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Grid Modeling Tool Successfully Launches on World’s Fastest Supercomputer
23 hours ago

Grid Modeling Tool Successfully Launches on World’s Fastest Supercomputer

By  •  23 hours ago  •  Science

by Elsie Puig-Santana, PNNL

Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), a power grid simulation and optimization platform developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first of its kind to run on Oak …
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Predicting the Future of Fission Power
1 week ago

Predicting the Future of Fission Power

By  •  1 week ago  •  Industry, Science, Technology

As renewable sources of energy such as wind and sun power are being increasingly added to the country’s electrical grid, old-fashioned nuclear energy is also being primed for …
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Early Frontier users seize exascale advantage, grapple with grand scientific challenges
1 week ago

Early Frontier users seize exascale advantage, grapple with grand scientific challenges

By  •  1 week ago  •  Featured, Science

With the world’s first exascale supercomputing system now open to full user operations, research teams are harnessing Frontier’s power and speed to tackle some of the most challenging problems in …
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WarpX Named Gordon Bell Prize Finalist
7 months ago

WarpX Named Gordon Bell Prize Finalist

By  •  7 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

The development of plasma-based particle accelerators—experimental technology that promises several advantages over conventional accelerators—may soon be accelerated itself by a new, advanced simulation code: WarpX.

Produced primarily by a team …
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Summer of High-Performance Computing
9 months ago

Summer of High-Performance Computing

By  •  9 months ago  •  People

At Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Allendale, Michigan, Elise Dettling is entering her senior year as an undergraduate student of theoretical mathematics. She describes herself as having …
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ECP Advances the Science of Atmospheric Convection Modeling
11 months ago

ECP Advances the Science of Atmospheric Convection Modeling

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science

Researchers supported by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have integrated the promising super-parameterization technique for modeling moist convection into the Energy Exascale Earth …
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OLCF’s Ashley Barker Takes on New Role
1 year ago

OLCF’s Ashley Barker Takes on New Role

By  •  1 year ago  •  People

Ashley Barker, Operations Section head for the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), is taking on a new role in the procurement and deployment of the next supercomputer system at …
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Forging Ahead with Frontier: Ready to Crush Science
1 year ago

Forging Ahead with Frontier: Ready to Crush Science

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, 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.


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Podcast: ORNL’s Justin Whitt on Deploying the Nation’s First Exascale Supercomputer
2 years ago

Podcast: ORNL’s Justin Whitt on Deploying the Nation’s First Exascale Supercomputer

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Technology

The Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast kicked off a series on Frontier, the nation’s first exascale supercomputer. In the first episode, Justin Whitt, program director of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing …
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Podcast: Designing the Electrical Infrastructure for a Supercomputer with Unprecedented Power Demands
2 years ago

Podcast: Designing the Electrical Infrastructure for a Supercomputer with Unprecedented Power Demands

By  •  2 years ago  •  Technology

This is the third podcast episode in a series on Frontier, the nation’s first exascale supercomputer. The guest is Rick Griffin, a veteran electrical engineer who has helped install more …
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Podcast: Guiding the Design and Construction of the Mechanical Systems
2 years ago

Podcast: Guiding the Design and Construction of the Mechanical Systems

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Technology

The Exascale Computing Project’s Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast kicked off a series on Frontier, the nation’s first exascale supercomputer. In the second episode, David Grant, the high-performance computing lead engineer …
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Pioneering Frontier: Meeting Industry at Scale
2 years ago

Pioneering Frontier: Meeting Industry at Scale

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, People

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 …
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Supercomputers Aid Scientists Studying the Smallest Particles in the Universe
2 years ago

Supercomputers Aid Scientists Studying the Smallest Particles in the Universe

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Since the 1930s, scientists have been using particle accelerators to gain insights into the structure of matter and the laws of physics that govern our world. Today, these accelerators are …
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ORNL Celebrates First National Exascale Day on October 18
4 years ago

ORNL Celebrates First National Exascale Day on October 18

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

On October 18, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will celebrate the first-ever National Exascale Day.

The holiday—an initiative of DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) …
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CAAR Partnerships for Frontier Announced
4 years ago

CAAR Partnerships for Frontier Announced

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

In preparation for the Frontier supercomputer, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has selected eight research projects to participate in its Center for Accelerated …
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Science at Exascale: Mapping Climate Patterns
4 years ago

Science at Exascale: Mapping Climate Patterns

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

Frontier is an exascale computer planned for delivery at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in 2021. The system will support a wide range of scientific applications for advanced modeling …
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