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.
Leo WilliamsNovember 11, 2014
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.
Leo WilliamsMarch 18, 2014
Titan is allowing scientists to simulate proton-coupled electron transfer at a level that was previously impossible.
Leo WilliamsDecember 16, 2013
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.
Leo WilliamsNovember 12, 2013
OLCF web developer Brian Gajus was recently honored by the graphic design community.
Leo WilliamsSeptember 5, 2013
Researchers with CASL are simulating fuel rod stabilization on ORNL’s Titan supercomputer.
Leo WilliamsJune 19, 2013
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.
Leo WilliamsJune 12, 2013
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.
Leo WilliamsJune 5, 2013
A project led by Amra Peles of UTRC is pushing the limits of lower-cost, genuinely renewable hydrogen production and use for fuel cells.
Leo WilliamsDecember 18, 2012
ORNL’s Jaguar, the supercomputer that brought working scientific applications into the petascale, has left the theater.
Leo WilliamsNovember 16, 2012
Not only is Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan the world’s most powerful supercomputer, it is also one of the most energy-efficient.
Leo WilliamsNovember 14, 2012
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.
Leo WilliamsJuly 26, 2012
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.
Leo WilliamsJune 27, 2012
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.
Leo WilliamsFebruary 29, 2012
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…
Leo WilliamsDecember 2, 2011
Researchers from Purdue University, the University of Alabama–Huntsville, and Switzerland’s ETH Zurich are finalists for this year’s coveted ACM Gordon Bell Prize, thanks to a nanoscale simulation of electronic devices performed on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer.
Leo WilliamsNovember 11, 2011
Simulation provides a close-up look at the molecule that complicates next-generation biofuels Leadership-class molecular dynamics simulation of the plant components lignin and cellulose. This 3.3 million-atom simulation was performed on 30,000 cores of the Jaguar XT5 supercomputer and investigated lignin precipitation on cellulose fibrils, a process that poses a significant…
Leo WilliamsSeptember 12, 2011
The nucleus of an atom, like most everything else, is more complicated than we first thought. Just how much more complicated is the subject of a Petascale Early Science project led by ORNL’s David Dean.
Leo WilliamsJuly 10, 2011
Discovery boosts supercapacitor energy storage Computational modeling of carbon supercapacitors with the effects of surface curvature included.—Image credit: Jingsong Huang, ORNL Flat is in the eye of the beholder. When you’re talking about nanomaterials, however, that eye is pretty much useless unless it’s looking through an electron microscope or at…
Leo WilliamsJune 16, 2011
