Superconductor Simulation Tops 15 Petaflops on Titan

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Superconductor Simulation Tops 15 Petaflops on Titan

Researchers simulating high-temperature superconductors has topped 15 petaflops on ORNL’s Titan supercomputer. More importantly, they did it with an algorithm that substantially overcomes two major roadblocks to realistic superconductor modeling.

Leo WilliamsNovember 12, 2013

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Simulations of Plasma Turbulence Model the Inner Workings of Cosmic Phenomenon

Scientists from Germany’s HZDR–Dresden used Titan, the most powerful supercomputer in the United States located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to simulate billions of particles in two passing plasma jet streams.

OLCF Staff WriterNovember 11, 2013

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High-Risk, High-Reward Simulations

The OLCF delivered more than 374 million supercomputer core hours to 17 projects through the Department of Energy's ALCC program—76 million hours more than expected.

OLCF Staff WriterNovember 6, 2013

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Peering into Cells One GPU at a Time

A simulation of the internal workings of cells has reached a sustained performance of 20,000 trillion calculations per second, or 20 petaflops, on the Titan supercomputer at ORNL.

OLCF Staff WriterNovember 6, 2013

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Code for Largest Cosmological Simulations Ever on GPUs Is Gordon Bell Finalist

Researchers are using DOE’s most powerful computing systems, including the nation’s top-ranked machine, ORNL's Titan, to simulate the evolution of the universe as it expands across billions of years.

OLCF Staff WriterNovember 5, 2013

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Titan Propels GE Wind Turbine Research into New Territory

General Electric Global Research is using the hybrid CPU/GPU Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer managed by the OLCF to simulate hundreds of millions of water molecules freezing in slow motion.

OLCF Staff WriterOctober 25, 2013

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Titan’s New Build Attracts Magnetic Systems Research Impossible Until Now

ORNL researcher is simulating the magnetic direction and strength—known as the “magnetic moment”— of nickel atoms on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers for science research, Titan.

OLCF Staff WriterSeptember 3, 2013

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Early Molecular Dynamics Research Blazes through Titan’s New GPUs

Researchers use LAMMPS code on Titan to learn how systems of atoms and molecules can be manipulated for improvements.

OLCF Staff WriterJuly 25, 2013

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Titan Completes Acceptance Testing

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer has completed rigorous acceptance testing to ensure the functionality, performance and stability of the machine, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems for open science.

Leo WilliamsJune 12, 2013

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Titan Shows Life Science Advancements at Bio-IT Conference

OLCF Director of Science Jack Wells spoke recently to the annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, sharing ORNL’s supercomputing experience.

OLCF Staff WriterMay 6, 2013

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OLCF Heads West

Staff members from the OLCF recently made a trip to the West Coast to both attend and contribute to the world’s leading conference on GPUs.

OLCF Staff WriterMay 6, 2013

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Workshop Prepares Users to Run on Titan

Prospective Titan users gathered in Knoxville, Tennessee, February 19-21, for the East Coast Titan Users and Developers Workshop and Users Meeting.

OLCF Staff WriterMarch 25, 2013

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Titan Users Now Have Access to GPUs

The next era in high-performance computing is here. On Monday, March 11, researchers from a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines were granted access to the Titan supercomputer’s GPUs.

Scott JonesMarch 13, 2013

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Extermination at Scale

With the assistance of OLCF staff, Allinea was able to customize its large-scale debugger to Titan’s hybrid architecture, enabling the supercomputer’s first users to easily scale to large portions of the machine and assisting the OLCF during Titan’s critical acceptance phase.

Scott JonesFebruary 27, 2013

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User Conference Brings Titan Training to the West Coast

The OLCF took high-performance computing training to the user for the first time when experts from ORNL traveled to California for the Titan Users and Developers Workshop.

OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2013

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ORNL Continues Strong Leadership Tradition at 2012 Supercomputing Conference

ORNL made a splash at November’s SC12 supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, demonstrating the lab’s high-performance computing achievements over the past year.

OLCF Staff WriterJanuary 29, 2013

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Titan Trainers Take Road Trip

The OLCF will hit the road in early 2013, taking its three-day Titan Users and Developers Workshop to NVIDIA headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

OLCF Staff WriterDecember 17, 2012

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What is a Core Hour on Titan?

For 2013 the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program awarded 1.84 billion core hours on Titan, a hybrid-architecture high-performance computing (HPC) system that sports central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), which are radically different, in the same machine. So what exactly does…

Dawn LevyDecember 16, 2012

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Titan is Also a Green Powerhouse

Not only is Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan the world’s most powerful supercomputer, it is also one of the most energy-efficient.

Leo WilliamsNovember 14, 2012

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ORNL Supercomputer Named World’s Most Powerful

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is again home to the most powerful computer in the world, according to the Top500 list, a semiannual ranking of computing systems around the world.

Scott JonesNovember 12, 2012

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