Jupyter Has Landed at the OLCF

Technology

Jupyter Has Landed at the OLCF

To analyze and process scientific data, researchers often employ Jupyter notebooks, interactive web documents that host snippets of code written in statistical programming languages such as Python (or R or Julia). Domain scientists, mathematicians, data scientists, and educators use the Jupyter tool suite to analyze and visualize data, iteratively prototype codes,…

Rachel McDowellDecember 22, 2020

Technology

In a Groundbreaking Move, Summit Joins Forces with BlazingSQL to Speed up Data Query Processing on Supercomputers

Computational scientists at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) are using the power of NVIDIA GPU computing and BlazingSQL, a new engine for GPU-accelerated queries using the SQL language, to substantially speed up big data analysis, such as is needed for their work on drug discovery for COVID-19. OLCF…

Andrea SchneibelOctober 28, 2020

Science

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

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 Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, across Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and beyond. Taking advantage of a computer’s full memory capacity and…

Andrea SchneibelApril 29, 2020

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