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Quantum Study Seeks to Solve Questions on Fluid Flow

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory tested a quantum computing approach to an old challenge: solving classical fluid dynamics problems. The study relied on support from the Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, part of ORNL’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The results highlight avenues for further study of quantum…
Matt LakinMatt LakinMarch 26, 20256 min
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Scientists Lay Out Vision for AI-Based ‘Labs of the Future’

A workshop led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory sketched a road map toward a longtime goal: development of autonomous, or self-driving, next-generation research laboratories. Scientists have dreamed for generations of high-tech laboratories operated via robotics at the push of a button.  Recent advancements in artificial intelligence…
Matt LakinMatt LakinFebruary 26, 20255 min
OLCF hackathons

The OLCF’s Problem Busters

Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his team of researchers at Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering were excited to bring their code into the new world of exascale-class supercomputing. The Multicomponent Flow Code, or MFC, originated in the early 2000s to model the simultaneous movements of gases and liquids as they…
Coury TurczynCoury TurczynFebruary 11, 202514 min

The OLCF’s 2024 in Review

High-performance computing pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in 2024, driving advancements across a range of disciplines. Partnerships with top academic, industrial and government institutions led to major contributions in fields such as quantum molecular mechanics and aviation. The year also saw groundbreaking research honored at leading conferences, underscoring the…
Angela GosnellAngela GosnellDecember 19, 20247 min

Summit Helps Veterans Affairs Connect Genetic Dots

To conduct a groundbreaking study of genetic data from more than half a million U.S. veterans, scientists needed tools of the kind found only at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "This particular study is probably the crown jewel of the field so far," said Ravi Madduri, a…
Matt LakinMatt LakinDecember 18, 20246 min
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ORNL Researchers Honored with Award for Best Event Report

A research collaboration between the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and several partner institutions was honored with the Best Event Report award at the 2024 International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events. The eighth annual conference for researchers, educators, professionals and event organizers in high-performance…
Angela GosnellAngela GosnellDecember 12, 20244 min

New Data Transfer Tool Developed at ORNL to Be Made Available for Public Use

Jake Wynne, an HPC storage systems engineer at ORNL, created the hsi_xfer tool to simplify the process of transferring large quantities of data. A new data transfer tool created at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility could be available to facilities nationwide after making its debut at the Department of…
Angela GosnellAngela GosnellDecember 4, 20245 min
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Gordon Bell Climate Prize Goes to KAUST Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator

The 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling has been awarded to a team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, who used the Frontier supercomputer to develop an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense…
Jeremy RumseyJeremy RumseyNovember 22, 20245 min
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Bigger, Faster, Smarter Genetics Research

A team of researchers used the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a new methodology for conducting a genome-wide association study, or GWAS, to earn a finalist nomination for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing,…
Coury TurczynCoury TurczynNovember 1, 20247 min

Goodbye HPSS, Hello Kronos

Users of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility are experiencing big changes with how their data is stored — in a good way. As the OLCF’s High Performance Storage System is to be decommissioned in early 2025 after decades of service, users are becoming familiar with Kronos, which is already proving its ease of use and…
Angela GosnellAngela GosnellOctober 22, 20245 min
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Standing up the Nation’s Supercomputing Pipeline for Streaming Big Data in Real Time

Big science generates big data. But what happens when researchers produce more data than they can process? It’s actually becoming a problem for research facilities that generate so much data that only supercomputers can tackle the volume. To bridge the gap between experimental facilities and supercomputers, experts from SLAC National…
Jeremy RumseyJeremy RumseyOctober 14, 202410 min
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Exascale’s New Frontier: CANDLE

PI: Rick Stevens Associate Laboratory Director, Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (1018) or more calculations per second. That leap meant rethinking,…
Coury TurczynCoury TurczynSeptember 4, 20248 min
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Exascale’s New Frontier: ExaWind

PI: Michael Sprague, National Renewable Energy Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to prepare advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of 1 quintillion or more calculations per second. That meant rethinking, reinventing and optimizing dozens of scientific applications and…
Jeremy RumseyJeremy RumseyJuly 29, 20246 min
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Exascale’s New Frontier: ADIOS

PI: Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (1018) or more calculations per second. That leap meant rethinking, reinventing, and optimizing dozens of scientific applications…
Coury TurczynCoury TurczynMay 20, 20247 min
AI

Going Big: World’s Fastest Computer Takes On Large Language Modeling

A team led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory explored training strategies for one of the largest artificial intelligence models to date with help from the world’s fastest supercomputer. The findings could help guide training for a new generation of AI models for scientific research.…
Matt LakinMatt LakinMay 14, 20247 min