OLCF Conference Outreach Teaches HPC Fundamentals, Prepares Young Professionals

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OLCF Conference Outreach Teaches HPC Fundamentals, Prepares Young Professionals

The National Center for Computational Sciences, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, made a strong showing at computing conferences this fall. Staff from across the center participated in numerous workshops and invited speaking engagements. In September and October, staff from the NCCS and the Oak Ridge…

Jeremy RumseyDecember 13, 2024

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‘Summit on Summit, Sierra, and Perlmutter’ Hits 2nd Anniversary of Team-Effort Problem-Solving

With every new generation of supercomputer that arrives at the nation’s leadership computing facilities also comes an inevitable learning curve as computational scientists get acclimated to unfamiliar systems. Software bugs must be hunted down and hardware quirks ironed out. But even after those initial issues are resolved, there is an…

Coury TurczynSeptember 23, 2020

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GPU Hackathon Places Summit within Reach for Visiting Teams

Visiting teams representing academia, industry, and government participated in this year’s OLCF GPU Hackathon, held the week of October 22 in downtown Knoxville. Some teams used the time to prepare codes for the IBM AC922 Summit system. In less than 10 years, GPUs have become a proven engine of scientific…

Jonathan HinesDecember 3, 2018

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DOE Graduate Fellows Train on Titan for a Future in HPC

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) recently provided introductory training in high-performance computing (HPC) and access to the facility’s Titan supercomputer to some of the nation’s top doctoral students in computational science. As a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, the OLCF and supercomputing centers…

Katie Elyce JonesAugust 29, 2018

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