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About OLCF
- - ORNL’s supercomputing program grew from humble beginnings to deliver the most powerful system ever seen. On the way, it has helped researchers deliver practical breakthroughs and new scientific knowledge in climate, materials, nuclear science, and a wide range of other disciplines.
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OLCF Resources
- - Learn more about the OLCF’s comprehensive suite of hardware and software resources for the creation, manipulation, and retention of scientific data. For User support in using these resources, please visit the For Users section of this website.
- - Compute Systems
- - Data & Visualization Resources
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R&D Activities
- - Learn more about the OLCF’s comprehensive suite of hardware and software resources for the creation, manipulation, and retention of scientific data. Please note that the For Users section of this website provides extensive information on accessing and employing these resources.
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Science at OLCF
- - The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) engages a world-class team from national laboratories, research institutions, computing centers, universities, and vendors to take a dramatic step forward to field a new capability for high-end science.
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- - Contact Support
    
    Need assistance from a trained OLCF support staff member? We're here to help.
    
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    Status Tweets: @olcfstatus
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Weekly Update: February 24, 2021

3 years ago •

Meetings & Workshops
  – February OLCF User Conference Call is Today (Feb 24)
  – OLCF @ SIAM CSE21
  – 2021 GPU Hackathons

Upcoming Scheduled Outages
– None through Mar 5

Meetings & Workshops

February OLCF User Conference Call (Feb 24)
The February OLCF User Conference Call will be held at noon (Eastern Time) today (Wednesday, February 24). The training topic for this call is “OLCF Best Practices/OLCF Overview for New Users” and will be led by several OLCF staff members. Details of the call including connection information are available at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/calendar/userconcall-feb2021/.

OLCF @ SIAM CSE21
Are you attending SIAM CSE21? Join the OLCF at the following events:

On March 3, 2021, the OLCF will participating in the SIAM CSE21 Virtual Career Fair. For more information and to register, please see https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/program/career-fair/cse21-career-fair
On March 4, 2021, as part of the Broader Engagement (BE) program at SIAM CSE21, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) will hold a hands-on minitutorial with the Summit supercomputer for conference attendees. Participants will learn about the Summit architecture, learn how research teams write programs for and run workloads on Summit, and get to work through fun challenge problems on their own on the Ascent training system. he deadline to pre-register has passed but if you would still like to attend, please contact Tom Papatheodore (papatheodore@ornl.gov) by Friday, February 26. For more information, please see: https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/program/minitutorials/cse21-minitutorials.

2021 GPU Hackathons
The 2021 NVIDIA GPU Hackathon series is now open. Events that will be supported by the OLCF (computing resources, mentors, etc.) are marked with the OLCF logo at https://www.gpuhackathons.org/events. The next two OLCF-supported (virtual) hackathons will be:

– San Diego Supercomputer Center on May 4, 11-13 (deadline to apply is March 4)
– Princeton University on June 2, 8-10 (deadline to apply is March 12)

Upcoming Scheduled Outages

There are no outages scheduled through Friday, March 5.