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CAAR Accepting Application Team Proposals for Frontier System

As details about the Frontier supercomputer emerge, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) is seeking partnerships with select applications teams to develop scientific applications for highly effective use on the Frontier system. Through its Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR), the OLCF will partner…
Jonathan Hines
May 7, 2019
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Mixed Precision: A Strategy for New Science Opportunities

OLCF computational scientist Wayne Joubert successfully exploited the Summit supercomputer’s low-precision capabilities to accelerate a genomics application to exascale speeds. Since the days of vector supercomputers, computational scientists have relied on high-precision arithmetic to accurately solve a wide range of problems, from modeling nuclear reactors to predicting supernova physics to…
Jonathan Hines
October 9, 2018
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Faces of Summit: Succeeding by Leading

OLCF program director and project director for Summit, Buddy Bland has spent countless hours communicating and problem-solving with the system’s various stakeholders, including ORNL, DOE, and technology vendors IBM and NVIDIA, among others. On any given day at ORNL, Bland can be found participating in a project review, fielding updates…
Jonathan Hines
June 8, 2018
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Building the Bridge to Exascale

At the Exascale Computing Project’s (ECP’s) annual meeting in February 2017, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) staff discussed OLCF resources that could be leveraged for ECP research and development, including the facility’s next flagship supercomputer, Summit, expected to go online in 2018. Building an exascale computer—a machine that could…
Katie Elyce Jones
April 17, 2017
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Future HPC Strategies Set in the Smokies

Representatives from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, and HPC experts from around the world gathered in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, from September 2 to 6 to design and discuss scientific requirements and future approaches in preparation for the coming of the exascale era.
OLCF Staff Writer
November 13, 2014