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OLCF Brings Petascale Computing to 2017 APS March Meeting
6 years ago

OLCF Brings Petascale Computing to 2017 APS March Meeting

By  •  6 years ago  •  People

For staff at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), attending computing conferences and meetings is valuable, but sharing at scientific meetings where computing resources can have a direct impact …
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INCITE grants awarded to 59 computational research projects
10 years ago

INCITE grants awarded to 59 computational research projects

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced 59 projects for 2014, sharing nearly 6 billion core hours on two of America’s fastest supercomputers dedicated to open science.
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Titan is Also a Green Powerhouse

By  •  11 years ago  •  Technology

Not only is Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan the world’s most powerful supercomputer, it is also one of the most energy-efficient.
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ORNL Supercomputer Named World’s Most Powerful

By  •  11 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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Supercomputing Award of 4.7 Billion Hours to Accelerate Discovery, Innovation

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

The DOE’s Leadership Computing Facilities have awarded a combined 4.7 billion supercomputing core hours to 61 science and engineering projects with high potential for accelerating discovery and innovation through its INCITE program.
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ORNL Debuts Titan Supercomputer

By  •  11 years ago  •  Technology

ORNL has launched a new era of scientific supercomputing with Titan, a system capable of 20 petaflops, by employing a family of processors, called graphics processing units (GPUs), first created for computer gaming.
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OLCF Partner Wins Major Industry Award
11 years ago

OLCF Partner Wins Major Industry Award

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

GE Global Research, an OLCF industrial partner, was recently named a winner of International Data Corporations (IDCs) HPC Innovation Excellence Award.
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ORNL/UTK Team Maps the Nuclear Landscape

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

An ORNL and University of Tennessee team has used the Department of Energy’s Jaguar supercomputer to calculate the number of isotopes allowed by the laws of physics. The team’s results are presented in the June 28 issue of the journal Nature.
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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Showcases Newfound Scientific Prowess on Titan

By  •  11 years ago  •  Technology

An international gathering of researchers, computer scientists, and engineers converged on San Jose, California from May 14–17 to share their experiences using the newest technology in HPC—blistering fast GPUs.
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Jaguar Accelerates Design of GE Turbomachinery
11 years ago

Jaguar Accelerates Design of GE Turbomachinery

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

GE takes its turbomachinery research and development to the fast lane with the help of Jaguar, one of the fastest computers in the world.
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Supernovas Explode in 3D Detail at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

A team of astrophysicists and computational scientists is using the power of the OLCF’s Jaguar to virtually blow up dwarf stars, revealing the secrets of the biggest thermonuclear explosions in the universe.
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ORNL Process Improves Catalytic Rate of Enzymes by 3,000 Percent

By  •  11 years ago  •  Science

In a paper published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, a team led by ORNL’s Pratul Agarwal described a process that aims to improve upon nature – and it happens in the blink of an eye.
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Conference-Goers Examine Energy Challenges via Petascale Computing

By  •  12 years ago  •  People

More than 100 participants from government, industry, and academia attended the 2011 Computational Sciences and Engineering conference to discuss strategies for optimizing high- performance computing resources used in advanced modeling and simulation of grand challenges in energy.
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Supercomputers Simulate the Molecular Machines that Replicate and Repair DNA

By  •  13 years ago  •  Science

Scientists use Jaguar to model replisome components to understand their role in health and disease.
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ORNL Supercomputers Help Studies of Supernovas, Space

By  •  14 years ago  •  Science

Researchers use Jaguar to simulate ignition in type Ia supernova explosions.

Type Ia supernovas are the largest thermonuclear explosions in nature, expelling mass greater than that of the Sun and …
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Oak Ridge Supercomputers Provide First Simulation of Abrupt Climate Change

By  •  14 years ago  •  Science

At the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world’s fastest supercomputer for unclassified research is simulating abrupt climate change and shedding light on an enigmatic period of natural global warming in Earth’s relatively recent history.
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