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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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Pushing the new Frontier
1 year ago

Pushing the new Frontier

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, OLCF History, Science

The numbers are in, Frontier ranks No. 1, and the researchers of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s National Center for Computational Sciences are finally breathing a few sighs of relief.

Teams …
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Summit, neutrons crack code to uranium compound’s signature vibes
2 years ago

Summit, neutrons crack code to uranium compound’s signature vibes

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to map the molecular vibrations of an important but little-studied uranium compound produced during the nuclear fuel cycle for results …
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Summit Fires up Predictive Breakthrough for Gas Turbines
2 years ago

Summit Fires up Predictive Breakthrough for Gas Turbines

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

Gas-fired turbines keep electric generators humming around the world, from power plants and factories to hospitals and universities. But the combustion process that fuels these engines comes with a billion-dollar-a-year …
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From Summit to the Stars
2 years ago

From Summit to the Stars

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) wrapped up its 2021 hackathon with teams from around the globe working on projects that spanned the cosmos.

Ten teams with a total of …
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Super Simulations for Superconducting
2 years ago

Super Simulations for Superconducting

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science

A study led by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to close in on the answer to a …
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Firing Up Quantum Fidelity
2 years ago

Firing Up Quantum Fidelity

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Researchers used the Quantum Computing User Program (QCUP) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to achieve major improvements in quantum fidelity, a potential step …
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Thinking outside the Black Box
2 years ago

Thinking outside the Black Box

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

A study led by scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) plumbs the depths of deep learning and could connect the digital synapses toward …
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OLCF’s Bing Xie Receives Early Career Award
2 years ago

OLCF’s Bing Xie Receives Early Career Award

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, People

Bing Xie, a high-performance computing systems engineer for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society’s Early Career Researchers Award for …
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Darwin on Fast Forward: ORNL Study on COVID-19 Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize Nomination
2 years ago

Darwin on Fast Forward: ORNL Study on COVID-19 Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize Nomination

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science

As the coronavirus pandemic entered its second year, a team of scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to streamline the …
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Waltzing the Virus: Study on COVID-19 Reproduction Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize Nomination
2 years ago

Waltzing the Virus: Study on COVID-19 Reproduction Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize Nomination

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science

To find weapons to fight the coronavirus, scientists used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to peer inside the intricacies of how the virus reproduces itself.

“Think of it as like a …
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Unraveling the “Big Boom”
2 years ago

Unraveling the “Big Boom”

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Simulations performed on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer provide a more detailed look at how stars die and could help unlock new insights into the origins of Earth’s heavy …
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Pioneering Frontier: Test-Driving with “User Zero”
2 years ago

Pioneering Frontier: Test-Driving with “User Zero”

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, People

The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented ORNL employees behind the construction and operation of the OLCF’s incoming exascale supercomputer, Frontier. The HPE Cray system is scheduled …
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