3 months ago
Exascale drives industry innovation for a better future
By Caryn Meissner, ECP contributing writer
Outside the high-performance computing, or HPC, community, exascale may seem more like fodder for science fiction than a powerful tool for scientific research. …
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6 months ago
GE Aerospace runs one of the world’s largest supercomputer simulations to test revolutionary new open fan engine architecture
- GE Aerospace is first business to use the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier supercomputer, the world’s fastest supercomputer
- Frontier can process billions …
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8 months ago
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), …
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1 year ago
Speeding up simulations
Artificial intelligence has transformed industrial research and development in recent decades during what scientists call “the AI revolution.” The technology enables detailed simulations and high-speed modeling that can streamline the …
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2 years ago
New Deep Learning Techniques Lead to Materials Imaging Breakthrough
Supercomputers help researchers study the causes and effects—usually in that order—of complex phenomena. However, scientists occasionally need to deduce the origins of scientific phenomena based on observable results. These so-called …
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2 years ago
Summit Fires up Predictive Breakthrough for Gas Turbines
Gas-fired turbines keep electric generators humming around the world, from power plants and factories to hospitals and universities. But the combustion process that fuels these engines comes with a billion-dollar-a-year …
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2 years ago
Pioneering Frontier: Meeting Industry at Scale
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 …
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2 years ago
GE Spins up Supercomputer Models to Zero in on Energy Loss in Turbines
High-pressure turbines are complex pieces of engineering and vital components of gas turbines used to propel jet engines. The more efficient these jet engines are, the better the outcomes for …
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3 years ago
Sparks Fly in Marriage of GE’s GENESIS Code and the Summit Supercomputer
General Electric (GE)—a company well-known for its contributions to aviation, power, renewable energy, and more—aims to design gas turbine jet engines that are world leading in efficiency, emissions, and durability. …
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4 years ago
Record-Breaking Year for OLCF GPU Hackathons Ends with Annual Knoxville, Tennessee, Event
In late October, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) wrapped up its 2019 hackathon series with an event hosted at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, that …
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4 years ago
GPUs Power GE Code at OLCF Hackathons
The ability to simulate turbulent phenomena using high-performance computing (HPC) can provide industry with important insights for efficient engine design. Second only to the ability to perform these critical simulations …
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5 years ago
Pinnacle Engines Develops Efficient, Low-Emission Gasoline Engine Using Supercomputing
The Pinnacle Engines opposed-piston cylinder shown in three different views. Visualizations illustrate the generation of coherent flow structures and their collapse during the compression stroke, which leads to …
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