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ORNL’s Superb Materials Expertise, Data and AI Tools Propel Progress
2 years ago

ORNL’s Superb Materials Expertise, Data and AI Tools Propel Progress

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science

At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists use artificial intelligence, or AI, to accelerate the discovery and development of materials for energy and information technologies.

“AI gives scientists …
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New Daymet Data Facilitates Environmental Science, Earth System Modeling
3 years ago

New Daymet Data Facilitates Environmental Science, Earth System Modeling

By  •  3 years ago  •  Featured, Science

The widely used Daymet dataset of North American weather metrics has been upgraded with the release of Daymet Version 4, rolling out enhancements such as greater precision on temperatures and …
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OLCF’s Constellation DOI Offers a Permanent Home for OLCF Users’ Data Sets
3 years ago

OLCF’s Constellation DOI Offers a Permanent Home for OLCF Users’ Data Sets

By  •  3 years ago  •  Science

This story is the third in a series called “Data Matters,” a collection of features dedicated to exploring the relevance of data for scientific advancement and exploration at the Oak …
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New Data Analysis Software Tools Aim at Addressing the Convergence of HPC and AI
3 years ago

New Data Analysis Software Tools Aim at Addressing the Convergence of HPC and AI

By  •  3 years ago  •  Science

This story is the second in a series called “Data Matters,” a collection of features dedicated to exploring the relevance of data for scientific advancement and exploration at the Oak …
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With ADIOS, Summit Processes Celestial Data at Scale of Massive Future Telescope
4 years ago

With ADIOS, Summit Processes Celestial Data at Scale of Massive Future Telescope

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Simulating SKA1-Low processing using the world’s biggest supercomputer from ICRAR on Vimeo.

For nearly three decades, scientists and engineers across the globe have worked on the Square Kilometre Array …
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Preaching pbdR
5 years ago

Preaching pbdR

By  •  5 years ago  •  People

Since bursting onto the scene in the early ’90s, high-performance computing (HPC) has become the most productive method for exploring ambitious problems in science that require substantial computational power. Yet …
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Zeroing in on Text Understanding for Automated Cancer Report Classification
6 years ago

Zeroing in on Text Understanding for Automated Cancer Report Classification

By  •  6 years ago  •  Science

In 2012 approximately 14 million new cases of cancer were reported worldwide, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) predicts that number will rise to 22 million by 2032. With each …
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New Discoveries Within ‘SIGHT’
6 years ago

New Discoveries Within ‘SIGHT’

By  •  6 years ago  •  Technology

At the home of America’s most powerful supercomputer, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), researchers often simulate millions or billions of dynamic atoms to study complex problems in science …
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OLCF Testing New Platform for Scientific Workflows
6 years ago

OLCF Testing New Platform for Scientific Workflows

By  •  6 years ago  •  Technology

Scientific progress increasingly is driven by data—along with the instruments that produce it, the networks that move it, the systems that analyze it, and the servers that host and disseminate …
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Accelerating Cancer Research with Deep Learning
7 years ago

Accelerating Cancer Research with Deep Learning

By  •  7 years ago  •  Science

Using the Titan supercomputer, a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is developing automated data tools for cancer research by employing deep learning techniques.
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OLCF Expands Data Analytics Capability with Popular Programming Language
7 years ago

OLCF Expands Data Analytics Capability with Popular Programming Language

By  •  7 years ago  •  Technology

With big science comes big data. In fact, large-scale simulations that run on leadership-class supercomputers work at such high speeds and resolution that they generate unprecedented amounts of data. The …
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OLCF Updates Lustre Community on New Features at Annual Workshop
7 years ago

OLCF Updates Lustre Community on New Features at Annual Workshop

By  •  7 years ago  •  Technology

OLCF staff delivered talks and tutorials to Lustre users covering the center’s on-going contributions to the effort to expand the parallel file system’s performance and flexibility.
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ORNL Researchers Hail Promise of Data-Driven Materials Discovery and Design
8 years ago

ORNL Researchers Hail Promise of Data-Driven Materials Discovery and Design

By  •  8 years ago  •  Technology

An article, published in the October 2015 issue of Nature Materials, provides an overview of recent advances in experimental imaging, data analytics, and high-performance computing that are enabling new opportunities for discovery and design of advanced materials.
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Group Leader Tapped for New Advanced Data and Workflow Group
8 years ago

Group Leader Tapped for New Advanced Data and Workflow Group

By  •  8 years ago  •  People

Sreenivas Rangan Sukumar is the new Group Leader for the Advanced Data and Workflow Group.

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OLCF Shares Lustre Knowledge at International Workshop
8 years ago

OLCF Shares Lustre Knowledge at International Workshop

By  •  8 years ago  •  Technology

The OLCF played a significant role in an ORNL event to share knowledge and discuss the future development of the parallel file system, Lustre.
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OLCF Staff Members Take Leading Roles at Joint Facilities User Forum
9 years ago

OLCF Staff Members Take Leading Roles at Joint Facilities User Forum

By  •  9 years ago  •  People

The Joint Facilities User Forum on Data-Intensive Computing brought together users and HPC center staff to discuss approaches to handling data, best practices, and the future of data-driven scientific discovery.

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