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Faces of Summit: Modeling Safety

Paul Abston, the safety and installation manager of the Summit supercomputer, brings more than 20 years of experience as a safety professional to the job. The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s top supercomputer for open science, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit. The…
Jonathan Hines
November 28, 2017
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Teams Gear up for Summit at Fourth Annual GPU Hackathon

At the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) fourth annual GPU Hackathon, event programmers again successfully adapted their applications for GPU architectures. The 5-day event at the Hilton in Knoxville, Tennessee, took place the week of October 9 during the installation of the OLCF’s next flagship supercomputer, Summit. The event drew…
Rachel McDowell
November 28, 2017
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Conferences Promote Greater Diversity in HPC

This fall, OLCF staff members provided information, presentations, and recruitment opportunities to those attending the Grace Hopper Celebration 2017. Pictured here are (from left to right standing) Sophie Voisin, Adam Carlyle, Ashleigh Barnes, Jayson Hines, Kate Carter and (from left to right sitting) Drahomira Herrmannova, Sarah powers, Catherine Schuman, Laura…
Josh Cunningham
November 28, 2017
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OLCF Postdoc Fuses the Gap Between Experiment and Computation

Ada Sedova, a postdoctoral research associate at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), develops computational calculations for supercomputing codes. In front of the OLCF’s Titan supercomputer, Sedova displays a spectrum from her experimental work, measuring the vibrational frequency of nucleobases (bases of DNA and RNA) at the Spallation Neutron…
Katie Elyce Jones
October 31, 2017
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Faces of Summit: Making Spaces

Bart Hammontree began working as a subcontractor at ORNL in 1992. Now serving in a full-time position as a member of the UT-Battelle Development Corporation, Hammontree has overseen construction and retrofit projects both small and large in scope. The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s…
Josh Cunningham
October 19, 2017
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OLCF Provides Research Opportunities, HPC Experience for Postdocs

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is charged with a broad task: to develop and apply computational science capabilities that address some of the world’s most pressing concerns. To accomplish this task, the OLCF needs staff members…
Josh Cunningham
September 19, 2017
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Summer Internships Offer Students Hands-On Experience, Mentorship

OLCF interns are serving in programming, communications, and operations positions, and more. Since 1946, Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have partnered to provide internships in subject areas ranging from climate research to nuclear nonproliferation policy. In these 71 years,…
Josh Cunningham
August 9, 2017
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OLCF Hosts CUDA Workshop for GPU Programming

A recent OLCF-hosted workshop, “Introduction to CUDA C/C++,” gave 40 students, interns, and researchers at ORNL a taste of lower-level programming on a GPU architecture. The 18,688 NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators in Titan, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) flagship supercomputer, can greatly boost code performance. Researchers interested in…
Rachel McDowell
August 9, 2017
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OLCF Staff Reach Students through Coding Events

Daughters of ORNL staff members display their fractals on the visualization wall in the Exploratory Visualization Environment for Research in Science and Technology, or EVEREST. Pictured here are the girls with staff volunteers (front row, left to right) Ashley Nguyen, Dasha Herrmannova, Megan Bradley, Katherine Engstrom, Kate Carter, Anne Berres,…
Rachel McDowell
July 18, 2017
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Annual User Meeting Spotlights Titan, Summit, and Deep Learning

One hundred twenty-three Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) users and staff members attended the annual OLCF User Meeting in May to share achievements on Titan, discuss the next big Summit supercomputer, and delve into deep learning concepts. The event, held May 23–25 at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak…
Rachel McDowell
June 27, 2017
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OLCF Brings Petascale Computing to 2017 APS March Meeting

National Center for Computational Sciences Director of Science Jack Wells co-organized a focus session called “Computational Physics at the Petascale and Beyond” at the APS March Meeting 2017 to bring high-performance computing topics to the largest gathering of physicists in the world. For staff at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing…
Rachel McDowell
May 9, 2017
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OLCF Conference Calls Equip Users with System Knowledge

OLCF staff members led an Introduction to VisIt conference call, which taught users about the open source visualization and animation tool VisIt. Pictured here are (left, front to back) Dave Pugmire, Sherry Ray, and Bill Renaud with (right, front to back) Chris Fuson, Suzanne Parete-Koon, and Ashley Barker. Need support?…
Rachel McDowell
April 18, 2017
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Building the Bridge to Exascale

At the Exascale Computing Project’s (ECP’s) annual meeting in February 2017, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) staff discussed OLCF resources that could be leveraged for ECP research and development, including the facility’s next flagship supercomputer, Summit, expected to go online in 2018. Building an exascale computer—a machine that could…
Katie Elyce Jones
April 17, 2017
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OLCF-Connected Team Wins Best Paper at Industrial Conference

Researchers using the OLCF’s computational resources to simulate subsurface flows were recently awarded best paper at the 31st annual International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts meeting. Image courtesy of SPWLA, Ryan Armstrong, Maja Rücker, Steffen Schlüter, James McClure, and Mark Berrill For several years, a team led by…
Eric Gedenk
February 28, 2017
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Mini Hackathon Offers Shorter Schedule, Introductory Focus

In November, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) hosted its first 3-day mini GPU Hackathon, an extension of the center’s annual 5-day GPU Hackathon, which began in 2014. The mini hackathon took place November 1–3 at the Crowne Plaza in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was open to the public. “The…
Katie Elyce Jones
January 4, 2017
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OLCF Staff Give Students Hands-On Training with UT Data Center Course

Managing, moving, and securely storing data are becoming ubiquitous parts of many industries. As more industries continue to modernize, the demand for experts in data center management will only continue to grow. To proactively address this issue, experts at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of…
Eric Gedenk
December 7, 2016