Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility

Link to article: https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/02/01/industry-voice-added-u-s-drive-exascale/

The shift from single core to multicore hardware has made finding parallelism in codes more important than ever, but that hasn’t made the task of parallel programming any easier.

In an effort to study the complex fluid dynamics and chemical reactions occurring inside a jet engine combustor, researchers from United Technologies Research Center have teamed up with experts at the OLCF to develop more comprehensive modeling methods.

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and General Electric, an industry user of the OLCF’s 27-petaflop Titan supercomputer, have been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards for Best Use of HPC Application in the Energy Industry.

In an effort to modernize computational fluid dynamics, a group of Imperial College researchers has developed a highly accurate and flexible code that utilizes GPU accelerators.

To improve input/output for its FireFOAM, the FM Global team partnered with OLCF staffer Norbert Podhorszki and Mark Olesen of ESI-OpenCFD, an organization that contributes to the development of OpenFOAM, to implement the OLCF’s Adaptable I/O System (ADIOS).

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Seeking to improve their knowledge of heterogeneous high-performance computing architectures, researchers at oil and gas company Total have been working with OLCF experts to improve their computational models.

Boeing used the Jaguar supercomputer, aiming to establish more reliable computational methods for estimating high-lift (takeoff/landing) characteristics for its commercial transport aircraft.

Titan is potentially available to any private enterprise through ACCEL.