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
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
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
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
Representatives from the OLCF held prominent roles at CSGF Program Review July 27–30 in Arlington, Virginia.
Jeff GaryAugust 18, 2015
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
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
For OLCF users, managing cache behavior has gotten a little easier thanks to the newly developed tool GLprof.
Jeremy RumseyJuly 29, 2015
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
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
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
Buddy Bland, project director at the OLCF, has been named one of HPC Wire’s “People to Watch” in 2015. Bland is recognized for his 30-year-career contributions in high-performance computing.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 10, 2015
Staff at ORNL saw a need for more efficient systems testing; through a collaboration of groups at the OLCF, they were able to build a state-of-the-art test harness.
Eric GedenkFebruary 10, 2015
Team members of the OLCF hosted staff from ALCF, and NERSC for a meeting with high-performance computing vendors late last month to discuss strategies for application readiness and performance portability in preparation for the next generation of supercomputers.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 2, 2015
From October 27 to 31, scientific computing teams from around the world gathered in Knoxville to participate in the OLCF’s inaugural Hackathon, an OpenACC event specifically aimed at scaling scientific applications to run on heterogeneous, high-performance computing systems such as Titan.
OLCF Staff WriterDecember 10, 2014
Members of the Oak Ridge Leadership Facility were active participants in this year's SC14 event.
Christie ThiessenDecember 10, 2014
The U.S. Department of Energy has signed a contract with IBM to bring a next-generation supercomputer to ORNL. The OLCF’s new hybrid CPU/GPU computing system, Summit, will be delivered in 2018.
Scott JonesNovember 14, 2014
