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Pioneering Frontier: Stepping Up CANDLE

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 was delivered in 2021, with full user operations expected in 2022. John Gounley is working on codes for the CANcer Distributed Learning…
Rachel McDowell
March 31, 2022
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Forging Ahead with Frontier: Ready to Crush Science

Computational users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) are running scientific codes on Frontier’s architecture in the form of a powerful test system at the OLCF called Crusher. Frontier, an HPE Cray EX supercomputer capable of 1018 calculations per second—or 10 with 18 zeroes—was installed in late 2021 and is…
Rachel McDowell
March 28, 2022
Technology

OLCF Explores Deep Learning with DGX-1

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) recently deployed a new NVIDIA DGX‑1 artificial intelligence supercomputer era offer scientists and researchers opportunities to delve into deep learning technologies with more vigor than ever before. Deep learning uses neural networks to classify data or predict outcomes by training models on large data…
Rachel McDowell
June 5, 2017
Technology

Containers Provide Access to Deep Learning Frameworks

Adam Simpson (front) and Matt Belhorn (back), high-performance computing user support specialists at the OLCF, use the Singularity application to develop containers that will allow newer systems to run deep learning packages. Deep learning is emerging as a powerful branch of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks to help…
Rachel McDowell
May 9, 2017