Posts By Miki Nolin

A new integrated computational climate model developed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions marks the first successful attempt to bridge Earth systems with energy and economic models and …
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Over the last decade, the OLCF has improved its notification practices to include more targeted material and additional ways to get the message out.
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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL, once …
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With big science comes big data. In fact, large-scale simulations that run on leadership-class supercomputers work at such high speeds and resolution that they generate unprecedented amounts of data. The …
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One hundred thirty-three people attended the 2016 Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) User Meeting, making it the largest user meeting to date.

Users and administrators from the OLCF, a …
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The University of Delaware hosted this year’s second OLCF-involved hackathon, where programmers from national laboratories, universities, and vendors gather to share application GPU portability expertise and learn how to program for a hybrid CPU–GPU machine like the OLCF’s Titan supercomputer.
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The Oak Ridge and Argonne Leadership Computing Facilities, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and the Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software project are presenting a series of webinars—“Best Practices for HPC Software Developers.”
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Researchers came together to use Titan’s GPUs for two X-Stack project teams to develop demonstrations for their research prototypes.
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ORNL’s MDF recently reached out to the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Advanced Data and Workflow Group for assistance with 3-D visualization.
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The OLCF will support a new service, Spark On-Demand, that enables users to instantiate Apache Spark to conduct in situ data analysis on OLCF compute resources.
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Optimizing compute jobs based on these separate and combined streams of information, however, can be challenging. Fortunately for staff and users at the OLCF, a new tool called the Grand Unified Information Directory for the OLCF (GUIDO) has been developed to enhance existing capabilities.
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User support specialists recent made a new training video channel for current and prospective users to access training materials at any time.
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The OLCF developed Wraprun, an optimized job launching tool, to assist users of Titan that wish to run ensemble jobs.
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A team led by OLCF’s Christos Kartsaklis has built a tool to help users to extract enough parallelism from their existing programs to take advantage of additional computational power.
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ORNL and the OLCF once again took leadership roles at SC15, the 27th meeting of the annual supercomputing conference.
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Twelve women from ORNL joined thousands of colleagues at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery.
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