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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
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“Bubbles” Demonstrates the Power of GPUs, Immersion Cooling

Two high school students from Knoxville’s L&N STEM Academy spent their internships at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developing Bubbles—a demonstration unit used to show the potential of ORNL’s supercomputers and the future of computer cooling techniques. Logan O’Neal, a senior, and Tyler Duckworth, a…
Will Wells
March 5, 2020
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The Last User of Titan

Titan, the groundbreaking Cray XK7 supercomputer operated by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was officially decommissioned on August 1. The petascale machine ran countless simulations over its 7 years of service, and its sheer computational power…
Will Wells
January 2, 2020
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The OLCF to Mentor Interns Competing at SC19

This year, the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be hosting a team at the 13th Student Cluster Competition (SCC) in Denver, CO. Developed in 2007 and integrated within the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC Conference), the SCC gives undergraduate…
Will Wells
November 13, 2019
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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
Four of the seven featured ADW interns (left to right): Shuto Araki, Emily Costa, Yuya Kawakami, and Sajal Dash.People

Summer Interns Gain Hands-On Experience at Massive Scale

Each year, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) welcomes a new group of summer interns from a wide range of backgrounds. Through opportunities offered by the lab and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, these interns are given a unique educational and professional opportunity that introduces them…
Will Wells
August 29, 2019
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OLCF and Tech Company Providentia Worldwide Build Intelligence System for Supercomputer Cooling Plant

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) and technology consulting company Providentia Worldwide LLC recently collaborated to develop an intelligence system that combines real-time updates from the IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer with local weather and operational data from its adjacent cooling plant, with the goal of optimizing Summit’s energy efficiency.…
Katie Elyce Jones
July 31, 2019
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ORNL Teams Participate in CUG2019

This year’s Cray User Group meeting, an annual event that gives Cray users from around the world the opportunity to attend conferences and workshops and present papers relating to high-performance computing, was held this year in Montreal, Canada, from May 7 to 9. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) team…
Will Wells
June 28, 2019
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Jack Wells to Help Strengthen OpenACC User Community

On June 16, OpenACC.org announced that Jack Wells of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will serve as its newly elected vice president. Wells is currently the director of science for ORNL’s National Center for Computational Sciences, home of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. Wells will…
Will Wells
June 28, 2019
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Second “Introduce Your Daughter to AI” Event Is a Hit

The Women in Computing (WiC) networking group at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) hosted its second “Introduce Your Daughter to AI” workshop on June 7. With 31 ORNL employees attending with their daughters ages 12 to 17, this year’s event topped last year’s attendance…
Rachel McDowell
June 28, 2019
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NCCS Researchers Receive Award at Parallel Computing Symposium

A team of researchers from the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) received the “Best Paper” award in the Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM) workshop of the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium…
Will Wells
June 12, 2019
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15th OLCF User Meeting Looks to Future, Reflects on Past

In May, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), held its 15th annual user meeting—an event that focused on the past, present, and future of high-performance computing (HPC) at the OLCF. The meeting was held from May 21–23,…
Will Wells
June 12, 2019
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ORNL Staff Plug into Tech Day

Last month, the US Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Tech Day 2019 put federal agencies’ emerging technologies on display for the public, highlighting developments in 3D printing, cybersecurity, virtual reality, and more. Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) were among the participants in the…
Rachel McDowell
June 12, 2019
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Upgraded Science Trailer Teaches Students about Supercomputing

“What’s Your Problem?” This question, emblazoned on the side of a bright red trailer, invites students of all ages to step into the world of computational science. This mobile exhibit showcases the scientific and technological achievements made possible by past, present, and future supercomputers located at the US Department of…
Elizabeth Rosenthal
April 25, 2019
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OLCF Scientist Talks Early Summit Results at APS Meeting

The American Physical Society's "Quarks to the Cosmos" meeting took place April 13–16 in Denver. Bronson Messer, a computational scientist at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), gave an invited talk at the American Physical Society’s (APS’s) “Quarks to the Cosmos” April meeting in Denver, detailing his current work…
Rachel McDowell
April 25, 2019
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Adamson Named New Group Leader for HPC Core Ops

Ryan Adamson has been appointed group leader of the OLCF's HPC Core Ops. Image Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL Ryan Adamson, former senior high-performance computing (HPC) security engineer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), has been appointed group leader of the OLCF’s HPC Core Operations (HPC Core Ops) Group.…
Rachel McDowell
April 3, 2019