Protein Design on Demand

Protein Design on Demand

Researchers used the world’s fastest supercomputer to train an artificial intelligence model to draw up blueprints for the building blocks of life. The study earned the multi-institutional team a finalist nomination for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize, which honors innovation in applying high-performance computing to applications in science,…

Matt LakinNovember 14, 2024

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Fine-Tuning Forecasts: ORBIT Brings Long-Range Weather Prediction Within Reach

The world’s fastest supercomputer could help bring up-to-the-minute, pinpoint weather forecasts weeks in advance to your laptop, tablet or phone. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used Frontier, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s 2-exaflop HPE Cray EX supercomputing system, to train the world’s largest artificial…

Matt LakinNovember 13, 2024

photograph of the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Gordon Bell Prize Nomination Recognizes Efforts to Train Extreme Scale Large Language Models Using Frontier

A research team led by the University of Maryland has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize. The team is being recognized for developing a scalable, distributed training framework called AxoNN, which leverages GPUs to rapidly train large language models, or LLMs. Winners of the Gordon…

Jeremy RumseyNovember 12, 2024

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Bigger, Faster, Smarter Genetics Research

A team of researchers used the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a new methodology for conducting a genome-wide association study, or GWAS, to earn a finalist nomination for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing,…

Coury TurczynNovember 1, 2024

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Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator Nominated for Gordon Bell Climate Prize

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The team developed an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational…

Jeremy RumseyOctober 30, 2024

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Surprising Details in a More Precise Description of Fission

Nuclear fission — when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy — may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since, fission is a constant factor in modern life, used in everything from nuclear medicine to power-generating nuclear…

Coury TurczynOctober 23, 2024

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Goodbye HPSS, Hello Kronos

Users of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility are experiencing big changes with how their data is stored — in a good way. As the OLCF’s High Performance Storage System is to be decommissioned in early 2025 after decades of service, users are becoming familiar with Kronos, which is already proving its ease of use and…

Angela GosnellOctober 22, 2024

Researcher Giuseppe Barca looks at a molecular dynamics simulation on a computer screen.

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Frontier Quantum Chemistry Calculations Nominated to Win HPC’s Highest Prize

Researchers led by the University of Melbourne, Australia, have been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize in supercomputing for conducting a quantum molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size and speed than any previous simulation of its kind. The team also includes researchers from AMD, QDX…

Jeremy RumseyOctober 17, 2024

Map of the US as seen from space, encircled by a ring of streaming data that connects a supercomputer, a scientific detector, and molecules.

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Standing up the Nation’s Supercomputing Pipeline for Streaming Big Data in Real Time

Big science generates big data. But what happens when researchers produce more data than they can process? It’s actually becoming a problem for research facilities that generate so much data that only supercomputers can tackle the volume. To bridge the gap between experimental facilities and supercomputers, experts from SLAC National…

Jeremy RumseyOctober 14, 2024

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Exascale’s New Frontier: GAMESS

In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, or ECP, set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (1018) or more calculations per second. That meant rethinking, reinventing and optimizing dozens of scientific applications and software tools to leverage exascale’s thousandfold…

Matt LakinSeptember 30, 2024

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Exascale’s New Frontier: ExaAM

PI: Matt Bement Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, or ECP, set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (1018) or more calculations per second. That meant rethinking, reinventing and optimizing dozens of…

Matt LakinSeptember 23, 2024

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Exascale’s New Frontier: ExaBiome

PI: Kathy Yelick Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, or ECP, set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (1018) or more calculations per second. That meant rethinking, reinventing and optimizing dozens of scientific applications…

Matt LakinSeptember 23, 2024

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Users of Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility gather for 20th annual meeting

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility welcomed users to an interactive meeting at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory from Sept. 10 - 11 for an opportunity to share achievements from the OLCF’s user programs and highlight requirements for the future. Users gather for a group photo during…

Angela GosnellSeptember 18, 2024

Technician places obsolete hard drives into container to be safely destroyed.

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Retiring — and Shredding — the Alpine Storage System

Ever wonder what happens to massive supercomputing systems when they’re retired? Surprisingly, when it comes to the data, it’s not too different from disposing of old documents — they go straight into a shredder and sent to recycling. At the end of 2023, the Summit supercomputer — formerly the world’s…

Jeremy RumseySeptember 17, 2024

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OLCF Pioneers Approaches to Energy Efficient Supercomputing

As high-tech companies ramp up construction of massive data centers to meet the business boom in artificial intelligence, one component is becoming an increasingly rare commodity: electricity. Commercial demand for electricity has been growing sharply in recent years and is projected to increase by 3% in 2024 alone, according to…

Coury TurczynSeptember 10, 2024

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DOE, ORNL Announce Opportunity to Define Future of High-Performance Computing

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science today announced a new research and development opportunity led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance technologies and drive new capabilities for future supercomputers. This industry research program worth $23 million, called New Frontiers, will initiate partnerships with multiple companies to accelerate the…

Katie BetheaSeptember 6, 2024

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Exascale’s New Frontier: CANDLE

PI: Rick Stevens Associate Laboratory Director, Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory In 2016, the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) set out to develop advanced software for the arrival of exascale-class supercomputers capable of a quintillion (1018) or more calculations per second. That leap meant rethinking,…

Coury TurczynSeptember 4, 2024

The Frontier supercomputer simulated magnetic responses inside calcium-48, depicted by red and blue spheres. Insights into the nucleus’s fundamental forces could shed light on supernova dynamics.

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Frontier Simulations Provide New Insights Into Calcium-48’s Controversial Nuclear Magnetic Excitation

The nucleus of an atom is almost inconceivably small, and most people have little idea just how much of the world around them is shaped by the strong nuclear forces that hold those tiny subatomic particles together. Nuclear physicists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently used…

Jeremy RumseySeptember 3, 2024

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Study Seeks to Unite High-Performance Computing, Quantum Computing for Science

A study by more than a dozen scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory examines potential strategies to integrate quantum computing with the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems in the pursuit of science. The study published in Future Generation Computing Systems takes a big-picture look at the…

Matt LakinAugust 28, 2024

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Quantum Computing Experts Gather for Fifth Annual User Forum at ORNL

The Quantum Computing User Forum, or QCUF, welcomed attendees for a dynamic event at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory from Aug. 12 to Aug. 15. Hosted by the lab’s Quantum Computing Institute and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, or OLCF, the fifth annual event was the largest yet, with over…

Angela GosnellAugust 27, 2024

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