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‘Summit on Summit, Sierra, and Perlmutter’ Hits 2nd Anniversary of Team-Effort Problem-Solving
3 years ago

‘Summit on Summit, Sierra, and Perlmutter’ Hits 2nd Anniversary of Team-Effort Problem-Solving

By  •  3 years ago  •  Technology

With every new generation of supercomputer that arrives at the nation’s leadership computing facilities also comes an inevitable learning curve as computational scientists get acclimated to unfamiliar systems. Software bugs …
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ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus
4 years ago

ORNL Team Enlists World’s Fastest Supercomputer to Combat the Coronavirus

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used the world’s most powerful and smartest supercomputer, the IBM AC922 Summit, to identify 77 small-molecule drug …
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No Scaling Back: DOE, Cray, AMD to Bring Exascale to ORNL
4 years ago

No Scaling Back: DOE, Cray, AMD to Bring Exascale to ORNL

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 7, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a contract with Cray Inc. to build the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which …
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Ready for 25 More Years
6 years ago

Ready for 25 More Years

By  •  6 years ago  •  Events

On Tuesday, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) celebrated 25 years of high-performance computing (HPC). ORNL hosted leaders from government, academia, and industry …
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OLCF Staff Member Shares Work on Improving Simulation Efficiency
6 years ago

OLCF Staff Member Shares Work on Improving Simulation Efficiency

By  •  6 years ago  •  People

Ying Wai Li’s research has provided valuable insight into parallel computing that aids in reducing computing time on systems such as Titan, America’s most powerful supercomputer.

Li, a research and …
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The Problem with Cellulosic Ethanol

By  •  12 years ago  •  Science

Simulation provides a close-up look at the molecule that complicates next-generation biofuels

Lignin is very handy in many ways. In your diet it provides much of the fiber that keeps …
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ORNL Staff Contribute to Award-Winning Educational Curriculum

By  •  12 years ago  •  People

ORNL staff members contributed knowledge and support to a new geology unit of the JASON Project which recently earned a “CODiE Award” as the nation’s best science or health curriculum.
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Say Goodbye to Bottlenecks—ADIOS 1.3 Is Here

By  •  12 years ago  •  Technology

Researchers at ORNL are working to say goodbye to input/output (I/O) problems with their most recent upgrade of the ADIOS.
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It Takes Three to Tango

By  •  12 years ago  •  Science

The nucleus of an atom, like most everything else, is more complicated than we first thought. Just how much more complicated is the subject of a Petascale Early Science project led by ORNL’s David Dean.
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Jaguar Users Benefiting from ALCC Computing Hours for Energy-Mission Research

By  •  12 years ago  •  Science

Through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC), allocations were awarded to five projects with an emphasis on high-risk, high-impact research related to DOE’s energy mission. They are already providing insight into important efforts such as advancing the clean-energy agenda and understanding the Earth’s climate.
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BMI Uses Jaguar to Overhaul Long-Haul Trucks

By  •  13 years ago  •  Science

BMI Corporation is combining their aerospace and race care design expertise with the power of the OLCF’s Jaguar supercomputer to create a new, long haul “SmartTruck” that will increase fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
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ORNL’s Apra Honored by HPCwire

By  •  13 years ago  •  People

The publishers of the online supercomputing magazine HPCwire expect great things of ORNL computational chemist Edoardo Aprà in the coming year. Aprà is among 10 individuals included in the magazine’s “People to Watch” list for 2011.
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Computational Scientists Use Supercomputers to Explore Ice Sheet Dynamics

By  •  13 years ago  •  Science

Using Jaguar, SEACISM’s aim is to use state-of-the-art simulation to predict the behavior of ice sheets under a changing climate by developing scalable algorithms.
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