ORNL staff members contributed knowledge and support to a new geology unit of the JASON Project which recently earned a “CODiE Award” as the nation’s best science or health curriculum.
OLCF Staff WriterJuly 19, 2011
Five Oak Ridge National Laboratory staffers presented at the Institute for Nuclear Theory’s (INT’s) workshop, “The Nuclear Physics/Applied Math/Computer Science Interface,” held June 27 through July 1 at the University of Washington.
OLCF Staff WriterJuly 18, 2011
The OLCF recently held a “Crash Course in Supercomputing” for approximately 60 summer interns to provide an overview of concepts and techniques in high-performance computing.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 29, 2011
Mike Henderson, CEO of BMI Corporation and Smart Truck, was announced as one of nine winners of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, given to organizations achieving an important, quantifiable achievement with the help of high-performance computing.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 29, 2011
The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded OLCF staff members James Rogers and Bobby Whitten with Outstanding Mentor Awards.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 16, 2011
Members of the OLCF staff joined high-performance computing professionals from around the U.S. for the 2011 Cray User Group (CUG) meeting held in Fairbanks, AK, May 23-26.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 16, 2011
Calculations on the Jaguar supercomputer reveal metal binding likely to misfold alpha-synuclein Alpha-synuclein, a protein that misfolds in Parkinson's disease, is shown in its free state (top) and bound to copper (bottom). Copper binding, detailed in the boxed area, accelerates the protein's misfolding. Image credit: Frisco Rose, Miroslav Hodak, and…
OLCF Staff WriterJune 14, 2011
Jaguar helps allow BMI to complete the modeling phase of the Smart Truck project approximately ten times faster than otherwise possible.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 6, 2011
Independent software developers are introduced to SciDAC tools and applications to aid in the transition to multicore systems
OLCF Staff WriterMay 24, 2011
On April 13, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that proposals are now being accepted for the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, which supports high-impact scientific advances through the use of the DOE Leadership Computing Facilities located at Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories.…
OLCF Staff WriterApril 13, 2011
The four-day event, the 2011 OLCF Spring Training, had courses for novices and supercomputing veterans alike.
OLCF Staff WriterApril 5, 2011
Through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC), allocations were awarded to five projects with an emphasis on high-risk, high-impact research related to DOE’s energy mission. They are already providing insight into important efforts such as advancing the clean-energy agenda and understanding the Earth’s climate.
OLCF Staff WriterApril 5, 2011
BMI Corporation is combining their aerospace and race care design expertise with the power of the OLCF’s Jaguar supercomputer to create a new, long haul “SmartTruck” that will increase fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
OLCF Staff WriterMarch 2, 2011
A team led by University of Iowa astrophysicist Gregory Howes is using ORNL’s Jaguar supercomputer to explore astrophysical plasma.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 15, 2011
The publishers of the online supercomputing magazine HPCwire expect great things of ORNL computational chemist Edoardo Aprà in the coming year. Aprà is among 10 individuals included in the magazine’s “People to Watch” list for 2011.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 14, 2011
Using Jaguar, a research team led by Aleksei Aksimentiev, assistant professor in the physics department at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign, began a project to create machines for personal genome sequencing that will be more accessible to hospitals.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 14, 2011
Using Jaguar, SEACISM’s aim is to use state-of-the-art simulation to predict the behavior of ice sheets under a changing climate by developing scalable algorithms.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 14, 2011
Users of ORNL’s Cray XT5 supercomputers will get an opportunity to hone their supercomputing skills this March at a weeklong “Spring Training” planned at ORNL.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 13, 2011
OLCF computational astrophysicist Bronson Messer described the impending death of a giant—a red giant star, that is.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 12, 2011
