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From Summit to the Stars
1 year ago

From Summit to the Stars

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) wrapped up its 2021 hackathon with teams from around the globe working on projects that spanned the cosmos.

Ten teams with a total of …
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Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Fosters GCC Compiler Development with Mentor Contract
3 years ago

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Fosters GCC Compiler Development with Mentor Contract

By  •  3 years ago  •  Technology

The computational scientists who run codes on the massively powerful supercomputers at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) are working on solving some of the world’s most challenging problems. …
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ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus
3 years ago

ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus

By  •  3 years ago  •  Science

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit, to identify 77 small-molecule drug …
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Simulating the Stars at Exascale Requires HIP Solutions
3 years ago

Simulating the Stars at Exascale Requires HIP Solutions

By  •  3 years ago  •  Technology

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 …
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In the Fight Against Cancer, ORNL and Stony Brook Cancer Center Enlist an Advanced Neural Network
3 years ago

In the Fight Against Cancer, ORNL and Stony Brook Cancer Center Enlist an Advanced Neural Network

By  •  3 years ago  •  Science

When Joel Saltz—chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and associate director of the Stony Brook Cancer Center at Stony Brook University in New York—visited the US Department of Energy’s …
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Record-Breaking Year for OLCF GPU Hackathons Ends with Annual Knoxville, Tennessee, Event
3 years ago

Record-Breaking Year for OLCF GPU Hackathons Ends with Annual Knoxville, Tennessee, Event

By  •  3 years ago  •  Events

In late October, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) wrapped up its 2019 hackathon series with an event hosted at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, that …
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Tiny Transistor Leads to Big Win for ETH Zurich, 2019 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Winner
4 years ago

Tiny Transistor Leads to Big Win for ETH Zurich, 2019 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Winner

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

A team from ETH Zürich has been awarded the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Gordon Bell Prize for its work simulating quantum transport—or the transport of electric charge carriers …
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Can a UNICORN Outrun Earthquakes?
4 years ago

Can a UNICORN Outrun Earthquakes?

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Each year, anywhere from a few hundred to tens of thousands of deaths are attributed to the catastrophic effects of major earthquakes. Apart from ground shaking, earthquake hazards include landslides, …
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A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit
4 years ago

A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Turbulence, the state of disorderly fluid motion, is a scientific puzzle of great complexity. Turbulence permeates many applications in science and engineering, including combustion, pollutant transport, weather forecasting, astrophysics, and …
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Gordon Bell Finalist Team Tackles Transistors with New Programming Paradigm
4 years ago

Gordon Bell Finalist Team Tackles Transistors with New Programming Paradigm

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Transistors, tiny semiconductor devices that switch electricity on or off, revolutionized the electronics field when they were discovered in 1947. Originally half-inch-high pieces of germanium, transistors today are mainly composed …
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Search for Lightweight Alloying Solutions Earns Team a Gordon Bell Finalist Nomination
4 years ago

Search for Lightweight Alloying Solutions Earns Team a Gordon Bell Finalist Nomination

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Alloys—mixtures of two or more metals—are designed to be stronger, more ductile (pliable), or more durable than pure elements. Steel is one of the most popular alloy materials, but its …
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GPUs Power GE Code at OLCF Hackathons
4 years ago

GPUs Power GE Code at OLCF Hackathons

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

The ability to simulate turbulent phenomena using high-performance computing (HPC) can provide industry with important insights for efficient engine design. Second only to the ability to perform these critical simulations …
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CAAR Partnerships for Frontier Announced
4 years ago

CAAR Partnerships for Frontier Announced

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

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 …
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No Scaling Back: DOE, Cray, AMD to Bring Exascale to ORNL
4 years ago

No Scaling Back: DOE, Cray, AMD to Bring Exascale to ORNL

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 7, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a contract with Cray Inc. to build the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which …
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CAAR Accepting Application Team Proposals for Frontier System
4 years ago

CAAR Accepting Application Team Proposals for Frontier System

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

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 …
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Award Finalists Demonstrate Improved QCD Code for Supercomputing
5 years ago

Award Finalists Demonstrate Improved QCD Code for Supercomputing

By  •  5 years ago  •  Featured, Science

This article is part of a series covering the finalists for the 2018 Gordon Bell Prize that used the Summit supercomputer. The prize winner will be announced at SC18 in November …
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