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Watch: ‘The Journey to Frontier’ Mini-Doc

The job of designing and building the world's first supercomputer capable of exascale speed — running at least a quintillion calculations per second — was no simple task. It took over 10 years of planning and advances in chip technology to culminate in the construction of the Frontier supercomputer at…
Matt Lakin
January 4, 2024
Science

OLCF to Celebrate 25 Years of HPC Leadership

Since its early days, the OLCF has consistently delivered supercomputers of unprecedented capability to the scientific community on behalf of DOE. Twenty-five years ago, established computing architectures in the United States were approaching their limits, while the country’s need for computing power to solve challenging problems in science, energy, and…
Jonathan Hines
October 31, 2017