The First Round of 2015 Hackathons Gets Underway

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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

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Buddy Bland Named as one of HPCwire’s 2015 People to Watch

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

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New Test Harness Keeps OLCF Resources Running Smoothly

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

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OLCF Hosts Portability Meeting with ALCF, NERSC

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

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OLCF Hosts First OpenACC Hackathon

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

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OLCF has Big Presence in the Big Easy at SC14

Members of the Oak Ridge Leadership Facility were active participants in this year's SC14 event.

Christie ThiessenDecember 10, 2014

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Oak Ridge to Acquire Next Generation Supercomputer

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

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Future HPC Strategies Set in the Smokies

Representatives from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, and HPC experts from around the world gathered in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, from September 2 to 6 to design and discuss scientific requirements and future approaches in preparation for the coming of the exascale era.

OLCF Staff WriterNovember 13, 2014

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Navigating in a Virtual World

James Hack, Director of ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences, was the first plenary speaker at at “Living in the Anthropocene: Prospects for Climate, Economics, Health and Security,” a one-day symposium sponsored by Smithsonian’s Grand Challenges Consortia.

Jeff GaryNovember 11, 2014

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Interns Gain Skills, Experience from Summer at ORNL

A total of 21 students completed summer internships at the OLCF. Here’s a look into the experiences of a few of this year’s OLCF summer students.

Christie ThiessenOctober 14, 2014

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Supernova Summer School Along the Road to Exascale

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Bronson Messer shared his knowledge on this subject during the 2014 International Summer School on AstroComputing (ISSAC), held at the University of California’s High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC) in San Diego, from July 21 to August 1.

OLCF Staff WriterOctober 14, 2014

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Tiny Titan Suits Up for Science on the Hill

A team from the OLCF accompanied Tiny Titan to Washington D.C. on September for the inaugural National Lab Day on the Hill.

OLCF Staff WriterOctober 14, 2014

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HPC Fundamentals Course Offers ORNL Staff an Introduction to Supercomputing

The 8-week HPC Fundamentals course covered topics such as the role of HPC in science today, an introduction to UNIX/LINUX, and programming in Fortran.

Christie ThiessenSeptember 16, 2014

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OLCF Connects with CSGF Fellows at Annual Program Review

DOE’s CSGF awards 4-year fellowships to graduate students in science and engineering fields that use high-performance computing (HPC) to solve complex problems.

Christie ThiessenAugust 20, 2014

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OLCF Explores Future of Fossil Fuels

The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University hosted its annual Oil and Gas HPC Workshop in Houston, Texas.

Scott JonesJuly 23, 2014

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Wells meets AAS

The OLCF’s Jack Wells was an invited speaker at the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS’s) Exascale Radio Astronomy conference from March 30 to April 4 in Monterrey, CA, where he detailed recent advances in computational astrophysics on Department of Energy supercomputing systems such as Titan.

Scott JonesJune 30, 2014

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Say Hello to Bio

The Bio-IT conference, which took place from April 29 to May 1, hosted more than 2,500 participants from the life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and IT industries representing more than 30 countries.

Scott JonesJune 2, 2014

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Titan Stability Helps Improve User Experience

Titan's stability translates into an improved experience for Titan users. Fewer unscheduled outages and node failures reduce job interruptions, allowing jobs to run to completion with fewer restarts.

Jeff GaryJune 2, 2014

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Everybody’s Talking About Titan

The OLCF-organized series “Extreme Scale Supercomputing with the Titan Supercomputer,” chaired by Jack Wells, director of science, brought together Titan users in 24 conference sessions amounting to 540 minutes.

OLCF Staff WriterMay 6, 2014

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OLCF Partner Wins Major Industry Award

An OLCF industrial partner was recently named a winner of International Data Corporation’s (IDC) HPC Innovation Excellence Award, announced in Salt Lake City, Utah at the annual supercomputing conference SC12.

Scott JonesNovember 16, 2012

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