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A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit
4 years ago

A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Turbulence, the state of disorderly fluid motion, is a scientific puzzle of great complexity. Turbulence permeates many applications in science and engineering, including combustion, pollutant transport, weather forecasting, astrophysics, and …
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Farewell, Titan
4 years ago

Farewell, Titan

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Technology

The Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer operated by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be decommissioned on …
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Faces of Summit: Building a Better Summit
6 years ago

Faces of Summit: Building a Better Summit

By  •  6 years ago  •  People

The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s top supercomputer for open science, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit. The IBM AC922 machine launched in …
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Faces of Summit: Making Spaces
6 years ago

Faces of Summit: Making Spaces

By  •  6 years ago  •  People

The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s top supercomputer for open science, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit. The IBM AC922 machine launched in …
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OLCF Contributes to ORNL–UT Data Center Boot Camp
7 years ago

OLCF Contributes to ORNL–UT Data Center Boot Camp

By  •  7 years ago  •  People

Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosted a boot camp in conjunction with the University of Tennessee’s Reliability and Maintainability Center within the College of Engineering.
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One Billion Processor Hours Awarded to 22 Projects through ALCC
7 years ago

One Billion Processor Hours Awarded to 22 Projects through ALCC

By  •  7 years ago  •  Science

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has awarded nearly 1 billion processor hours to 22 projects at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)— a DOE Office …
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Titan Goes on Tour
8 years ago

Titan Goes on Tour

By  •  8 years ago  •  People

OLCF staff helped unveil ORNL’s Traveling Science Fair supercomputing exhibit at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington DC.
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Titan Takes on the Big One
8 years ago

Titan Takes on the Big One

By  •  8 years ago  •  Science

A team led by Thomas Jordan of the Southern California Earthquake Center, headquartered at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is using the Titan supercomputer to develop physics-based earthquake simulations to better understand earthquake systems, including the potential seismic hazards from known faults and the impact of strong ground motions on urban areas.
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Titan Simulates Earthquake Physics Necessary for Safer Building Design

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

To prepare California for the next “big one,” SCEC joint researchers are simulating earthquakes at high frequencies for more detailed predictions that are needed by structural engineers on Titan.
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The Future of Computing and Data Integration

By  •  10 years ago  •  People

Supercomputing experts from around the world used a recent meeting in the Tennessee Smokies to grapple with the challenges of “big data.”
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Titan Propels GE Wind Turbine Research into New Territory
10 years ago

Titan Propels GE Wind Turbine Research into New Territory

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

General Electric Global Research is using the hybrid CPU/GPU Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer managed by the OLCF to simulate hundreds of millions of water molecules freezing in slow motion.

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Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility User Update: SmartTruck Systems
10 years ago

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility User Update: SmartTruck Systems

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Startup zooms to success improving fuel efficiency of long-haul trucks by more than 10 percent
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ORNL’s Supercomputer Gets Under the Hood
10 years ago

ORNL’s Supercomputer Gets Under the Hood

By  •  10 years ago  •  Industry, Science

Ford researchers wanted to optimize engine bay airflow while considering a significant number of design parameters, a job that required supercomputing resources on a completely new scale.
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Hold It Right There

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Researchers with CASL are simulating fuel rod stabilization on ORNL’s Titan supercomputer.
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Platinum vs Nickel: Battle of the Biomass Catalysts
11 years ago

Platinum vs Nickel: Battle of the Biomass Catalysts

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

A project led by Amra Peles of UTRC is pushing the limits of lower-cost, genuinely renewable hydrogen production and use for fuel cells.
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Ramgen Simulates Shock Waves, Makes Shock Waves Across Energy Spectrum
11 years ago

Ramgen Simulates Shock Waves, Makes Shock Waves Across Energy Spectrum

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

Ramgen Power Systems, a Seattle-based energy R&D firm, is developing a novel gas compressor system based on shock-wave technology used in supersonic flight applications by using the OLCF’s Jaguar supercomputer.
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