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ORNL Hosts Inaugural Quantum Systems & Software Workshop

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosted the first Oak Ridge Quantum Systems & Software Workshop (OQSSw) on July 25, bringing together 75 participants from national laboratories, academia and industry. ORNL organizers launched the workshop as the first step toward building a unified software stack for quantum-classical hybrid computing.…
Angela Gosnell
August 29, 2025
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OLCF Upgrades Its Network Security Infrastructure

Cybersecurity at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is under constant pressure from millions of unauthorized connection attempts each day. Now, a major upgrade to the facility’s monitoring system has strengthened defenses, reinforcing one of the nation’s most powerful computing resources against hidden threats. To address this…
Angela Gosnell
August 20, 2025
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Back to HPC Basics

Building on a successful pilot with students from this summer’s Pathways to Computing Internship Program, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will launch a new training program to develop the next generation of advanced computing professionals: hands-on administration of high-performance computing,…
Coury Turczyn
August 14, 2025
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Shock Treatment for CFD Simulations

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology conducted the largest-ever computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, simulation of high-speed compressible fluid flows. Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the team applied a new computational technique called information geometric regularization, or IGR.…
Coury Turczyn
July 23, 2025
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Getting the Matrix of Life Right

More than a year ago, computational scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory published a study in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation that raised a serious question about a long-standing methodology used by researchers who conduct molecular dynamics simulations involving water. What if using the standard…
Coury Turczyn
July 9, 2025
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Speeding Up Chemical Reactions

Using the now-decommissioned Summit supercomputer, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory ran the largest and most accurate molecular dynamics simulations yet of the interface between water and air during a chemical reaction. The simulations have uncovered how water controls such chemical reactions by dynamically coupling with…
Coury Turczyn
June 17, 2025
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Journey to the Center of a Neutron Star

For astrophysicists, neutron stars stand out as objects of irresistible fascination — perhaps, in part, because of how difficult they are to decipher. But calculations conducted on the Frontier supercomputer, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have revealed new clues about the inner workings of neutron…
Coury Turczyn
June 2, 2025
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INCITE 2026 Call for Proposals

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INICITE, program has announced the 2026 Call for Proposals, inviting researchers to apply for access to some of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing systems. The proposal submission window runs from April 11 to June 16, 2025, offering an…
Angela Gosnell
April 11, 2025
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Quantum Study Seeks to Solve Questions on Fluid Flow

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory tested a quantum computing approach to an old challenge: solving classical fluid dynamics problems. The study relied on support from the Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, part of ORNL’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The results highlight avenues for further study of quantum…
Matt Lakin
March 26, 2025
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Scientists Lay Out Vision for AI-Based ‘Labs of the Future’

A workshop led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory sketched a road map toward a longtime goal: development of autonomous, or self-driving, next-generation research laboratories. Scientists have dreamed for generations of high-tech laboratories operated via robotics at the push of a button.  Recent advancements in artificial intelligence…
Matt Lakin
February 26, 2025
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OLCF-Led HPC Crash Course Drives Career Development at SC24

Not only did the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory take home top honors at the 2024 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC24), but the lab’s computing staff also shared career advice and expertise with students eager to enter the world of supercomputing. The…
Jeremy Rumsey
February 21, 2025
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The OLCF’s Problem Busters

Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his team of researchers at Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering were excited to bring their code into the new world of exascale-class supercomputing. The Multicomponent Flow Code, or MFC, originated in the early 2000s to model the simultaneous movements of gases and liquids as they…
Coury Turczyn
February 11, 2025