Crash Course at OLCF Trains Next Generation of Supercomputing Researchers
The OLCF recently held a “Crash Course in Supercomputing” for approximately 60 summer interns to provide an overview of concepts and techniques in high-performance computing.
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MADNESS Named R&D 100 Winner
OLCF researchers a part of team recognized for work on software package
A team led by ORNL’s Robert Harrison has been awarded an R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine.
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Jaguar Users Receive HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Mike Henderson, CEO of BMI Corporation and Smart Truck, was announced as one of nine winners of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, given to organizations achieving an important, quantifiable achievement with the help of high-performance computing.
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New Director of Science Named at the OLCF
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) hasannounced that Jack Wells will take over as the organization’s new Director of Science effective July 1, 2011.
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DOE Recognizes OLCF Outstanding Mentors
The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded OLCF staff members James Rogers and Bobby Whitten with Outstanding Mentor Awards.
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OLCF Experts Teach and Learn at Cray User Group
Members of the OLCF staff joined high-performance computing professionals from around the U.S. for the 2011 Cray User Group (CUG) meeting held in Fairbanks, AK, May 23-26.
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Packing the ions
Discovery boosts supercapacitor energy storage
Flat is in the eye of the beholder.
When you’re talking about nanomaterials, however, that eye is pretty much useless unless it’s looking through an …
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Researchers Pinpoint How Copper Folds Protein into Precursors of Parkinson’s Plaques
Calculations on the Jaguar supercomputer reveal metal binding likely to misfold alpha-synuclein
Aided by the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), researchers at North Carolina State University have …
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Designing a Smart Truck with the Power of Jaguar: A Case Study
Jaguar helps allow BMI to complete the modeling phase of the Smart Truck project approximately ten times faster than otherwise possible.
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Rig on a roll
Computer modelling is being used to improve the airflow around big trucks and reduce their fuel consumption.
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ORNL Helps Organize First SciDAC Software Workshop
Independent software developers are introduced to SciDAC tools and applications to aid in the transition to multicore systems
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The Curious Case of Germanium-72
There’s a lot we don’t know about the atomic nucleus, even though it was discovered a century ago this year.
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Chemistry and Materials Simulations Speed Clean Energy Production and Storage
Chemistry and materials science simulations made possible through Robert Harrison’s INCITE project have generated 70 scientific publications since 2008.
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2012 INCITE Call for Proposals
On April 13, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that proposals are now being accepted for the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, which supports …
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Venerable Early Jaguar System Retires
Once the second most powerful supercomputer in the world, the Cray XT4 Jaguar was decommissioned March 8.
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Spring Training Workshop Arms Users with Supercomputing Skills
The four-day event, the 2011 OLCF Spring Training, had courses for novices and supercomputing veterans alike.
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