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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
Science

University of Delaware Team Tightens up Code for Exascale Computing on Frontier

This article was originally written by Tracey Bryant, Senior Director for Research Communications at the University of Delaware. University of Delaware professor Sunita Chandrasekaran is leading an international team designing an application for the Frontier exascale supercomputer, now being built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Image Credit: Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware…
Rachel McDowell
January 12, 2021
Technology

OLCF Reaches New Heights with Andes Cluster

Staff members at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) have replaced the center’s Rhea data analysis cluster with a brand-new AMD-based system dubbed Andes. For 6 faithful years, Rhea afforded OLCF users the opportunity to perform data analysis and visualizations of simulations performed on the OLCF’s former Cray XK7…
Rachel McDowell
December 11, 2020
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Previewing the New Frontier of High-Performance Computing

In the main banquet room of Knoxville, Tennessee’s downtown Hilton Hotel, more than 150 scientists from around the world got their first peek at the exascale computing power that will become available for their research projects in two short years. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing…
Coury Turczyn
October 28, 2019
Science

CAAR Partnerships for Frontier Announced

In preparation for the Frontier supercomputer, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has selected eight research projects to participate in its Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) program. Through CAAR, the OLCF will partner with application core developers, vendor partners, and OLCF staff members…
Will Wells
September 4, 2019
Science

CAAR Accepting Application Team Proposals for Frontier System

As details about the Frontier supercomputer emerge, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) is seeking partnerships with select applications teams to develop scientific applications for highly effective use on the Frontier system. Through its Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR), the OLCF will partner…
Jonathan Hines
May 7, 2019