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Two Finalists Nominated for Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID-19 Work on Summit

Every year at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), one deserving team is awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize to recognize an outstanding achievement in high-performance computing (HPC). Winners are chosen based on the demonstrated innovativeness of their algorithm development…
Rachel McDowell
November 18, 2020
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Four Teams Using ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Named Finalists in 2020 Gordon Bell Prize

Since 1987, the Association for Computing Machinery has awarded the annual Gordon Bell Prize to recognize outstanding achievements in high-performance computing (HPC). Presented each year at the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), the prizes not only reward innovative projects that employ HPC for applications in…
Coury Turczyn
November 10, 2020
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2019 Gordon Bell Finalists Powered by Summit

It has been a little over a year since the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, officially debuted the Summit supercomputer at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Since then, the 200-petaflop IBM AC922 system has maintained its position…
Will Wells
October 10, 2019
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Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Share 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize

Two US Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories were recently awarded the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Gordon Bell Prize for work done on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Summit supercomputer, the most powerful system in the world. The annual Gordon Bell Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in…
Katie Bethea
November 20, 2018
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Microscopy Images Put Deep Learning Code to the Test

ORNL research scientists Steven Young (left) and Travis Johnston (middle) with ORNL data scientist Robert Patton (right). A team led by Patton is in the running for the 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize after it used the MENNDL code and the Summit supercomputer to create an artificial neural network that…
Rachel McDowell
October 23, 2018
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Computing Genes to Support Living Clean

ORNL computational systems biologist Dan Jacobson, left, and OLCF computational scientist Wayne Joubert are part of a team that was named a finalist for the 2018 Gordon Bell Prize for its work to advance genomic science on the Summit supercomputer. This article is part of a series covering the finalists…
Jonathan Hines
October 15, 2018
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Uncharted Territory

Ambitious supercomputers attract ambitious users. After debuting as the world’s fastest supercomputer in June, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) 200-petaflop Summit is already demonstrating its utility for solving complex computational challenges with unprecedented speed. A recent announcement by the Association for Computing Machinery lists five Summit users among…
Jonathan Hines
September 17, 2018
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Streamlining Accelerated Computing for Industry

Scientists and engineers striving to create the next machine-age marvel—whether it be a more aerodynamic rocket, a faster race car, or a higher-efficiency jet engine—depend on reliable analysis and feedback to improve their designs. Building and testing physical prototypes of complex machines can be time-consuming and costly and can provide…
Jonathan Hines
August 23, 2016
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Flowing Toward Red Blood Cell Breakthroughs

A team of researchers from Brown University and ETH Zurich the Universita da Svizzera Italiana and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche is using America’s largest, most powerful supercomputer to help understand and fight diseases affecting some of the body’s smallest building blocks.
Eric Gedenk
October 13, 2015