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Supercomputers help optimize engines, turbines, and other technologies for clean energy

Air and fuel mix violently during turbulent combustion. The ferocious mixing needed to ignite fuel and sustain its …
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The Titan Summit workshop held August 15–17, 2011, covered the evolution to the next level of high-performance computational resources, enabling more groundbreaking research in climate, energy creation and storage, biology, chemistry, astrophysics, and materials.
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The OLCF’s Rebecca Hartman-Baker and Adam Simpson added their expertise recently to a weeklong workshop designed to bring more chemistry faculty and students into the world of high-performance computing.
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Overview prepares Jaguar users for coming upgrades

Users got a first glimpse of ORNL’s next-generation leadership-class supercomputer at a July 26 webinar.

In a significant step toward exascale computing, the …
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The ORNL Industrial HPC Partnerships Program has fostered collaboration and innovation between government and the private sector for the past 2 years. Recently project director Suzy Tichenor reached out to new audiences as she traveled to Stuttgart, Germany, and Denver, Colorado, to showcase the program’s expansion and achievements.
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OLCF users got a first glimpse of ORNL’s next-generation leadership-class supercomputer at a July 26 webinar.
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For years, academia has looked to simulation to solve some of science’s most complex problems. Recently, industry has taken notice—America’s most powerful machines are now helping its most powerful companies. Take Jaguar and Boeing, for example.
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A research team led by Jon Reisner of Los Alamos National Laboratory is employing the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Jaguar supercomputer to use data from lightning detectors and even wind instruments mounted on planes flown into the eye of a hurricane to improve atmospheric models.
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Three animations created by ORNL computer visualization specialists Dave Pugmire and Mike Matheson won big at the SciDAC Electronic Visualization Night, held on July 12 in Denver, Colorado.
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A special report highlights the accomplishments of researchers running large, complex, and often unprecedented simulations on Department of Energy Office of Science supercomputers.
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Using Jaguar, a research team led by William Tang of DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a clearer picture of plasma confinement properties in an experimental device that will pave the way to future commercial fusion power plants.
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A team of scientists has been awarded a total of 80 million processor hours at the OLCF and the ALCF for QCD research to help develop a unified theory of how the four fundamental forces of nature interact.
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ORNL staff members contributed knowledge and support to a new geology unit of the JASON Project which recently earned a “CODiE Award” as the nation’s best science or health curriculum.
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Researchers at ORNL are working to say goodbye to input/output (I/O) problems with their most recent upgrade of the ADIOS.
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Five Oak Ridge National Laboratory staffers presented at the Institute for Nuclear Theory’s (INT’s) workshop, “The Nuclear Physics/Applied Math/Computer Science Interface,” held June 27 through July 1 at the University of Washington.
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In this interview, Galen Shipman, who heads OLCF’s Technology Integration group, discusses the challenges of managing big data.
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