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Exascale Blastoff

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 record for computational power when the HPE Cray EX supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory debuted…
Matt Lakin
June 28, 2023
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Simulating a More Detailed Universe with Frontier

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, MN. Chaired by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Director of Science Bronson Messer, the session covering these next-generation codes heralds…
Coury Turczyn
April 26, 2023
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Exascale Acceleration

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 supercomputer to achieve a speedup by as much as eightfold in their code’s performance – more than double the improvement…
Matt Lakin
November 18, 2022
Bronson Messer, OLCF Director of Science, with the Frontier supercomputer, February 28, 2022.People

Pioneering Frontier: Bringing the Science

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 exascale supercomputer, Frontier. The HPE Cray system was delivered in 2021 and is now being prepared for full user operations.. Answer: This 2003 Jeopardy!…
Coury Turczyn
October 17, 2022
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Previewing the New Frontier of High-Performance Computing

In the main banquet room of Knoxville, Tennessee’s downtown Hilton Hotel, more than 150 scientists from around the world got their first peek at the exascale computing power that will become available for their research projects in two short years. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing…
Coury Turczyn
October 28, 2019