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ORNL Staffers Create a Buzz at Grace Hopper Conference

Women from all over the world united at the 22nd annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC), presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology and the Association for Computing Machinery. This year 14 women from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) attended the conference to…
Rachel McDowell
December 7, 2016
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OLCF Staff Members Lead HPC Sessions at 2016 Tapia Conference

This fall, OLCF Staff members attended the 2016 Association for Computing Machinery’s Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference. Pictured here are (left to right) Verónica Vergara Larrea, Bradley Szallar, Professor Richard A. Tapia, Kate Carter, and Adam Simpson. Last month staff members from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing…
Rachel McDowell
November 29, 2016
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Experts Converge on ORNL for US-Japan Fusion Workshop

For nearly 40 years the United States and Japan have collaborated on making the dream of limitless clean energy a reality. In 1980 the two countries created the US-Japan Joint Institute for Fusion Theory (JIFT) to formalize this collaboration. Since that time researchers from both countries have organized workshops to…
Eric Gedenk
November 29, 2016
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OLCF User Support Specialist Receives YWCA Award Nomination

Each fall the YWCA in Knoxville, Tennessee, holds its annual Tribute to Women gala to recognize women in the community who have demonstrated the values of the organization: encouraging diversity, advocating for racial justice, and empowering women. This year Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) User Support Specialist Suzanne Parete-Koon was chosen as a…
Rachel McDowell
October 18, 2016
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OLCF’s Anantharaj Shares HPC Knowledge at Summer School

A total of 45 students participated in the 2016 International Summer School on Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ISSAOS), titled “Advanced Programming Techniques for the Earth System Science.” Six continents were represented both in person and remotely, as all the summer school materials—lectures, workshop examples, and tutorial information—were also offered online…
Rachel McDowell
October 18, 2016
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CSGF Annual Program Review Brings Staff and Students Together

OLCF Staff members (left to right) Verónica Vergara Larrea, Adam Simpson, and Judy Hill presented at the poster session during the 2016 CSGF Annual Program Review. For the sixth year in a row, staff from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) networked with promising graduate fellows and introduced them…
Rachel McDowell
September 6, 2016
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OLCF Staff Engage at International Supercomputing Conference

ISC has been bringing HPC experts together for 30 years, and OLCF staff always look for ways to take leadership roles at the conference. For more than 30 years, high-performance computing (HPC) experts from around the world have gathered to share supercomputing ideas, insights, and innovations at the International Supercomputing…
Eric Gedenk
September 6, 2016
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Directorate’s Daughters Run Code on Titan at WiC Event

Staff from the CCSD coded with their daughters at the inaugural Introduce Your Daughter to Code event hosted by WiC. Among the participants were (front row, left to right) Jayden Ellis, Brett Ellis, and Abigail Ellis; (back row, left to right) Edmon Begoli and Anastasia M. Begoli. In July, Women…
Rachel McDowell
August 16, 2016
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Summer Interns’ Innovations Benefit OLCF and Beyond

OLCF 2016 summer interns include (front row, left to right) Michaela Vaitova, Luna Xu, Jeffrey Graves, Duane Vick, Arghya Chatterjee, Lechen Yu, Joseph Huber, andHyogi Sim; (second row, left to right) Alexander Walker, Sarah Neuwirth, Woong Shin, Sisi Xiong, Peter Xenopoulos, Wei Xie, Marshall “Drew” Cage, Oumar Diallo, Aaron Barlow,…
Rachel McDowell
July 26, 2016
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OLCF Staff Inspire Innovation at Bay Area Maker Faire

OLCF User Support Specialist Adam Simpson explains how Tiny Titan works during the 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire, which ran May 20–22 in San Francisco. OLCF staff modified Tiny Titan to take advantage of Leap Motion sensors that allowed students to control the simulation by using their hands. In 2006,…
Eric Gedenk
July 26, 2016
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OLCF Experts Lead and Learn at Cray User Group Meeting

ORNL and the OLCF once again took leadership roles at the annual CUG, which took place this spring in London, England. The technical conference brought users and administrators of Cray supercomputers, such as the OLCF’s Titan, to exchange expertise and experiences through a variety of events. The US Department of…
Miki Nolin
July 26, 2016
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Wells Brings HPC Expertise to Seismology Meeting

By attending such meetings as that of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, OLCF Director of Science Jack Wells can network with prospective OLCF users. Jack Wells, director of science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science…
Maleia Wood
July 5, 2016
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Accelerating Codes at University of Delaware Hackathon

The University of Delaware hosted this year’s second OLCF-involved hackathon, where programmers from national laboratories, universities, and vendors gather to share application GPU portability expertise and learn how to program for a hybrid CPU–GPU machine like the OLCF’s Titan supercomputer.
Miki Nolin
June 14, 2016