5 months ago
OLCF Staff and Researchers Make a Smooth Transition to Working Remotely
When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) committed its IBM Power System AC922 Summit supercomputer to conducting open research in the fight against COVID-19, it …
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5 months ago
U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE program seeks proposals for 2021
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now seeking proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array …
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6 months ago
Summit Joins the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and the Summit supercomputer have joined forces with other U.S. Federal agencies, industry, and academic leaders to provide access to the world’s most powerful high-performance …
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6 months ago
OLCF Offers New Workload Capabilities with Slate Service
The large scientific simulations users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) run on the center’s IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer almost always require other attendant tasks to fully realize …
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6 months ago
New Job Step Viewer Tool Captures Job Launching on Summit
Before computational users launch large scientific jobs on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer, they need to understand how they will use the full power …
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6 months ago
ORNL Scientists Tap into AI to Put a New Spin on Neutron Experiments
Scientists seek to use quantum materials—those that have correlated order at the subatomic level—for electronic devices, quantum computers, and superconductors. Quantum materials owe many of their properties to the physics …
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6 months ago
COVID-19: OLCF Continues Normal Operations
The OLCF is operating on a normal schedule but is implementing measures to maximize social distancing. Staff who can telecommute are doing so and visitors to the laboratory are …
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7 months ago
ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit, to identify 77 small-molecule drug …
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7 months ago
Rethinking a Century of Fluid Flows
In 1922, English meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson published Weather Prediction by Numerical Analysis. This influential work included a few pages devoted to a phenomenological model that described the way that …
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7 months ago
“Bubbles” Demonstrates the Power of GPUs, Immersion Cooling
Two high school students from Knoxville’s L&N STEM Academy spent their internships at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developing Bubbles—a demonstration unit used to show …
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7 months ago
Simulating the Stars at Exascale Requires HIP Solutions
As GPU architectures have become the standard for scientific computing, application teams have had to retrofit their scientific codes to run on new systems. Even teams with codes that have …
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7 months ago
Machine Learning for Better Drug Design
When Harel Weinstein and his team at the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College (Weill Cornell Medicine) of Cornell University set out to learn the molecular mechanisms of drugs, …
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7 months ago
ORNL Project Demonstrates Viability of ‘Smart’ Traffic Cameras to Save Fuel
Each year, approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy …
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8 months ago
Closely Spaced Hydrogen Atoms Could Facilitate Superconductivity in Ambient Condition
By: Paul Boisvert, 502-229-4466, BoisvertPL@ornl.gov
An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for …
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8 months ago
Making room for Frontier
One of the challenges of cutting-edge equipment at a cutting-edge laboratory is that when a problem arises, the answers are never straightforward.
As the 2021 delivery date for Frontier — …
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8 months ago
Eight Teams Successfully Running on First NVIDIA and Arm Test Bed, Wombat at the OLCF
Alongside the regular high-performance computing (HPC) resources at supercomputing centers are test beds, small computing clusters that offer HPC experts a chance to explore new architectures before they are considered …
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