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Fast-Tracking Medical Discovery

The world’s fastest supercomputer could help discover the next great cure hiding in plain sight. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used Frontier, the world’s first exascale computer, to scan hundreds of thousands of biomedical concepts from millions of scientific publications in search of potential…
Matt Lakin
October 25, 2022
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Exascale Day 2022

On October 18, the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is celebrating the fourth National Exascale Day. The holiday was created in 2019 as an initiative of DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, to honor scientists and researchers who will…
Betsy Sonewald
October 17, 2022
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2022 OLCF User Group Executive Board Election

Six candidates are running for three open positions on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) User Group (OUG) Executive Board. The OUG Executive Board represents the needs of users and provides feedback on services and resources to OLCF leadership. OLCF users are asked to vote for their top three…
William Renaud
October 17, 2022
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Spinning up Quantum Fidelity

Researchers reached new levels of accuracy in quantum simulations of spin defects using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Their work offers a potential step toward greater precision and reliability in computations on quantum…
Matt Lakin
October 3, 2022
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New Storage System Complements Existing Capabilities at the OLCF

Users of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) computing systems will soon have access to a new data storage system managed by the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). Themis, an IBM Spectrum Archive storage system, will offer users a flexible storage option in the Open security enclave and expand the…
Betsy Sonewald
September 20, 2022
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Lab Experiments Support the COVID-19 Bradykinin Storm Theory

A new paper published in Nature Communications adds further evidence to the bradykinin storm theory of COVID-19’s viral pathogenesis—a theory that was posited 2 years ago by a team of researchers led by Systems Biologist Dan Jacobson at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). At…
Coury Turczyn
September 14, 2022
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OLCF researchers win R&D 100 award

A team that includes researchers from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility recently received an R&D 100 Award for their work on Flash-X, a multiphysics simulation software package with applications that include modeling the collapse and explosion of a massive star core, better known as a supernova. Flash-X was developed…
Matt Lakin
September 8, 2022
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OLCF, ECMWF Accepting Proposals for New Virtual Hackathon

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), in partnership with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is accepting proposals for the 2022 Integrated Forecast System (IFS) Experimental Nature Run (NR) Data Hackathon, a virtual hackathon open to teams around the world. Teams will have unprecedented access to a…
Betsy Sonewald
July 29, 2022
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TRITON: A Powerful Toolkit for Modern Flood Modeling

A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tennessee Technological University have created a 2D, open-source flood inundation model designed for a multiarchitecture computing system. The Two-dimensional Runoff Inundation Toolkit for Operational Needs, or TRITON, can use multiple graphics processing units, or GPUs, to…
Betsy Sonewald
July 25, 2022
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Pioneering Frontier: Automating at Exascale

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 was delivered in 2021, with full user operations expected in 2022. Rafael Ferreira da Silva’s job is to make life simple—at least for…
Betsy Sonewald
July 25, 2022
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ECP Advances the Science of Atmospheric Convection Modeling

Researchers supported by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have integrated the promising super-parameterization technique for modeling moist convection into the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), which is a global climate modeling, simulation, and prediction project being developed by DOE. This method enables E3SM to significantly…
Coury Turczyn
July 5, 2022
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Weaving wonders

Ounce for ounce, carbon fiber could quickly become the wonder material of the future. The material, already used in a variety of products, boasts densities comparable to plastic, strengths comparable to steel and versatilities comparable to rubber under the right conditions. Its fibers, spun from organic carbon polymer strands thinner…
Matt Lakin
June 14, 2022
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Speeding up simulations

Artificial intelligence has transformed industrial research and development in recent decades during what scientists call "the AI revolution." The technology enables detailed simulations and high-speed modeling that can streamline the journey from drawing board to production line by speeding up or cutting out costly, time-consuming steps to a practical working…
Matt Lakin
June 13, 2022
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Pushing the new Frontier

The numbers are in, Frontier ranks No. 1, and the researchers of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's National Center for Computational Sciences are finally breathing a few sighs of relief. Teams worked around the clock for months to help prepare the new HPE Cray EX supercomputer and gauge its record-setting exascale…
Matt Lakin
June 8, 2022
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Layered Perovskite Power

Using the Summit supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have confirmed and explained the results of an experiment to synthesize a new crystalline material that may hold promising applications. Composed of alternating atomic layers of…
Coury Turczyn
May 12, 2022
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Register for Lustre User Group Virtual Conference 2022

Registration is open for the 2022 Lustre User Group (LUG22) conference, "the high-performance computing industry's primary venue for discussion on the open-source Lustre file system and other technologies." The annual conference will welcome experts from the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and around the world to discuss the latest…
Betsy Sonewald
May 4, 2022