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News and Highlights from the OLCF

OLCF’s Ashley Barker Takes on New Role
11 months ago

OLCF’s Ashley Barker Takes on New Role

By  •  11 months ago  •  People

Ashley Barker, Operations Section head for the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), is taking on a new role in the procurement and deployment of the next supercomputer system at …
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U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE program seeks proposals for 2023
11 months ago

U.S. Department of Energy’s INCITE program seeks proposals for 2023

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is seeking proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array …
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New Deep Learning Techniques Lead to Materials Imaging Breakthrough
11 months ago

New Deep Learning Techniques Lead to Materials Imaging Breakthrough

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

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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Where Worlds Collide
11 months ago

Where Worlds Collide

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicists Christian Bauer, Marat Freytsis, and Benjamin Nachman have leveraged an IBM Q quantum computer through the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Quantum …
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Pioneering Frontier: Optimizing Materials Models
11 months ago

Pioneering Frontier: Optimizing Materials Models

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, People, Science

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 was delivered …
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Pioneering Frontier: Stepping Up CANDLE
12 months ago

Pioneering Frontier: Stepping Up CANDLE

By  •  12 months ago  •  Featured, People, Science

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 was delivered …
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Summit Fires up Predictive Breakthrough for Gas Turbines
12 months ago

Summit Fires up Predictive Breakthrough for Gas Turbines

By  •  12 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

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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Forging Ahead with Frontier: Ready to Crush Science
12 months ago

Forging Ahead with Frontier: Ready to Crush Science

By  •  12 months ago  •  Featured, Science

Computational users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) are running scientific codes on Frontier’s architecture in the form of a powerful test system at the OLCF called Crusher.


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International Volunteer Team of Researchers Launch Groundbreaking Workflows Community Platform
12 months ago

International Volunteer Team of Researchers Launch Groundbreaking Workflows Community Platform

By  •  12 months ago  •  Featured, People, Technology

A volunteer team of researchers led by Rafael Ferreira da Silva of the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Kyle Chard of the University of Chicago …
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From Summit to the Stars
1 year ago

From Summit to the Stars

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) wrapped up its 2021 hackathon with teams from around the globe working on projects that spanned the cosmos.

Ten teams with a total of …
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COVID-19 in the Classroom: Simulating the Spread
1 year ago

COVID-19 in the Classroom: Simulating the Spread

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Science

A team led by Rao Kotamarthi at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) is using supercomputers at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to study how …
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Super Simulations for Superconducting
1 year ago

Super Simulations for Superconducting

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Science

A study led by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to close in on the answer to a …
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Demystifying the World of High-Performance Computing
1 year ago

Demystifying the World of High-Performance Computing

By  •  1 year ago  •  People

A series of hands-on training seminars offered through the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility located at Oak Ridge National …
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Decoding the Role of CSB Protein in DNA Repair
1 year ago

Decoding the Role of CSB Protein in DNA Repair

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Science

Using the Summit supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a Georgia State University (GSU) research team has revealed the structural mechanism of the …
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Philip Roth Named General Chair for SC24
1 year ago

Philip Roth Named General Chair for SC24

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, People

Philip Roth, a group leader in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the general chair …
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Pioneering Frontier: Standing Up Exascale
1 year ago

Pioneering Frontier: Standing Up Exascale

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, People

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 was delivered …
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