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Summit Fires up Predictive Breakthrough for Gas Turbines

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 problem: Under the wrong conditions, the resulting heat and noise can cause tremors and vibrations known as thermoacoustic oscillations, which…
Matt Lakin
March 30, 2022
ScienceTechnology

From Summit to the Stars

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 71 participants from 21 organizations took part in the October hackathon hosted by the OLCF, home to Summit, the nation’s…
Matt Lakin
March 18, 2022
Science

Super Simulations for Superconducting

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 central question of modern physics that could help conduct development of the next generation of energy technologies. "This is mostly…
Matt Lakin
February 18, 2022
ScienceTechnology

Firing Up Quantum Fidelity

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 toward more accurate, reliable quantum networks and supercomputers. Quantum computing relies on transfer and storage of information via quantum bits,…
Matt Lakin
January 7, 2022
ScienceTechnology

Thinking outside the Black Box

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 better, more reliable artificial-intelligence (AI) models. The research team from ORNL and the National Energy Technology Laboratory used Summit, the…
Matt Lakin
January 6, 2022
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OLCF’s Bing Xie Receives Early Career Award

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 excellence in high-performance computing, or HPC. The award recognizes outstanding, influential and potentially long-lasting HPC contributions. Xie received her PhD…
Matt Lakin
November 17, 2021
Science

Unraveling the “Big Boom”

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 elements. The study, conducted by scientists at ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, modeled the collapse and explosion of…
Matt Lakin
November 11, 2021
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Pioneering Frontier: Test-Driving with “User Zero”

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 for delivery in 2021, with full user operations in 2022. When Tom Papatheodore logs on, the discoveries begin. Papatheodore, a…
Matt Lakin
August 31, 2021
Science

Titan Study Takes Jet Turbine Design to New Heights

Simulations performed on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Titan supercomputer could clear the runway for more efficient jet-engine turbines and help set a new benchmark for turbine design. The study by an international team of scientists modeled air flow over a 3D turbine blade using the computational power of Titan,…
Matt Lakin
July 22, 2021
People

Hands-On Supercomputing

On June 21–22, interns and other participants at Oak Ridge National Laboratory had the chance to run challenge problems on the nation’s fastest supercomputer at a summer hands-on training session hosted by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility. This…
Matt Lakin
July 22, 2021
People

Pioneering Frontier: Fine-Tuning “Serial No. 1”

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 for delivery in 2021, with full user operations in 2022. The world’s fastest supercomputer comes with some assembly required. Frontier,…
Matt Lakin
July 21, 2021
Frontier construction and installationEvents

Unstoppable Science

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), marked its 17th annual user meeting on June 22–24 with success stories in the midst of a global pandemic and sneak peeks of the home for the…
Matt Lakin
July 9, 2021
Events

2021 User Meeting Set for June

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will hold its 17th annual user meeting June 22–24, 2021. Like the 2020 meeting, this year’s meeting will take place entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Whether…
Matt Lakin
May 27, 2021
Technology

OLCF Announces Storage Specifications for Frontier Exascale System

A newly enhanced I/O subsystem will support the nation’s first exascale supercomputer and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy high-performance computing user facility. The OLCF announced storage specifications for their pioneering HPE Cray Frontier supercomputer, an exascale-class system set to power up by year’s…
Matt Lakin
May 20, 2021
OLCF Pioneering Frontier series - Jason Hill, risk manager for the OLCFPeople

Pioneering Frontier: Planning Against Pitfalls

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 for delivery in 2021, with full user operations in 2022. Jason Hill sometimes jokes he knocks on wood for a…
Matt Lakin
May 19, 2021
OpenSFSEvents

Register Now for Lustre User Group Conference 2021

Experts from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and high-performance computing users from around the world will participate next week in the 2021 Lustre User Group (LUG) annual conference. Lustre, an open-source, parallel file system, has supported leading HPC systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and worldwide for the past…
Matt Lakin
May 10, 2021