OLCF Brings Petascale Computing to 2017 APS March Meeting

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OLCF Brings Petascale Computing to 2017 APS March Meeting

National Center for Computational Sciences Director of Science Jack Wells co-organized a focus session called “Computational Physics at the Petascale and Beyond” at the APS March Meeting 2017 to bring high-performance computing topics to the largest gathering of physicists in the world. For staff at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing…

Rachel McDowellMay 9, 2017

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INCITE grants awarded to 59 computational research projects

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.

OLCF Staff WriterNovember 18, 2013

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Titan is Also a Green Powerhouse

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

Leo WilliamsNovember 14, 2012

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ORNL Supercomputer Named World’s Most Powerful

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.

Scott JonesNovember 12, 2012

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Supercomputing Award of 4.7 Billion Hours to Accelerate Discovery, Innovation

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.

Dawn LevyOctober 29, 2012

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ORNL Debuts Titan Supercomputer

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.

OLCF Staff WriterOctober 29, 2012

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OLCF Partner Wins Major Industry Award

GE Global Research, an OLCF industrial partner, was recently named a winner of International Data Corporations (IDCs) HPC Innovation Excellence Award.

Scott JonesJuly 7, 2012

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ORNL/UTK Team Maps the Nuclear Landscape

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.

Leo WilliamsJune 27, 2012

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Showcases Newfound Scientific Prowess on Titan

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.

OLCF Staff WriterJune 15, 2012

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Jaguar Accelerates Design of GE Turbomachinery

GE takes its turbomachinery research and development to the fast lane with the help of Jaguar, one of the fastest computers in the world.

Scott JonesJune 15, 2012

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Supernovas Explode in 3D Detail at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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.

OLCF Staff WriterMay 24, 2012

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ORNL Process Improves Catalytic Rate of Enzymes by 3,000 Percent

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.

OLCF Staff WriterMay 24, 2012

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Conference-Goers Examine Energy Challenges via Petascale Computing

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.

OLCF Staff WriterOctober 31, 2011

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Supercomputers Simulate the Molecular Machines that Replicate and Repair DNA

Scientists use Jaguar to model replisome components to understand their role in health and disease.

Dawn LevyJune 24, 2010

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ORNL Supercomputers Help Studies of Supernovas, Space

Image showing the asymmetric and turbulent flame that has consumed a white dwarf star in a type Ia supernova explosion. (Image credit: Daniel Kasen, UCSC) 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…

OLCF Staff WriterSeptember 28, 2009

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Oak Ridge Supercomputers Provide First Simulation of Abrupt Climate Change

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.

Dawn LevyJuly 16, 2009

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