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

The bigger the swirl, the bigger the problem — and the bigger the computing power needed to solve it.

Computational fluid dynamics researchers have spent decades studying how liquids and …
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Putting quantum circuits to the test
4 months ago

Putting quantum circuits to the test

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

Researchers used Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, to perform the first independent comparison test of leading quantum computers.

The study surveyed 24 quantum processors and …
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Best of 2023
5 months ago

Best of 2023

By  •  5 months ago  •  People

Paul Abston, leader of the HPC Infrastructure Operations Group of the National Center for Computational Sciences and manager of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s data center, has been named …
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Forging a file system
6 months ago

Forging a file system

By  •  6 months ago  •  Featured, People, Science

Imagine solving the greatest scientific question of the era but having no way to save your answer.

No need to fear, thanks to Dustin Leverman and his team. Leverman leads …
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Exascale acceleration
10 months ago

Exascale acceleration

By  •  10 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Just how fast can the world’s fastest supercomputer go? Maybe even faster than imagined.

Researchers studying plasma physics for particle accelerators recently used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Frontier …
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Charting the new Frontier
11 months ago

Charting the new Frontier

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, OLCF History, Science

The Frontier supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory logged a new benchmark this week that further illustrates its world-changing potential and held onto its top ranking as …
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Solving the protein puzzle
11 months ago

Solving the protein puzzle

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

A simple scoop of soil or water can hold an entire ecosystem–potentially millions or more microscopic organisms and the countless proteins they rely on to survive.

Computations performed at the …
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Fast-tracking medical discovery
11 months ago

Fast-tracking medical discovery

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

The world’s fastest supercomputer could help discover the next great cure hiding in plain sight.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used Frontier, the world’s …
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Spinning up Quantum Fidelity
12 months ago

Spinning up Quantum Fidelity

By  •  12 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Researchers reached new levels of accuracy in quantum simulations of spin defects using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, at the U.S. Department of …
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OLCF researchers win R&D 100 award
1 year ago

OLCF researchers win R&D 100 award

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Industry, People

A team that includes researchers from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility recently received an R&D 100 Award for their work on Flash-X, a multiphysics simulation software package with applications …
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ORNL Celebrates Launch of Frontier – the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
1 year ago

ORNL Celebrates Launch of Frontier – the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

By  •  1 year ago  •  Events, Featured

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory celebrated the debut of Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer and the dawn of the exascale computing era.

Deputy Secretary of Energy …
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Weaving wonders
1 year ago

Weaving wonders

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Ounce for ounce, carbon fiber could quickly become the wonder material of the future. The material, already used in a variety of products, boasts densities comparable to plastic, strengths comparable …
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Speeding up simulations
1 year ago

Speeding up simulations

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

Artificial intelligence has transformed industrial research and development in recent decades during what scientists call “the AI revolution.” The technology enables detailed simulations and high-speed modeling that can streamline the …
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