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Pioneering Frontier: Keeping the Power On

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 is scheduled for delivery in 2021, with full user operations in 2022. Electrical Engineering Specialist Rick Griffin had just powered up his…
Coury Turczyn
March 31, 2021
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Building an Exascale-Class Data Center

When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) new exascale supercomputer, Frontier, completes installation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2021, it will later debut as a landmark in high-performance computing with groundbreaking performance of greater than 1.5 exaflops (one quintillion floating-point operations per second). But right now—long before Frontier’s…
Coury Turczyn
December 14, 2020
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Powering Frontier

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is poised to deliver Frontier, its first exascale supercomputer, next year. Exascale systems are capable of operating at 1 quintillion calculations per second, requiring a significant amount of power and generating substantial amounts of heat. Before the engineers working…
Rachel McDowell
September 23, 2020
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Faces of Summit: Making Spaces

Bart Hammontree began working as a subcontractor at ORNL in 1992. Now serving in a full-time position as a member of the UT-Battelle Development Corporation, Hammontree has overseen construction and retrofit projects both small and large in scope. The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s…
Josh Cunningham
October 19, 2017
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On the Road to Summit

Following the Summit announcement, OLCF staff have been making infrastructure changes to accommodate Summit. The OLCF has already hit several major milestones on the way to building Summit.
Eric Gedenk
September 29, 2015
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Campbell to Receive “40 Under 40” Safety Award

John Campbell, CSP, the safety professional assigned to the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility , will be recognized this week by the National Safety Council as one of its Rising Stars of Safety. Campbell is being named to the 2015 “40 Under 40” class.
Jeff Gary
September 29, 2015