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The OLCF’s Problem Busters

Professor Spencer Bryngelson and his team of researchers at Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering were excited to bring their code into the new world of exascale-class supercomputing. The Multicomponent Flow Code, or MFC, originated in the early 2000s to model the simultaneous movements of gases and liquids as they…
Coury Turczyn
February 11, 2025
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New Data Processing Automation Grows Plant Science at ORNL

At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists studying plant characteristics have access to sophisticated robotic imaging tools and sensors at the Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory, or APPL. This greenhouse-like lab offers one of the most diverse suites of imaging capabilities for plant phenotyping worldwide, letting scientists quickly…
Betsy Sonewald
April 15, 2024
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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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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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OLCF Staff and Researchers Make a Smooth Transition to Working Remotely

When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) committed its IBM Power System AC922 Summit supercomputer to conducting open research in the fight against COVID-19, it initiated an unprecedented all-hands effort. Summit is currently running simulations for at least ten individual research projects by other national…
Coury Turczyn
April 29, 2020
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OLCF and Tech Company Providentia Worldwide Build Intelligence System for Supercomputer Cooling Plant

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) and technology consulting company Providentia Worldwide LLC recently collaborated to develop an intelligence system that combines real-time updates from the IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer with local weather and operational data from its adjacent cooling plant, with the goal of optimizing Summit’s energy efficiency.…
Katie Elyce Jones
July 31, 2019
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Faces of Summit: Creating a Green Summit

Jim Rogers, computing and facilities director at the OLCF, has spent the last 30 years in the computing field. Over the course of his career, Rogers has taken part in a computing revolution, with systems increasing 1-million fold over the last three decades. The Faces of Summit series shares stories…
Rachel McDowell
August 29, 2018