Distinct ACM Gordon Bell Prizes Awarded to Two Teams Using the Summit Supercomputer

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Distinct ACM Gordon Bell Prizes Awarded to Two Teams Using the Summit Supercomputer

A team from the University of California Berkeley, Peking University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Princeton University won the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. Image Credit: SC20 Today at the 2020 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, or SC20, virtual conference, two deserving teams were awarded…

Rachel McDowellNovember 19, 2020

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Multi-Institutional Team Earns Gordon Bell Special Prize Finalist Nomination for Rapid COVID-19 Molecular Docking Simulations

One of the biggest challenges of drug discovery lies in the fact that scientists must search through an almost infinite space of chemical compounds to find one that might be capable of interfering with the infectious disease process. When the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 began sweeping the globe, scientists…

Rachel McDowellNovember 18, 2020

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Gordon Bell Special Prize Finalist Team Reveals AI Workflow for Molecular Systems in the Era of COVID-19

Since a team at the University of Texas at Austin and the National Institutes of Health first mapped the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein—the main infection machinery of the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease—scientists around the world have been eager to understand more about this structure and the others that make…

Rachel McDowellNovember 18, 2020

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Two Finalists Nominated for Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID-19 Work on Summit

Every year at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), one deserving team is awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize to recognize an outstanding achievement in high-performance computing (HPC). Winners are chosen based on the demonstrated innovativeness of their algorithm development…

Rachel McDowellNovember 18, 2020

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OLCF to Trial Long-Awaited Fujitsu Processors in Arm-Based Test Bed System

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has upgraded its Arm-based test system, Wombat, equipping it with the HPE Apollo 80 system that uses the same processor architecture found in the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, located at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science. Wombat’s new Fujitsu A64FX processors, developed by…

Rachel McDowellNovember 10, 2020

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OLCF Launches New User Portal, myOLCF

In the past, users of the supercomputing resources at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) have accessed information about their computing projects through a static portal that provides metrics and statistics upon login. Although this information is helpful from a reporting perspective, users have been unable to control certain…

Rachel McDowellNovember 10, 2020

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Summit Uncovers Details of Molecular Ferris Wheels Inside Cell Structures

Using the Summit supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a team at the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute has confirmed details of a molecular mechanism that cell organelles use to regulate the pH of their environment—and it looks a lot like a Ferris…

Rachel McDowellOctober 28, 2020

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NCCS’ James Simmons Recognized as Top Lustre Contributor of the Decade

James Simmons has contributed to the Lustre code base for ten years, contributing more than 250,000 lines of code to benefit the entire Lustre community. The National Center for Computational Sciences’ (NCCS's) James Simmons was recognized by the Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS) organization at the virtual user meeting…

Rachel McDowellSeptember 23, 2020

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NASA Team Releases Mars Landing Simulation Data to Encourage New Research into Spacecraft Descent Technologies

Scientists at NASA aim to one day land giant payloads on Mars, but safely descending passengers, flight crew, and other equipment in an atmosphere much thinner than Earth’s poses a significant challenge. Scientists studying potential Mars landing technologies need large-scale computational resources to model such scenarios, and to accurately model…

Rachel McDowellSeptember 23, 2020

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Runs on Summit Provided Data for Cray’s New Networking Benchmark

Companies that design the networks that allow compute systems to share information often rely on certain benchmarks to test how well their networks perform. But the traditional benchmarks that measure network latency—the time it takes to send a message across the network—and bandwidth, the rate at which data is transferred…

Rachel McDowellSeptember 23, 2020

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Powering Frontier

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is poised to deliver Frontier, its first exascale supercomputer, next year. Exascale systems are capable of operating at 1 quintillion calculations per second, requiring a significant amount of power and generating substantial amounts of heat. Before the engineers working…

Rachel McDowellSeptember 23, 2020

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Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Fosters GCC Compiler Development with Mentor Contract

The computational scientists who run codes on the massively powerful supercomputers at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) are working on solving some of the world’s most challenging problems. The OLCF supports research in areas ranging from biology to engineering to energy—and it is now supporting work related to…

Rachel McDowellSeptember 3, 2020

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Sparks Fly in Marriage of GE’s GENESIS Code and the Summit Supercomputer

General Electric (GE)—a company well-known for its contributions to aviation, power, renewable energy, and more—aims to design gas turbine jet engines that are world leading in efficiency, emissions, and durability. The stakes are high—every few minutes, an airplane carrying one of GE's engines takes off somewhere in the world. Competition…

Rachel McDowellAugust 10, 2020

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Computational Gene Study Suggests New Pathway for COVID-19 Inflammatory Response

Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation’s fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the runaway symptoms produced by the body’s response to SARS-CoV-2. A team led by Dan Jacobson of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Summit…

Rachel McDowellJuly 28, 2020

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Summit Helps Predict Molecular Breakups

Designing materials with certain properties is the first step to making computer chips that can store more information, superconductors that could help to solve the world’s energy problems, and drugs that work more efficiently in the human body. The transition metals in the periodic table of elements are crucial to…

Rachel McDowellJune 24, 2020

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Cracking the Linux Code with the OLCF’s Ketan Maheshwari

The OLCF’s Ketan Maheshwari developed a tutorial on Linux productivity tools that provides Linux users with practical application techniques for the operating system. Image Credit: Jason Richards, ORNL The Linux operating system is used to run processes both on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Summit—the world’s most powerful…

Rachel McDowellJune 24, 2020

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Knocking Out Drug Side Effects with Supercomputing

Psychedelic drugs could be effective in treating psychiatric disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, but medical use of these drugs is limited by the hallucinations they cause. “What if we could redesign drugs to keep their benefits while eliminating their unwanted side effects?” asked Ron Dror, an associate…

Rachel McDowellJune 4, 2020

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Supercomputing Aids Scientists Seeking Therapies for Deadly Bacterial Disease

Francisella tularensis, a bacterium that causes the illness tularemia (also known as “rabbit fever”), is one of the most hostile organisms on the planet. Once the bacterium enters the body and tularemia sets in, an infected person can experience a range of symptoms, from ulcers to tonsillitis to pneumonia that…

Rachel McDowellMay 18, 2020

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OLCF Offers New Workload Capabilities with Slate Service

The large scientific simulations users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) run on the center’s IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer almost always require other attendant tasks to fully realize their scientific impact. Resources for these additional “workflow” tasks can be scarce, and pushing this work to the login or…

Rachel McDowellMarch 27, 2020

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New Job Step Viewer Tool Captures Job Launching on Summit

Before computational users launch large scientific jobs on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer, they need to understand how they will use the full power of the machine’s hybrid nodes, including memory layout, CPU, and GPU usage. Now, they have a way to see this…

Rachel McDowellMarch 27, 2020

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