The OLCF took high-performance computing training to the user for the first time when experts from ORNL traveled to California for the Titan Users and Developers Workshop.
ORNL made a splash at November’s SC12 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, demonstrating the lab’s high-performance computing achievements over the past year.
Researchers led by Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric Research used ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer to explore just how much sea level is likely to rise and under what circumstances.
INCITE talks time and Titan in Japan’s Science City Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Julia White recently got the opportunity to visit Japan to share the lab’s experience in hybrid computing and in allocating supercomputing time. Julia White, INCITE program manager White is the program manager for the Innovative and Novel…
In a breakthrough that harnesses video-game technology for solving science's most complex mysteries, the U.S. government's new Titan machine was named the world's fastest supercomputer.
ORNL has launched a new era of scientific supercomputing with Titan, a system capable of 20 petaflops, by employing a family of processors, called graphics processing units (GPUs), first created for computer gaming.
High-performance computing (HPC) experts from across the world gathered in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, September 5-7 to discuss the current state of supercomputing and the upcoming transition from petascale to exascale computing.
The OLCF hosted a number of activities to this end this summer, including internships for college students and the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Summer Math-Science-Technology Institute for high school students.
Future computational scientists charged with solving important problems for the nation Tomorrow’s computational scientists need to stay relevant as well as do vital research, says OLCF Director of Science Jack Wells. Wells spoke July 27 to computational science graduate students at the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship’s (CSGF’s)…