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OLCF News

News and Highlights from the OLCF

Peering into the Universe’s Dark Matter
3 months ago

Peering into the Universe’s Dark Matter

By  •  3 months ago  •  Featured, Science

A research team from the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit supercomputer to run one of the most complete cosmological …
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UnifyFS team wins IPDPS award for open-source software
3 months ago

UnifyFS team wins IPDPS award for open-source software

By  •  3 months ago  •  Science

A research team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories won the first Best Open-Source Contribution Award for its paper at the 37th IEEE International …
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Exascale blastoff
3 months ago

Exascale blastoff

By  •  3 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

With the world’s first exascale supercomputer now fully open for scientific business, researchers can thank the early users who helped get the machine up to speed.

Frontier set a new …
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Reaching a New Summit for Supernova Simulations
3 months ago

Reaching a New Summit for Supernova Simulations

By  •  3 months ago  •  Featured, Science

As a result of largescale 3D supernova simulations conducted on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit supercomputer by researchers from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge …
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GE Aerospace runs one of the world’s largest supercomputer simulations to test revolutionary new open fan engine architecture
3 months ago

GE Aerospace runs one of the world’s largest supercomputer simulations to test revolutionary new open fan engine architecture

By  •  3 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science
  • 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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Summit study fathoms troubled waters of ocean turbulence
4 months ago

Summit study fathoms troubled waters of ocean turbulence

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Simulations performed on the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed new insights into the role of turbulence in mixing fluids and could open new …
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Visionary report unveils ambitious roadmap to harness the power of AI in scientific discovery
4 months ago

Visionary report unveils ambitious roadmap to harness the power of AI in scientific discovery

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured

Innovations in artificial intelligence are rapidly shaping our world, from virtual assistants and chatbots to self-driving cars and automated manufacturing. Seizing on the potential of AI to transform science, the nation’s leading …
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LLNL’s Diachin takes helm of DOE’s Exascale Computing Project
4 months ago

LLNL’s Diachin takes helm of DOE’s Exascale Computing Project

By  •  4 months ago  •  Science

By Jeremy Thomas, LLNL

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Lori Diachin will take over as director of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project on June 1, guiding the successful, multi-institutional high-performance computing …
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Grid Modeling Tool Successfully Launches on World’s Fastest Supercomputer
4 months ago

Grid Modeling Tool Successfully Launches on World’s Fastest Supercomputer

By  •  4 months ago  •  Science

by Elsie Puig-Santana, PNNL

Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), a power grid simulation and optimization platform developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first of its kind to run on Oak …
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The NCCS’s Operational Orchestrator
4 months ago

The NCCS’s Operational Orchestrator

By  •  4 months ago  •  People

At the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), Ashley Barker enjoys one of the least complicated–sounding job titles at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National …
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The OLCF’s Matt Sieger Selected to Lead OLCF-6
4 months ago

The OLCF’s Matt Sieger Selected to Lead OLCF-6

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, People

by Rachel McDowell

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Matt Sieger has been named the project director for the OLCF-6 effort. This next OLCF undertaking will plan …
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Predicting the Future of Fission Power
4 months ago

Predicting the Future of Fission Power

By  •  4 months ago  •  Industry, Science, Technology

As renewable sources of energy such as wind and sun power are being increasingly added to the country’s electrical grid, old-fashioned nuclear energy is also being primed for …
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Early Frontier users seize exascale advantage, grapple with grand scientific challenges
4 months ago

Early Frontier users seize exascale advantage, grapple with grand scientific challenges

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Science

With the world’s first exascale supercomputing system now open to full user operations, research teams are harnessing Frontier’s power and speed to tackle some of the most challenging problems in …
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Learning with the flow
4 months ago

Learning with the flow

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

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 …
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Putting quantum circuits to the test
4 months ago

Putting quantum circuits to the test

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

Researchers used Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, to perform the first independent comparison test of leading quantum computers.

The study surveyed 24 quantum processors and …
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Best of 2023
5 months ago

Best of 2023

By  •  5 months ago  •  People

Paul Abston, leader of the HPC Infrastructure Operations Group of the National Center for Computational Sciences and manager of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s data center, has been named …
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