Ernest Moniz, the newly confirmed secretary of energy, visited ORNL and the OLCF on June 3.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 19, 2013
Researchers led by Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric Research used ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer to explore just how much sea level is likely to rise and under what circumstances.
OLCF Staff WriterJanuary 24, 2013
An OLCF industrial partner was recently named a winner of International Data Corporation’s (IDC) HPC Innovation Excellence Award, announced in Salt Lake City, Utah at the annual supercomputing conference SC12.
Scott JonesNovember 16, 2012
ORNL's James Hack was a member of a 15 person committee that recommended ways to advance climate modeling over the next two years.
OLCF Staff WriterOctober 18, 2012
HPCwire sat down with Galen Shipman to discuss strategies for coping with the “3 Vs”—variety, velocity, and volume—of the big data that climate science generates.
Dawn LevySeptember 17, 2012
A multi-institutional team used a global dataset of paleoclimate records and the Jaguar supercomputer at ORNL to find the perform an unprecedented climate simulation. The results, published in the April 5 issue of Nature, analyze 15,000 years of climate history.
Dawn LevyApril 4, 2012
Researchers at ORNL are sharing computational resources and expertise to improve the detail and performance of a scientific application code that is the product of one of the world’s largest collaborations of climate researchers.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2012
A research team led by Jon Reisner of Los Alamos National Laboratory is employing the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Jaguar supercomputer to use data from lightning detectors and even wind instruments mounted on planes flown into the eye of a hurricane to improve atmospheric models.
OLCF Staff WriterAugust 19, 2011
Mike Henderson, CEO of BMI Corporation and Smart Truck, was announced as one of nine winners of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, given to organizations achieving an important, quantifiable achievement with the help of high-performance computing.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 29, 2011
Through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC), allocations were awarded to five projects with an emphasis on high-risk, high-impact research related to DOE’s energy mission. They are already providing insight into important efforts such as advancing the clean-energy agenda and understanding the Earth’s climate.
OLCF Staff WriterApril 5, 2011
Using Jaguar, SEACISM’s aim is to use state-of-the-art simulation to predict the behavior of ice sheets under a changing climate by developing scalable algorithms.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 14, 2011
At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world’s fastest supercomputer for unclassified research is simulating abrupt climate change and shedding light on an enigmatic period of natural global warming in Earth’s relatively recent history.
Dawn LevyJuly 16, 2009
Software engineers turn to Pat Worley’s team to fix problems that threaten simulations.
Dawn LevyNovember 7, 2008
Is it possible to have a carbon-neutral Super Bowl? When National Football League Environmental Program Coordinator Jack Groh wanted to find out, he called ORNL.
Dawn LevyFebruary 4, 2008
