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Former National Center for Computational Sciences Director James Hack Retires from 40-Year Computing Career

Delivering scientific breakthroughs on the world’s most powerful supercomputers requires leaders with the experience and knowledge of how to run the high-performance computing (HPC) centers that house them. That’s precisely why James Hack was hired in 2007—to direct the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the US Department of…
Rachel McDowell
January 12, 2021
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DOE and NOAA Extend Strategic Partnership

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have formally agreed to renew their strategic partnership to run and manage the National Climate-Computing Research Center (NCRC). For the past decade, the NCRC has provided a supercomputer platform for NOAA scientists to define the leading…
Coury Turczyn
January 12, 2021
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Gina Tourassi One of Six ORNL scientists elected fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Media contact: Karen K Dunlap, [email protected] Six scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS. The society is the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific body and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through the…
Katie Bethea
November 24, 2020
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OLCF Launches New User Portal, myOLCF

In the past, users of the supercomputing resources at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) have accessed information about their computing projects through a static portal that provides metrics and statistics upon login. Although this information is helpful from a reporting perspective, users have been unable to control certain…
Rachel McDowell
November 10, 2020
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Take a Virtual Tour of ORNL’s Supercomputer Center

The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) house some of the world’s fastest high-performance computing resources. Located at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), these innovative machines are in high-security facilities, not often open to the general public.…
Coury Turczyn
August 10, 2020
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NCCS Introduces HPC Core Operations Group

The NCCS created the HPC Core Ops Group this past fall. Pictured (left to right) are Scott Koch, Daniel Pelfrey, Ryan Adamson, Cory Stargel, Stefan Maerz, Kevin Bivens, Benny Sparks, Chip Newman, Matthew Gyurgyik, Jake Wynne, Noah Ginsburg, and Stefan Ceballos. Photo Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL The National Center for Computational…
Rachel McDowell
January 17, 2019