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News and Highlights from the OLCF

Simulating a More Detailed Universe with Frontier
5 months ago

Simulating a More Detailed Universe with Frontier

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, Science

A trio of new and improved cosmological simulation codes was unveiled in a series of presentations at the annual April Meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis, …
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NREL, GE Research Team Find Critical Adjustments To Improve Wind Turbine Design
6 months ago

NREL, GE Research Team Find Critical Adjustments To Improve Wind Turbine Design

By  •  6 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

By Brooke Van Zandt, NREL Originally posted by NREL: NREL, GE Research Team Find Critical Adjustments To Improve Wind Turbine Design

 

Low-level jet streams, also known as low-level jets (LLJs), …
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U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE program seeks proposals for 2024 to advance science and engineering at U.S. leadership computing facilities
6 months ago

U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE program seeks proposals for 2024 to advance science and engineering at U.S. leadership computing facilities

By  •  6 months ago  •  Featured, Science

Katie Bethea Oak Ridge National Laboratory, betheakl@ornl.gov Beth Cerny Argonne National Laboratory, bcerny@anl.gov

 

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and …
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Forging a file system
6 months ago

Forging a file system

By  •  6 months ago  •  Featured, People, Science

Imagine solving the greatest scientific question of the era but having no way to save your answer.

No need to fear, thanks to Dustin Leverman and his team. Leverman leads …
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UTK-ORNL Course is Teaching Next Generation of Data Center Designers
7 months ago

UTK-ORNL Course is Teaching Next Generation of Data Center Designers

By  •  7 months ago  •  People

What do you learn in a supercomputing data center course that has almost nothing to do with supercomputers? If you take the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s (UTK’s) Data Center Design …
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ORNL Supercomputing Resources Support Simulation of Influenza Virus Showing Universal Vaccine Promise
7 months ago

ORNL Supercomputing Resources Support Simulation of Influenza Virus Showing Universal Vaccine Promise

By  •  7 months ago  •  Featured, Science

According to the World Health Organization, each year influenza infects an estimated 1 billion people worldwide. Between 3 and 5 million of these cases are severe, and up …
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Autocoding Cancer
8 months ago

Autocoding Cancer

By  •  8 months ago  •  Featured, Science

An algorithm developed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is speeding up classification, or coding, of …
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The Most Advanced Bay Area Earthquake Simulations Will be Publicly Available
8 months ago

The Most Advanced Bay Area Earthquake Simulations Will be Publicly Available

By  •  8 months ago  •  Featured, Science

By Aliyah Kovner, Berkeley Lab

Accurately modeling the effects of an earthquake is possible, but it requires intricate physics-based models that can only be run on advanced supercomputers. The data …
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Computational Study Finds Genetic Links, Therapy Targets for Varicose Veins
8 months ago

Computational Study Finds Genetic Links, Therapy Targets for Varicose Veins

By  •  8 months ago  •  Featured, Science

Media Contact: Stephanie G Seay

As part of a multi-institutional research project, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory leveraged their computational systems biology expertise and the …
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OLCF’s 2022 User Meeting Held Virtually on Heels of Frontier Launch
10 months ago

OLCF’s 2022 User Meeting Held Virtually on Heels of Frontier Launch

By  •  10 months ago  •  Events

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), hosted its …
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Supercomputers Lead to Super Learning Experiences
10 months ago

Supercomputers Lead to Super Learning Experiences

By  •  10 months ago  •  Science

The Pathways to Computing Internship Program is accepting applications for 2023. For information on the program or to apply, visit https://education.ornl.gov/pathways/.

Summer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is usually a …
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The Climate in a Container
10 months ago

The Climate in a Container

By  •  10 months ago  •  Science

Successfully running a simulation program on a supercomputer requires more than just writing code. An application such as a climate model requires libraries, network support, and the correct operating environment. …
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Data Transfer Tool Makes New Connections at ORNL
10 months ago

Data Transfer Tool Makes New Connections at ORNL

By  •  10 months ago  •  People, Science, Technology

Data is the fuel that propels scientific research, and fortunately for scientists, there is no shortage of data in the modern world—a single scientific instrument can produce terabytes of data. …
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Secure Science with CITADEL
10 months ago

Secure Science with CITADEL

By  •  10 months ago  •  Science

A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) used the CITADEL security framework to securely transfer and analyze veterans’ health records on …
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Exascale acceleration
11 months ago

Exascale acceleration

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Just how fast can the world’s fastest supercomputer go? Maybe even faster than imagined.

Researchers studying plasma physics for particle accelerators recently used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Frontier …
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Plasma Simulation Code Wins 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize
11 months ago

Plasma Simulation Code Wins 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Technology

A 16-member team of researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) won the …
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