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ORNL Resources Help BigNeuron Tackle Grand Challenges

In November 2015, BigNeuron researchers gathered at ORNL for a hackathon to scale up their algorithms and port data to the Titan supercomputer. This year data generated from the project is being transferred to CADES for public access. Like energetic children, computational scientists need large spaces to play. This play…
Jonathan Hines
January 31, 2017
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Longtime User Requests Added to Next Version of OpenACC

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has helped lead many developments in parallel programming during the operation of its 27-petaflop Titan supercomputer, the first of its magnitude to use GPU accelerators for scientific computing. The OLCF is a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located…
Katie Elyce Jones
January 31, 2017
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OLCF Active in New User-Oriented OpenSFS

File and Storage System Team Lead Sarp Oral (second from left) poses with other OpenSFS officers (left to right) Shawn Hall of BP, Stephen Simms of Indiana University, Rick Wagner of Globus, and Stephen Monk of Sandia National Laboratories. As a longtime Lustre user, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility…
Jonathan Hines
January 4, 2017
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ORNL–Oracle Collaboration Offers Data Safeguard

ORNL recently partnered with Oracle to test some of the database technology company’s new firmware. Pictured here: Quinn Mitchell, high-performance computing storage system administrator at the OLCF, with the OLCF’s tape libraries. Image Credit: Rachel McDowell, ORNL The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently partnered with Oracle to test some…
Rachel McDowell
January 4, 2017
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CAAR Team Members Test Compilers for Summit at IBM Hackathon

Former OLCF Postdoctoral Researcher and current NVIDIA Solutions Architect Tom Papatheodore (left) and OLCF Tools Developer Oscar Hernandez (right) attended an IBM hackathon for OpenMP 4.5 with Lixiang Luo (center), an IBM research staff member at the IBM/NVIDIA Center of Excellence at ORNL, to test compilers for Summit, the OLCF’s…
Rachel McDowell
December 7, 2016
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OLCF-Fermilab Collaboration Gives ADIOS a Boost

Researchers at US Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories frequently transfer files between experimental and observational facilities, their home institutions, and computational facilities like the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Moving large files between…
Rachel McDowell
September 28, 2016
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OLCF Dives into Deep Learning

The Deep Learning Users Group, organized by the OLCF’s Advanced Data and Workflow Group, gathered this summer to discuss topics related to deep learning, a fast-growing offshoot of machine learning with potential for automating knowledge discovery. Though they sprout from the same family tree, scientific computing and artificial intelligence (AI)…
Jonathan Hines
September 6, 2016