ORNL has launched a new era of scientific supercomputing with Titan, a system capable of 20 petaflops, by employing a family of processors, called graphics processing units (GPUs), first created for computer gaming.
OLCF Staff WriterOctober 29, 2012
A special report titled Accelerating Computational Science Symposium 2012 details the benefits of using GPUs for HPC, the findings were presented earlier this year at Accelerating Computational Science Symposium 2012 in Washington, D.C.
Dawn LevyJuly 17, 2012
The OLCF lent its expertise to the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), which took place June 17–21 in Hamburg, Germany.
OLCF Staff WriterJuly 16, 2012
An international gathering of researchers, computer scientists, and engineers converged on San Jose, California from May 14–17 to share their experiences using the newest technology in HPC—blistering fast GPUs.
OLCF Staff WriterJune 15, 2012
The annual Cray User Group meeting, held Apr.29–May 3 in Stuttgart, Germany, convened for computational researchers to share their expertise and findings with one another, all in hopes of bringing next-generation supercomputers online. ORNL researchers helped take the lead.
OLCF Staff WriterMay 24, 2012
ORNL, which operates the premier leadership computing facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, gathered experts in science, engineering, and computing from around the world to discuss research advances that are now possible with extreme-scale hybrid supercomputers.
Dawn LevyMay 24, 2012
ORNL and the University of Tennessee's Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) hosted a workshop, Electronic Structure Calculation Methods on Accelerators, at ORNL February 5-8 to bring together researchers, computational scientists, and industry developers.
OLCF Staff WriterMarch 30, 2012
OLCF users are invited to attend the upcoming GPU Technology Conference (GTC) May 14-17 in San Jose, California.
Scott JonesMarch 29, 2012
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer has completed the first phase of an upgrade that will keep it among the most powerful scientific computing systems in the world.
Leo WilliamsFebruary 29, 2012
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently made a quick visit to ORNL, where he got a briefing on advanced computer simulations of nuclear energy and even took a turn experiencing the 3D environment of a virtual reactor's nuclear core.
Scott JonesFebruary 27, 2012
ORNL is upgrading its Jaguar supercomputer to become Titan, a Cray XK6 that will be capable of 10 to 20 petaflops by early 2013. To prepare users for impending changes to the computer’s architecture, OLCF staff held a series of workshops January 23 through 27.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2012
With Titan’s arrival, fundamental changes to computer architectures will challenge researchers from every scientific discipline. Members of the OLCF’s Application Performance Tools (APT) group understand the challenge. Their goal is to make the transition as smooth as possible.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 6, 2012
In this interview Rich Graham, group lead for the OLCF's Application Performance Tools Group, discusses the challenges presented by new hybrid computer architectures such as Titan’s.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 6, 2011
HPCwire interviewed Buddy Bland (OLCF) and Jim Hack (NCCS) about Titan and GPUs.
Dawn LevyOctober 17, 2011
GPU-accelerated system of at least 10 petaflops to provide exceptional scientific computing The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded a contract to Cray Inc. to increase the Jaguar supercomputer’s science impact and energy efficiency. The upgrade, which will provide advanced capabilities in modeling and simulation, will transform…
Dawn LevyOctober 11, 2011
