OLCF, UTK Researchers Explore Potential of Quantum Annealing to Solve Optimization Problems

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OLCF, UTK Researchers Explore Potential of Quantum Annealing to Solve Optimization Problems

Researchers at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) and University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) established a quantum annealing benchmark for optimization problems with the help of a quantum computer. The results of the research were published in Physical Review Applied. The OLCF is a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office…

Andrea SchneibelFebruary 1, 2021

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Scientists Tap the Power of High-Performance Computing in a Bet to Understand Cancer Growth

A multi-institutional team of scientists is using Summit, America’s fastest supercomputer for open science, to get a better understanding of how certain proteins signal body cells to reproduce uncontrollably, triggering cancer. Summit is part of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of…

Andrea SchneibelDecember 22, 2020

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OLCF Researchers, Staff, Recognized on UT-Battelle Awards Night

Several Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) researchers, users, and staff members are being honored for their contributions to science and the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) at this year’s UT-Battelle Awards Night. The OLCF is an Office of Science User Facility at ORNL. The…

Andrea SchneibelNovember 19, 2020

Technology

Data Matters: Scientific Data Management Tool Improves Labeling, Information Sharing for OLCF Researchers

This story is the fourth in a series called “Data Matters,” a collection of features dedicated to exploring the relevance of data for scientific advancement and exploration at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, across Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and beyond. The increasingly collaborative nature of scientific research has established…

Andrea SchneibelNovember 19, 2020

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In a Groundbreaking Move, Summit Joins Forces with BlazingSQL to Speed up Data Query Processing on Supercomputers

Computational scientists at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) are using the power of NVIDIA GPU computing and BlazingSQL, a new engine for GPU-accelerated queries using the SQL language, to substantially speed up big data analysis, such as is needed for their work on drug discovery for COVID-19. OLCF…

Andrea SchneibelOctober 28, 2020

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NCCS Summer Interns Completed Successful Season Despite COVID-19

Thanks to the efforts of dozens of scientists and support staff, and despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, summer interns in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) recently completed their learning season on a high note. One of those students, Jenna Delozier, a 2020 Maryville College graduate…

Andrea SchneibelAugust 26, 2020

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OLCF’s Constellation DOI Offers a Permanent Home for OLCF Users’ Data Sets

This story is the third in a series called “Data Matters,” a collection of features dedicated to exploring the relevance of data for scientific advancement and exploration at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, across Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and beyond. As new science builds on previous research, continuous access…

Andrea SchneibelJuly 28, 2020

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Summit Ranks on Graph500 List Using Only a Fraction of Its Computing Power

The Graph500 is a list published twice a year that benchmarks the speed at which a computer performs graph operations. For the first time ever and using only a fraction of its processing power, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) supercomputer has entered the Graph500 ranking, a list published twice…

Andrea SchneibelApril 29, 2020

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New Data Analysis Software Tools Aim at Addressing the Convergence of HPC and AI

This story is the second in a series called “Data Matters,” a collection of features dedicated to exploring the relevance of data for scientific advancement and exploration at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, across Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and beyond. Taking advantage of a computer’s full memory capacity and…

Andrea SchneibelApril 29, 2020

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OLCF is Looking into the Present and the Future of Large-Scale Data Science

This story is the first in a series called “Data Matters,” a short series of features dedicated to exploring the relevance of data for scientific advancement and exploration at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, across Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and beyond. Optimizing large sets of data to drive new…

Andrea SchneibelJanuary 17, 2020

Coiled magnesium sheets and magnesium ingots.

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Metal Alloys for Industrial Applications Benefit from Supercomputer Modeling

Using machine learning and simulations, scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have confirmed a relationship between two mechanisms used to explain the ductility properties of magnesium alloys, according to a study published in Materials & Design. For the study, scientists analyzed data from previous…

Andrea SchneibelJanuary 17, 2020

The Sycamore quantum processor. Photograph by Erik Lucero/Google

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Quantum Processors are Now Challenging Conventional HPC Systems

To prove quantum supremacy, a joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), needed to rule out that classical supercomputers could perform computational tasks at the same speed as Google’s Sycamore quantum computer. So, they came to the…

Andrea SchneibelOctober 23, 2019

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ORNL Celebrates First National Exascale Day on October 18

On October 18, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will celebrate the first-ever National Exascale Day. The holiday—an initiative of DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company—honors scientists and researchers who will make groundbreaking discoveries with the help of some…

Andrea SchneibelOctober 17, 2019

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