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News and Highlights from the OLCF

Forging a file system
1 day ago

Forging a file system

By  •  1 day 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
4 weeks ago

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

By  •  4 weeks 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
1 month ago

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

By  •  1 month 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
2 months ago

Autocoding Cancer

By  •  2 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
2 months ago

The Most Advanced Bay Area Earthquake Simulations Will be Publicly Available

By  •  2 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
2 months ago

Computational Study Finds Genetic Links, Therapy Targets for Varicose Veins

By  •  2 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
4 months ago

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

By  •  4 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
4 months ago

Supercomputers Lead to Super Learning Experiences

By  •  4 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
4 months ago

The Climate in a Container

By  •  4 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
4 months ago

Data Transfer Tool Makes New Connections at ORNL

By  •  4 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
4 months ago

Secure Science with CITADEL

By  •  4 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
4 months ago

Exascale acceleration

By  •  4 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
4 months ago

Plasma Simulation Code Wins 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize

By  •  4 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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Charting the new Frontier
4 months ago

Charting the new Frontier

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, OLCF History, Science

The Frontier supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory logged a new benchmark this week that further illustrates its world-changing potential and held onto its top ranking as …
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INCITE program awards supercomputing time to 56 projects to accelerate science and engineering research
5 months ago

INCITE program awards supercomputing time to 56 projects to accelerate science and engineering research

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, Science

MEDIA CONTACTS: Julie Parente Argonne National Laboratory, jparente@anl.gov Katie Bethea Oak Ridge National Laboratory, betheakl@ornl.gov

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to …
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Predicting Protein Targets and the Molecules that Bind with Them
5 months ago

Predicting Protein Targets and the Molecules that Bind with Them

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, Technology

When the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill in 2020, pharmaceutical companies countered with remarkable speed to develop mRNA vaccines by the end of that year. …
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