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Exascale drives industry innovation for a better future
4 weeks ago

Exascale drives industry innovation for a better future

By  •  4 weeks ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

By Caryn Meissner, ECP contributing writer

 

Outside the high-performance computing, or HPC, community, exascale may seem more like fodder for science fiction than a powerful tool for scientific research. …
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Exascale blastoff
3 months ago

Exascale blastoff

By  •  3 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

With the world’s first exascale supercomputer now fully open for scientific business, researchers can thank the early users who helped get the machine up to speed.

Frontier set a new …
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Grid Modeling Tool Successfully Launches on World’s Fastest Supercomputer
4 months ago

Grid Modeling Tool Successfully Launches on World’s Fastest Supercomputer

By  •  4 months 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
4 months ago

Predicting the Future of Fission Power

By  •  4 months 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
4 months ago

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

By  •  4 months 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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Simulating a More Detailed Universe with Frontier
5 months ago

Simulating a More Detailed Universe with Frontier

By  •  5 months ago  •  Featured, Science

A trio of new and improved cosmological simulation codes was unveiled in a series of presentations at the annual April Meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis, …
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Forging a file system
6 months ago

Forging a file system

By  •  6 months ago  •  Featured, People, Science

Imagine solving the greatest scientific question of the era but having no way to save your answer.

No need to fear, thanks to Dustin Leverman and his team. Leverman leads …
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Exascale acceleration
10 months ago

Exascale acceleration

By  •  10 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Just how fast can the world’s fastest supercomputer go? Maybe even faster than imagined.

Researchers studying plasma physics for particle accelerators recently used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Frontier …
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Charting the new Frontier
11 months ago

Charting the new Frontier

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, OLCF History, Science

The Frontier supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory logged a new benchmark this week that further illustrates its world-changing potential and held onto its top ranking as …
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Solving the protein puzzle
11 months ago

Solving the protein puzzle

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

A simple scoop of soil or water can hold an entire ecosystem–potentially millions or more microscopic organisms and the countless proteins they rely on to survive.

Computations performed at the …
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WarpX Named Gordon Bell Prize Finalist
11 months ago

WarpX Named Gordon Bell Prize Finalist

By  •  11 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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Fast-tracking medical discovery
11 months ago

Fast-tracking medical discovery

By  •  11 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

The world’s fastest supercomputer could help discover the next great cure hiding in plain sight.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used Frontier, the world’s …
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Exascale Day 2022
12 months ago

Exascale Day 2022

By  •  12 months ago  •  Featured, Science

On October 18, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is celebrating the fourth National Exascale Day.

The holiday was created in 2019 as an initiative …
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Pioneering Frontier: Bringing the Science
12 months ago

Pioneering Frontier: Bringing the Science

By  •  12 months ago  •  Featured, People

The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees behind the construction and operation of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s incoming …
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OLCF researchers win R&D 100 award
1 year ago

OLCF researchers win R&D 100 award

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Industry, People

A team that includes researchers from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility recently received an R&D 100 Award for their work on Flash-X, a multiphysics simulation software package with applications …
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ORNL Celebrates Launch of Frontier – the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
1 year ago

ORNL Celebrates Launch of Frontier – the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

By  •  1 year ago  •  Events, Featured

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory celebrated the debut of Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer and the dawn of the exascale computing era.

Deputy Secretary of Energy …
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