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Building an Exascale-Class Data Center

When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) new exascale supercomputer, Frontier, completes installation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2021, it will later debut as a landmark in high-performance computing with groundbreaking performance of greater than 1.5 exaflops (one quintillion floating-point operations per second). But right now—long before Frontier’s…
Coury Turczyn
December 14, 2020
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Powering Frontier

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is poised to deliver Frontier, its first exascale supercomputer, next year. Exascale systems are capable of operating at 1 quintillion calculations per second, requiring a significant amount of power and generating substantial amounts of heat. Before the engineers working…
Rachel McDowell
September 23, 2020
Technology

Simulating the Stars at Exascale Requires HIP Solutions

As GPU architectures have become the standard for scientific computing, application teams have had to retrofit their scientific codes to run on new systems. Even teams with codes that have been re-engineered for GPUs must continually adapt them for new architectures. Evan Schneider of Princeton University, though, began developing her…
Rachel McDowell
March 5, 2020
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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
Science

ORNL Celebrates First National Exascale Day on October 18

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) and Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company—honors scientists and researchers who will make groundbreaking discoveries with the help of some…
Andrea Schneibel
October 17, 2019
Events

ORNL Staff Highlight OpenACC’s Role in HPC at Annual Meeting

The OLCF’s Director of Science Jack Wells gave a keynote talk at the 2019 OpenACC Annual Meeting last week about the OLCF’s experiences with and plans for OpenACC in past and future HPC architectures. OpenMP and OpenACC are widely used directive-based application program interfaces (APIs) that allow computer scientists and…
Rachel McDowell
September 12, 2019
Science

CAAR Partnerships for Frontier Announced

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 Application Readiness (CAAR) program. Through CAAR, the OLCF will partner with application core developers, vendor partners, and OLCF staff members…
Will Wells
September 4, 2019
Science

Science at Exascale: Mapping Climate Patterns

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 and simulation, as well as high-performance data analytics and artificial intelligence. In the “Science at Exascale” Q&A series, researchers working…
Elizabeth Rosenthal
May 7, 2019
Science

Science at Exascale: Simulating Small Modular Reactor Operations

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 and simulation, as well as high-performance data analytics and artificial intelligence. In the “Science at Exascale” Q&A series, researchers working…
Elizabeth Rosenthal
May 7, 2019
Science

Science at Exascale: Molecular Dynamics for Materials

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 and simulation, as well as high-performance data analytics and artificial intelligence. In the “Science at Exascale” Q&A series, researchers working…
Rachel McDowell
May 7, 2019
Science

Science at Exascale: 3D Printing

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 and simulation, as well as high-performance data analytics and artificial intelligence. In the “Science at Exascale” Q&A series, researchers working…
Rachel McDowell
May 7, 2019
Science

Science at Exascale: The Future of Fusion Modeling

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 and simulation, as well as high-performance data analytics and artificial intelligence. In the “Science at Exascale” Q&A series, researchers working…
Rachel McDowell
May 7, 2019
Science

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
The 2018 OLCF User Meeting was attended by 117 users and staff members. The annual event allows users to share their experiences with the OLCF’s resources and gives them an opportunity to learn about new tools and services.People

OLCF Hosts 14th Annual User Meeting amid Summit Buzz

The OLCF introduced plans for its future exascale system, Frontier, at the 2018 OLCF User Meeting. Last week the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), held its annual user meeting—an event…
Rachel McDowell
May 29, 2018