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Pioneering Frontier: Meeting Industry at Scale
1 year ago

Pioneering Frontier: Meeting Industry at Scale

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, People

The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented ORNL employees behind the construction and operation of the OLCF’s incoming exascale supercomputer, Frontier. The HPE Cray system is scheduled …
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Arthur “Buddy” Bland, World-Leading Supercomputing Project Director, Retires after 40 Years Dedicated to HPC
2 years ago

Arthur “Buddy” Bland, World-Leading Supercomputing Project Director, Retires after 40 Years Dedicated to HPC

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, People

“No risk, no reward.” It’s a familiar sentiment in business and entrepreneurial ventures. Risk drives innovation and propels organizations to new heights. It’s certainly familiar to Arthur “Buddy” Bland, former …
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Upgraded Science Trailer Teaches Students about Supercomputing
4 years ago

Upgraded Science Trailer Teaches Students about Supercomputing

By  •  4 years ago  •  People

“What’s Your Problem?” This question, emblazoned on the side of a bright red trailer, invites students of all ages to step into the world of computational science.

This mobile exhibit …
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ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Named World’s Fastest
5 years ago

ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Named World’s Fastest

By  •  5 years ago  •  Technology

OAK RIDGE, Tenn.  – The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is once again officially home to the fastest supercomputer in the world, according to the TOP500 List, …
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The Bleeding ‘Edge’ of Fusion Research

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

Titan allows advanced scientific applications to reach unprecedented speeds, enabling scientific breakthroughs faster than ever with only a marginal increase in power consumption.
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Titan Propels GE Wind Turbine Research into New Territory
9 years ago

Titan Propels GE Wind Turbine Research into New Territory

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

General Electric Global Research is using the hybrid CPU/GPU Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer managed by the OLCF to simulate hundreds of millions of water molecules freezing in slow motion.

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Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility User Update: SmartTruck Systems
10 years ago

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility User Update: SmartTruck Systems

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Startup zooms to success improving fuel efficiency of long-haul trucks by more than 10 percent
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ORNL’s Supercomputer Gets Under the Hood
10 years ago

ORNL’s Supercomputer Gets Under the Hood

By  •  10 years ago  •  Industry, Science

Ford researchers wanted to optimize engine bay airflow while considering a significant number of design parameters, a job that required supercomputing resources on a completely new scale.
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Vampir Takes a Bite Out of Inefficiency as Codes Run on Bigger Supercomputers

By  •  10 years ago  •  Technology

Using Vampir, a team of researchers has analyzed a running application in detail as it executed on all 220,000 CPU processors of Titan’s predecessor, Jaguar.
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OLCF Industry Partnerships Profiled in Fortune Article
10 years ago

OLCF Industry Partnerships Profiled in Fortune Article

By  •  10 years ago  •  Technology

Fortune magazine profiled industrial use of HPC at OLCF, and several industrial users, in their annual, flagship Fortune 500 issue.
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Lessons from the Past

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

A team of researchers ran transient, or continuous, simulations on an ORNL supercomputer over three years to create the first physics-based test of hemispheric deglaciation, work that was recently featured in Nature.
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Sea-Level Rise Will Continue Even with Aggressive Emission Mitigation

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Researchers led by Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric Research used ORNL’s Jaguar supercomputer to explore just how much sea level is likely to rise and under what circumstances.
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Platinum vs Nickel: Battle of the Biomass Catalysts
10 years ago

Platinum vs Nickel: Battle of the Biomass Catalysts

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

A project led by Amra Peles of UTRC is pushing the limits of lower-cost, genuinely renewable hydrogen production and use for fuel cells.
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OLCF Partner Wins Major Industry Award
10 years ago

OLCF Partner Wins Major Industry Award

By  •  10 years ago  •  People

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.
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ORNL Supercomputer Named World’s Most Powerful

By  •  10 years ago  •  Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is again home to the most powerful computer in the world, according to the Top500 list, a semiannual ranking of computing systems around the world.
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Big Computing Cures Big Pharma

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Researchers from ORNL and the University of Tennessee are using OLCF supercomputers to help cut time and risk in new drug development.
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