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Start-up Firm Taps Titan to Model Flooding Risks Worldwide
9 years ago

Start-up Firm Taps Titan to Model Flooding Risks Worldwide

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

KatRisk, a small California startup, is using Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer, to create an unprecedented product: flood risk maps covering the globe.
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World’s Most Powerful Accelerator Comes to Titan with a High-Tech Scheduler

By  •  9 years ago  •  Technology

The PanDA collaboration holds potential benefits for OLCF as well as for ATLAS.
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Titan Project Explores the Smallest Building Blocks of Matter

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

A team from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Virginia is working to deepen our understanding of quarks, enlisting the help of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer.
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Simulation Shuffles Protons and Electrons

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

Titan is allowing scientists to simulate proton-coupled electron transfer at a level that was previously impossible.
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Superconductor Simulation Tops 15 Petaflops on Titan
10 years ago

Superconductor Simulation Tops 15 Petaflops on Titan

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Researchers simulating high-temperature superconductors has topped 15 petaflops on ORNL’s Titan supercomputer. More importantly, they did it with an algorithm that substantially overcomes two major roadblocks to realistic superconductor modeling.
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OLCF Web Developer Receives Professional Honor

By  •  10 years ago  •  People

OLCF web developer Brian Gajus was recently honored by the graphic design community.
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Hold It Right There

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Researchers with CASL are simulating fuel rod stabilization on ORNL’s Titan supercomputer.
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Titan Completes Acceptance Testing

By  •  10 years ago  •  Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer has completed rigorous acceptance testing to ensure the functionality, performance and stability of the machine, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems for open science.
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Jaguar Guides Demonstration of Novel Quantum State

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Researchers combining the supercomputing muscle of ORNL’s Jaguar with the experimental abilities of powerful research magnets have confirmed an exotic quantum state known as Bose glass.
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Platinum vs Nickel: Battle of the Biomass Catalysts
10 years ago

Platinum vs Nickel: Battle of the Biomass Catalysts

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

A project led by Amra Peles of UTRC is pushing the limits of lower-cost, genuinely renewable hydrogen production and use for fuel cells.
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Jaguar Gone But Not Forgotten

By  •  11 years ago  •  Technology

ORNL’s Jaguar, the supercomputer that brought working scientific applications into the petascale, has left the theater.
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Titan is Also a Green Powerhouse

By  •  11 years ago  •  Technology

Not only is Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan the world’s most powerful supercomputer, it is also one of the most energy-efficient.
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Oxygen-23 Loses Its Halo

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

A research team from ORNL, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Oslo in Norway recently performed intense calculations of the oxygen-23 nucleus using ORNL’s Jaguar supercomputer.
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ORNL/UTK Team Maps the Nuclear Landscape

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

An ORNL and University of Tennessee team has used the Department of Energy’s Jaguar supercomputer to calculate the number of isotopes allowed by the laws of physics. The team’s results are presented in the June 28 issue of the journal Nature.
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ORNL Completes First Phase of Titan Supercomputer Transition

By  •  11 years ago  •  Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer has completed the first phase of an upgrade that will keep it among the most powerful scientific computing systems in the world.
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When a Magnet Isn’t a Magnet

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

Using an application that took the 2009 Gordon Bell Prize as the world’s most advanced scientific computing application, a team led by ORNL’s Markus Eisenbach has been simulating the magnetic properties of promising materials, focusing in particular on the magnetocaloric effect. Its work is detailed in three recent papers in the Journal of Applied Physics.
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