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Keeping Open-Source Software Open

National Center for Computational Sciences teams turned out to support the High Performance Software Foundation’s second annual conference on March 19-20 in Chicago. The organization, founded in 2024 as part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation, works to lower barriers to productive use of existing and future high-performance computing (HPC) systems.…
Matt Lakin
May 27, 2026

2024 NCCS Virtual Career Fair

You are invited to attend the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Virtual Career Fair taking place Friday, November 8, 2024 from 1:00 pm ET to 3:30 pm ET.   Registration for this event is now closed.   The NCCS is hiring across a wide range of disciplines from computational…
Josh Cunningham
October 10, 2024
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Meet the NCCS and OLCF Director: Arjun Shankar

World-leading supercomputers, like those built and deployed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are astonishing feats of computational and infrastructural engineering. But behind the cables, wires and racks is the hard work of hundreds of individuals committed to a mission bigger than themselves. Arjun…
Betsy Sonewald
May 14, 2024
2023 NCCS Virtual Career Fair

2023 Virtual Career Fair

You are invited to attend the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Virtual Career Fair taking place Friday, October 27, 2023 from 1:00 pm ET to 4:30 pm ET. Register below by 11:59pm ET on October, 26 The NCCS is hiring across a wide range of disciplines from computational and…
Josh Cunningham
August 16, 2023
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The NCCS’s Operational Orchestrator

At the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), Ashley Barker enjoys one of the least complicated–sounding job titles at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL): section head of operations. But within that seemingly ordinary designation lurks a multitude of demanding roles as she oversees the…
Coury Turczyn
May 24, 2023
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The OLCF’s Matt Sieger Selected to Lead OLCF-6

by Rachel McDowell The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Matt Sieger has been named the project director for the OLCF-6 effort. This next OLCF undertaking will plan and build a world-class successor to the OLCF’s still-new exascale system, Frontier. “I am delighted to welcome Matt Sieger as the new…
Coury Turczyn
May 24, 2023
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Sky’s the Limit for Cumulus-2

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has launched a new, much more powerful computer system to support climate data research conducted by the DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. Procured and managed by the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at ORNL, the Cumulus-2…
Coury Turczyn
July 14, 2022
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Pushing the new Frontier

The numbers are in, Frontier ranks No. 1, and the researchers of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's National Center for Computational Sciences are finally breathing a few sighs of relief. Teams worked around the clock for months to help prepare the new HPE Cray EX supercomputer and gauge its record-setting exascale…
Matt Lakin
June 8, 2022
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Pioneering Frontier: Stepping Up CANDLE

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 was delivered in 2021, with full user operations expected in 2022. John Gounley is working on codes for the CANcer Distributed Learning…
Rachel McDowell
March 31, 2022
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Thinking outside the Black Box

A study led by scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) plumbs the depths of deep learning and could connect the digital synapses toward better, more reliable artificial-intelligence (AI) models. The research team from ORNL and the National Energy Technology Laboratory used Summit, the…
Matt Lakin
January 6, 2022

Virtual Career Fair

You are invited to attend the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Virtual Career Fair taking place Thursday, November 11, 2021 from 1:30 pm ET to 5:30 pm ET. Register below by 11:59pm ET on November 10.  The NCCS is hiring across a wide range of disciplines from computational and…
Katie Bethea
October 29, 2021
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OLCF Organizes First Hackathon on Slate Service

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) hosted its first ever Slate hackathon for users of the OLCF’s Slate platform, a resource that provides container orchestration services and gives users a chance to run specialized tools and workflows that support computational campaigns. The hackathon was developed and hosted by the…
Rachel McDowell
September 29, 2021
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NCCS Introduces CITADEL Security Framework

The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has unveiled CITADEL, a new framework of security protocols that will enable researchers to harness the NCCS’s supercomputers for open-science projects using protected data Although ORNL has a long history of…
Coury Turczyn
May 6, 2021
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Developing a Data Ecosystem

When J. “Robert” Michael started his new job at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) last September, he took on a unique task: making sure that data is a “first-class citizen” in the scientific research being conducted…
Coury Turczyn
May 6, 2021
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ORNL’s Supercomputer Utility Squad

With more than 1,000 researchers around the world using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) IBM AC922 Summit this year to pursue some of the biggest mysteries in science, the nation’s most powerful supercomputer gets little downtime. At any given hour, it’s typically running complex codes to investigate everything…
Coury Turczyn
March 31, 2021
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Arthur “Buddy” Bland, World-Leading Supercomputing Project Director, Retires after 40 Years Dedicated to HPC

“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 project director at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) who retired this month after 40 years of faithful service…
Rachel McDowell
February 26, 2021