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Coury Turczyn

Coury Turczyn writes communications content for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). He has worked in different communications fields over the years, though much of his career has been devoted to local journalism. In between his journalism stints, Coury worked as a web content editor for CNET.com, the G4 cable TV network, and HGTV.com.

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U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE Program Seeks Proposals for 2022

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program is seeking proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. The deadline is June 18, 2021. INCITE’s open call provides an opportunity for…
Coury Turczyn
April 12, 2021
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The Magic is Gone for Certain Atomic Nuclei

Using the power of the Summit supercomputer, researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have verified the results of a groundbreaking experiment to precisely measure the charge radii of neutron-rich potassium isotopes. The findings challenge current nuclear theory…
Coury Turczyn
April 6, 2021
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Pioneering Frontier: Keeping the Power On

The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented ORNL employees behind the construction and operation of the OLCF’s incoming exascale supercomputer, Frontier. The HPE Cray system is scheduled for delivery in 2021, with full user operations in 2022. Electrical Engineering Specialist Rick Griffin had just powered up his…
Coury Turczyn
March 31, 2021
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ORNL’s Supercomputer Utility Squad

With more than 1,000 researchers around the world using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) IBM AC922 Summit this year to pursue some of the biggest mysteries in science, the nation’s most powerful supercomputer gets little downtime. At any given hour, it’s typically running complex codes to investigate everything…
Coury Turczyn
March 31, 2021
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Pioneering Frontier: Planning Ahead

The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented ORNL employees behind the construction and operation of the OLCF’s incoming exascale supercomputer, Frontier. The HPE Cray system is scheduled for delivery in 2021, with full user operations in 2022. Whenever David Grant wakes up in the middle of the…
Coury Turczyn
February 18, 2021
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DOE and NOAA Extend Strategic Partnership

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have formally agreed to renew their strategic partnership to run and manage the National Climate-Computing Research Center (NCRC). For the past decade, the NCRC has provided a supercomputer platform for NOAA scientists to define the leading…
Coury Turczyn
January 12, 2021
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Building an Exascale-Class Data Center

When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) new exascale supercomputer, Frontier, completes installation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2021, it will later debut as a landmark in high-performance computing with groundbreaking performance of greater than 1.5 exaflops (one quintillion floating-point operations per second). But right now—long before Frontier’s…
Coury Turczyn
December 14, 2020
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Four Teams Using ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Named Finalists in 2020 Gordon Bell Prize

Since 1987, the Association for Computing Machinery has awarded the annual Gordon Bell Prize to recognize outstanding achievements in high-performance computing (HPC). Presented each year at the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), the prizes not only reward innovative projects that employ HPC for applications in…
Coury Turczyn
November 10, 2020
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The Greenest Option: Finding New Homes for Old Machines

As head of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure Operations Group in the National Center for Computational Science (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Paul Abston does not like to see government investments in technology go to waste. Even more so, he is highly…
Coury Turczyn
October 28, 2020
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Reaching New Heights in Weather Forecasting’s Exascale Future

Using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) IBM AC922 Summit—the nation’s most powerful supercomputer devoted to open science, located at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)—a team of researchers from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and ORNL achieved a computational first:…
Coury Turczyn
August 28, 2020
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Realizing the Dream of Rotating Detonation Engines through an OLCF, NETL, GE, and University of Michigan Collaboration

Revisiting an engine concept first proposed in the 1950s, researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) are conducting trailblazing research that may finally unlock its potential for ultra-high-efficiency propulsion and power generation. UM professor of aerospace engineering Venkat Raman has tapped the nation’s most powerful supercomputer for open science, Summit,…
Coury Turczyn
August 26, 2020
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Laying the Groundwork for a New ‘Green Revolution’

In 2015, all member states of the United Nations pledged to pursue the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set forth by the UN General Assembly in its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The goals serve as a framework to tackle many of the world’s challenges, ranging from practical issues like infrastructure…
Coury Turczyn
August 10, 2020
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Take a Virtual Tour of ORNL’s Supercomputer Center

The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) house some of the world’s fastest high-performance computing resources. Located at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), these innovative machines are in high-security facilities, not often open to the general public.…
Coury Turczyn
August 10, 2020
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OLCF Names New Director of Science

Bronson Messer—a computational astrophysicist, Distinguished Scientist in the Scientific Computing and Theoretical Physics groups at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and a former Jeopardy! champion—has been named the new director of science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). As director of science,…
Coury Turczyn
June 4, 2020
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OLCF Staff and Researchers Make a Smooth Transition to Working Remotely

When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) committed its IBM Power System AC922 Summit supercomputer to conducting open research in the fight against COVID-19, it initiated an unprecedented all-hands effort. Summit is currently running simulations for at least ten individual research projects by other national…
Coury Turczyn
April 29, 2020