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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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OLCF Supercharges Supercomputer Analytics with Apache Kafka

The high-performance computing (HPC) systems at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are about to vault into the “pubsub” era of real-time streaming analytics. Employing the open-source Apache Kafka event-streaming platform, ORNL’s HPC Core Operations (Ops) Group has built a whole new publish/subscribe system for…
Coury Turczyn
December 16, 2019
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In Its 15th Year, INCITE Advances Open Science with Supercomputer Grants to 47 Projects

MEDIA CONTACTS: Katie Bethea Oak Ridge National Laboratory [email protected] 865-576-8039 Brian Grabowski Argonne National Laboratory [email protected] 630-252-1232 OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 18, 2019— The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 47 science projects for 2020—awarding 60 percent of the available time on some…
Coury Turczyn
November 18, 2019
SULI student Jess Woods and mentor Oscar HernandezPeople

SULI Profile: Jess Woods

When Jess Woods enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), he was sure he’d pursue a degree in studio art. He loved oil painting, and it seemed like the right career path. Then he took a math class. Now, 4 years later and armed with a…
Coury Turczyn
October 28, 2019
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Previewing the New Frontier of High-Performance Computing

In the main banquet room of Knoxville, Tennessee’s downtown Hilton Hotel, more than 150 scientists from around the world got their first peek at the exascale computing power that will become available for their research projects in two short years. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing…
Coury Turczyn
October 28, 2019
configurational ensemble (a collection of 3D structures) of an intrinsically disordered proteinScience

Titan Supercomputer and Spallation Neutron Source Unite to Probe the Inner Workings of c-Src kinase

Proteins are the workhorses of our body’s cells, performing vital functions we can’t live without—everything from helping form antibodies to transporting nutrients to providing structure for the cells themselves. The individual role of each protein can be determined by studying its unique three-dimensional structure. However, one particular class of protein…
Coury Turczyn
October 3, 2019