ORNL researchers are using Jaguar to simulate new desirable properties of graphene substrate.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 21, 2011
The OLCF cleared some room for next-generation machines on Tuesday, December 13, and simultaneously helped a partner.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 21, 2011
In this interview Rich Graham, group lead for the OLCF's Application Performance Tools Group, discusses the challenges presented by new hybrid computer architectures such as Titan’s.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 6, 2011
The future looks bright for the Lustre parallel file system. In August, OpenSFS and software developer Whamcloud agreed on key improvements to the open-source software system, resulting in a $2.1 million, multi-year contract.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 1, 2011
https://player.vimeo.com/video/31916134 The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded a contract to Cray Inc. to increase the Jaguar supercomputer’s science impact and energy efficiency. The upgrade, which will provide advanced capabilities in modeling and simulation, will transform the DOE Office of Science-supported Cray XT5 system, currently capable…
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 14, 2011
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Myricom, and Juniper Networks are demonstrating “wide-area” 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) between the ORNL and Juniper Networks booths at SC11, the premier international conference on high performance computing. ORNL operates the DOE Office of Science-supported Jaguar supercomputer, America’s fastest open-research system.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 14, 2011
Supercomputing efficiency shows nearly three-fold increase with new scheduling technique
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 10, 2011
Office of Science awards almost 1.7 billion supercomputing hours via the INCITE program. Researchers in the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science are dedicated to passing on those gifts, especially through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 9, 2011
More than 100 participants from government, industry, and academia attended the 2011 Computational Sciences and Engineering conference to discuss strategies for optimizing high- performance computing resources used in advanced modeling and simulation of grand challenges in energy.
OLCF Staff WriterOctober 31, 2011
Scientists use Oak Ridge and Argonne supercomputers to gain insight into nuclear behavior The Vary team made predictions about the behavior of fluoride–14 and published its results in Physical Review C. The predictions (ab initio bars) nearly matched an experiment done 6 months later at Texas A&M’s Cyclotron Institute (experiment…
OLCF Staff WriterOctober 31, 2011
The Titan Summit workshop held August 15–17, 2011, covered the evolution to the next level of high-performance computational resources, enabling more groundbreaking research in climate, energy creation and storage, biology, chemistry, astrophysics, and materials.
OLCF Staff WriterSeptember 12, 2011
The OLCF’s Rebecca Hartman-Baker and Adam Simpson added their expertise recently to a weeklong workshop designed to bring more chemistry faculty and students into the world of high-performance computing.
OLCF Staff WriterSeptember 12, 2011
Overview prepares Jaguar users for coming upgrades Users got a first glimpse of ORNL’s next-generation leadership-class supercomputer at a July 26 webinar. In a significant step toward exascale computing, the OLCF is upgrading Jaguar, a Cray XT5 machine that is currently the third-fastest computer in the world. When the upgrades…
OLCF Staff WriterAugust 19, 2011
The ORNL Industrial HPC Partnerships Program has fostered collaboration and innovation between government and the private sector for the past 2 years. Recently project director Suzy Tichenor reached out to new audiences as she traveled to Stuttgart, Germany, and Denver, Colorado, to showcase the program’s expansion and achievements.
OLCF Staff WriterAugust 19, 2011
OLCF users got a first glimpse of ORNL’s next-generation leadership-class supercomputer at a July 26 webinar.
OLCF Staff WriterAugust 19, 2011
A research team led by Jon Reisner of Los Alamos National Laboratory is employing the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Jaguar supercomputer to use data from lightning detectors and even wind instruments mounted on planes flown into the eye of a hurricane to improve atmospheric models.
OLCF Staff WriterAugust 19, 2011
Three animations created by ORNL computer visualization specialists Dave Pugmire and Mike Matheson won big at the SciDAC Electronic Visualization Night, held on July 12 in Denver, Colorado.
OLCF Staff WriterAugust 3, 2011
Using Jaguar, a research team led by William Tang of DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a clearer picture of plasma confinement properties in an experimental device that will pave the way to future commercial fusion power plants.
OLCF Staff WriterAugust 3, 2011
A team of scientists has been awarded a total of 80 million processor hours at the OLCF and the ALCF for QCD research to help develop a unified theory of how the four fundamental forces of nature interact.
OLCF Staff WriterJuly 19, 2011
