Big Success at OLCF’s Largest User Meeting

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Big Success at OLCF’s Largest User Meeting

Attendees of the annual OLCF User Meeting, held May 24–26 at ORNL, pose in front of the ORNL Visitor Center. One hundred thirty-three people attended, making it the largest user meeting to date. One hundred thirty-three people attended the 2016 Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) User Meeting, making it…

Miki NolinJuly 5, 2016

People

Wells Brings HPC Expertise to Seismology Meeting

By attending such meetings as that of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, OLCF Director of Science Jack Wells can network with prospective OLCF users. Jack Wells, director of science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science…

Maleia WoodJuly 5, 2016

People

OLCF, ALCF, NERSC Co-host HPC Software Webinar Series

The Oak Ridge and Argonne Leadership Computing Facilities, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and the Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software project are presenting a series of webinars—“Best Practices for HPC Software Developers.”

Miki NolinMay 31, 2016

Technology

2015 Hackathons Round Out in Knoxville

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility hosted its GPU hackathon October 19–23 at the Marriott hotel in downtown Knoxville.

Jeremy RumseyDecember 8, 2015

Science

Titan Helps Researchers Explore Explosive Star Scenarios

Using Titan, researchers at Stony Brook University completed a three-dimensional, high-resolution investigation of the thermonuclear burning a double-detonation white dwarf undergoes before explosion.

Jonathan HinesDecember 8, 2015

People

ORNL Helps Transform High-Performance Computing at SC15

ORNL and the OLCF once again took leadership roles at SC15, the 27th meeting of the annual supercomputing conference.

Miki NolinDecember 8, 2015

Technology

Warmer Water to Cool Future OLCF Supercomputers

A move from cold- to warm-water cooling is projected to lower the OLCF’s cooling costs by more than half, saving nearly a million dollars per year in total operating costs.

Jonathan HinesNovember 10, 2015

People

ORNL Engages UT Students in Data Center Design and Management

This fall, ORNL partnered with the University of Tennessee to offer a minor-degree program in data center technology and management, one of the first offerings of its kind in the country.

Jonathan HinesNovember 10, 2015

Technology

ORNL Researchers Hail Promise of Data-Driven Materials Discovery and Design

An article, published in the October 2015 issue of Nature Materials, provides an overview of recent advances in experimental imaging, data analytics, and high-performance computing that are enabling new opportunities for discovery and design of advanced materials.

Jonathan HinesNovember 10, 2015

Technology

Moab Scheduling Tweak Tightens Titan’s Workload

To reduce fragmentation of large scientific workloads on America’s fastest supercomputer, staff at the OLCF is fine-tuning how jobs are scheduled on Titan.

Jonathan HinesOctober 13, 2015

People

Next-Generation Scientists Work on Next-Generation Supercomputers

More than 30 students completed summer internships at the OLCF in 2015.

Jeff GarySeptember 9, 2015

People

OLCF Welcomes Whitt, McNally into Leadership Roles

In August, two new employees joined the management team of the OLCF.

Eric GedenkAugust 18, 2015

People

Oak Ridge Staff Lead OpenACC, OpenMP Meetings

OLCF team members Fernanda Foertter, Oscar Hernandez, and Markus Eisenbach served as hosts for the OpenACC meeting at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Jeff GaryAugust 18, 2015

People

OLCF Team Members Play Key Roles at DOE CSGF Annual Program Review

Representatives from the OLCF held prominent roles at CSGF Program Review July 27–30 in Arlington, Virginia.

Jeff GaryAugust 18, 2015

People

Wells Talks Titan Big and Small at ISC ’15

Educating the next generation of computing experts was among the topics on the agenda for the 2015 ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt, Germany.

Miki NolinAugust 18, 2015

Science

Code Speedup Strengthens Researchers’ Grasp of Neutrons

A team led by James Vary of Iowa State University leveraged Titan to simulate clusters of neutrons called “neutron drops” to understand their properties better.

Jonathan HinesAugust 18, 2015

Technology

Banishing Bad Cache Behavior

For OLCF users, managing cache behavior has gotten a little easier thanks to the newly developed tool GLprof.

Jeremy RumseyJuly 29, 2015

Science

OLCF Names CAAR Projects at IDC HPC User Forum

OLCF's Tjerk Straatsma, recently announced the 13 projects selected for OLCF’s Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) Program during the International Data Corporation’s (IDC’s) High-Performance Computing (HPC) User Forum in Norfolk, Virginia lat month.

Jeff GaryMay 27, 2015

People

OLCF Helps Lead Cray User Group Conference

OLCF staff members Veronica Vergara Larrea, Chris Fuson, and Wayne Joubert won an award for best paper at the 2015 Cray User Group Conference last month in Chicago.

Eric GedenkMay 21, 2015

People

The First Round of 2015 Hackathons Gets Underway

Organizers from the OLCF, the University of Illinois Coordinated Science Laboratory and National Center for Supercomputing Applications, NVIDIA, and The Portland Group gathered last month for the next round of applications acceleration programming.

OLCF Staff WriterMay 21, 2015

HPC