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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