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ORNL Adds Powerful AI Appliances to Computing Portfolio

(From left to right) Cole Freniere and Michael Reynolds of Microway, Alex Volkov of NVIDIA, and Chris Layton and Brian Zachary of ORNL pose with a newly arrived DGX-2. The NVIDIA appliances connect ORNL researchers with a platform that excels at machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence that could…
Jonathan Hines
February 6, 2019
Pictured here, daughters of ORNL staff members play the human neural network game, taking on roles as different kinds of neurons in a neural network.People

Introduce Your Daughter to AI Event Sees OLCF Participation

Last month staff members at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), facilitated a new artificial intelligence (AI)–focused event from the Women in Computing (WiC) networking group at ORNL: “Introduce Your Daughter to AI.”…
Rachel McDowell
July 17, 2018
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Summit by the Numbers

Download the high-resolution file. The US Department of Energy’s Summit supercomputer located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory enables scientists to simulate complex physical systems and make predictions critical to advancing research and development. Summit’s “smart” architecture merges GPU acceleration and dense local memory to support expanding applications in data science…
Katie Elyce Jones
June 8, 2018
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Infographic: Summit will be the world’s smartest supercomputer for open science

Download the high-resolution file. Summit provides unprecedented opportunities for the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific discovery. Here’s why: GPU Brawn: Summit links more than 27,000 deep-learning optimized NVIDIA GPUs with the potential to deliver exascale-level performance (a billion billion calculations per second) for AI applications. High-speed Data Movement:…
Jonathan Hines
March 26, 2018