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Pioneering Frontier: Meeting Industry at Scale

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 is scheduled for delivery in 2021, with full user operations in 2022. When the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) next supercomputer,…
Rachel McDowell
September 30, 2021
By forcing airflow to veer off the trailer towards the wake behind it, the TopKit Aero System (red) reduces the base wake (blue) and increases the pressure on the truck rear, creating a significant reduction in overall vehicle drag. Image Credit: SmartTruckScience

SmartTruck Steps Up Simulations for Certification by Computation

Long-haul tractor trailers, often referred to as “18-wheelers,” transport everything from household goods to supermarket foodstuffs across the United States every year. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, these trucks moved more than 10 billion tons of goods—70.6 percent of the nation’s total freight shipments—in 2016. But this transport doesn’t…
Rachel McDowell
August 29, 2018
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New Boeing Method Accelerates Turbulence Modeling Uncertainty Analysis

A simulation of a physical wind tunnel airplane model (the NASA Common Research Model), widely used for CFD benchmarking and analysis. Boeing researchers recently used OLCF resources to perform simulations that would aid them in identifying and reducing uncertainty in a computational turbulence model called the Spalart–Allmaras model. Quantifying the…
Rachel McDowell
December 20, 2017
Science

Better Combustion for Power Generation

A simulation of combustion within two adjacent gas turbine combustors. GE researchers are incorporating advanced combustion modeling and simulation into product testing after developing a breakthrough methodology on the OLCF’s Titan supercomputer. In the United States, the use of natural gas for electricity generation continues to grow. The driving forces…
Jonathan Hines
May 31, 2016
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Big Business and Big Science Partner in Computing to Speed Products to Market

Jack Wells speaks at GE Technology Summit about government–industry collaborations Jack Wells, director of science for the National Center for Computational Sciences, participated in the General Electric (GE) Technology Summit to explore partnering opportunities between the company and America’s national laboratories. Hosted by GE Global Research with Battelle Memorial Institute…
Dawn Levy
December 2, 2011
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Industrial HPC Partnerships Program Reaches New Audiences

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.
OLCF Staff Writer
August 19, 2011