Summit’s Bonus Year of Scientific Achievement
Leadership-class supercomputers dedicated to open science are not built to last forever. In fact, they have a limited lifespan by design. No matter how powerful they may be on launch day, advancements in computing technology and changing computing needs will push them closer to obsolescence with each passing year until…
Coury TurczynDecember 3, 202415 min
Flying Quieter and Cleaner
From a nondescript industrial building in the small town of Crossville, Tennessee, the team of engineers at Whisper Aero is planning a revolution in aviation technology. Previously home to a publisher of magazines — including, coincidentally, Trade-A-Plane, an airplane sales publication started in 1937 — the long-empty property’s cavernous spaces…
Coury TurczynAugust 12, 202415 min
Planning for a Smooth Landing on Mars
A U.S. mission to land astronauts on the surface of Mars will be unlike any other extraterrestrial landing ever undertaken by NASA. Although the space agency has successfully landed nine robotic missions on Mars since its first surface missions in 1976 with the Viking Project, safely bringing humans to Mars…
Coury TurczynFebruary 29, 20249 min
Exascale’s New Frontier: Combustion-Pele
PI: Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories 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 meant rethinking, reinventing, and optimizing dozens of scientific applications and software…
Matt LakinJanuary 5, 20246 minExascale’s New Frontier: MFIX-Exa
PI: Jordan M. Musser, National Energy Technology Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project 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 and…
Coury TurczynOctober 19, 20235 min
Learning With the Flow
The bigger the swirl, the bigger the problem — and the bigger the computing power needed to solve it. Computational fluid dynamics researchers have spent decades studying how liquids and gases flow in and around such machinery as airplane wings, propeller blades and jet engines in search of faster speeds…
Matt LakinMay 19, 20239 min
NREL, GE Research Team Find Critical Adjustments To Improve Wind Turbine Design
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), behave in powerful and complex ways that can impact numerous American lives and livelihoods. Winds that blow along the U.S.…
Katie BetheaApril 14, 20238 min
Pioneering Frontier: Keeping the Power On
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 is scheduled for delivery in 2021, with full user operations in 2022. Electrical Engineering Specialist Rick Griffin had just powered up his…
Coury TurczynMarch 31, 20219 min
A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit
Turbulence, the state of disorderly fluid motion, is a scientific puzzle of great complexity. Turbulence permeates many applications in science and engineering, including combustion, pollutant transport, weather forecasting, astrophysics, and more. One of the challenges facing scientists who simulate turbulence lies in the wide range of scales they must capture…
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 13, 20197 min
Farewell, Titan
The Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer operated by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be decommissioned on August 1 and disassembled for recycling. Performing up to 27 quadrillion calculations per second, Titan ranked as one of the…
Katie Elyce JonesJune 28, 20198 min
Faces of Summit: Building a Better Summit
The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s top supercomputer for open science, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit. The IBM AC922 machine launched in June 2018. When the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) newest supercomputer, Summit, comes on line in 2018 at the…
Katie Elyce JonesFebruary 27, 20188 min
Faces of Summit: Making Spaces
Bart Hammontree began working as a subcontractor at ORNL in 1992. Now serving in a full-time position as a member of the UT-Battelle Development Corporation, Hammontree has overseen construction and retrofit projects both small and large in scope. The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s…
Josh CunninghamOctober 19, 20177 min
OLCF Contributes to ORNL–UT Data Center Boot Camp
Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosted a boot camp in conjunction with the University of Tennessee’s Reliability and Maintainability Center within the College of Engineering.
Elizabeth RosenthalOctober 18, 20164 min
One Billion Processor Hours Awarded to 22 Projects through ALCC
ALCC’s mission is to provide high-performance computing resources to projects that align with DOE’s broad energy mission, with an emphasis on high-risk, high-return simulations. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded nearly 1 billion processor hours to 22 projects at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility…
Maleia WoodJuly 5, 20166 min
Titan Goes on Tour
OLCF staff helped unveil ORNL’s Traveling Science Fair supercomputing exhibit at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington DC.
Jonathan HinesMay 10, 20164 min