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Simulations Reveal Nature’s Design for Error Correction During DNA Replication
3 years ago

Simulations Reveal Nature’s Design for Error Correction During DNA Replication

By  •  3 years ago  •  Featured, Science

DNA replication is one of the most important processes in biology, responsible for ensuring that a cell’s genetic material is copied over to new cells efficiently during cell division. But …
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OLCF Reaches New Heights with Andes Cluster
3 years ago

OLCF Reaches New Heights with Andes Cluster

By  •  3 years ago  •  Technology

Staff members at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) have replaced the center’s Rhea data analysis cluster with a brand-new AMD-based system dubbed Andes.

For 6 faithful years, Rhea …
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ORNL Scientists Tap into AI to Put a New Spin on Neutron Experiments
4 years ago

ORNL Scientists Tap into AI to Put a New Spin on Neutron Experiments

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

Scientists seek to use quantum materials—those that have correlated order at the subatomic level—for electronic devices, quantum computers, and superconductors. Quantum materials owe many of their properties to the physics …
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Titan Helps Scientists Fine-Tune Laser Interactions to Advance Cancer Treatments
5 years ago

Titan Helps Scientists Fine-Tune Laser Interactions to Advance Cancer Treatments

By  •  5 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Along with surgery and chemotherapy, radiation therapy is one of the most widely accepted forms of cancer therapy today. Current radiation beams for cancer treatments employ photons (light particles), positively …
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Titan Powers Data Dive into Tropical Soil Microbes
6 years ago

Titan Powers Data Dive into Tropical Soil Microbes

By  •  6 years ago  •  Science

Every life-form depends on access to basic nutrients for survival—even microbes that live in the soil. Though these organisms are invisible to the naked eye, their soil scavenging activity has …
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OLCF Expands Data Analytics Capability with Popular Programming Language
7 years ago

OLCF Expands Data Analytics Capability with Popular Programming Language

By  •  7 years ago  •  Technology

With big science comes big data. In fact, large-scale simulations that run on leadership-class supercomputers work at such high speeds and resolution that they generate unprecedented amounts of data. The …
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OLCF Group to Offer Spark On-Demand Data Analysis
8 years ago

OLCF Group to Offer Spark On-Demand Data Analysis

By  •  8 years ago  •  Technology

The OLCF will support a new service, Spark On-Demand, that enables users to instantiate Apache Spark to conduct in situ data analysis on OLCF compute resources.
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Retrofitting Rhea
8 years ago

Retrofitting Rhea

By  •  8 years ago  •  Technology

Prompted by the annual user survey, OLCF’s Rhea received an upgrade this fall. In two phases, OLCF staff doubled Rhea’s amount of RAM per node and added GPU nodes.
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Seeing Is Believing
10 years ago

Seeing Is Believing

By  •  10 years ago  •  Technology

When the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility upgraded its Jaguar supercomputer to the Cray XK7 CPU/GPU hybrid system known as Titan, the center knew that upgrades to its data analysis and visualization resources were necessary to complement Titan’s more than 20 petaflops of computing power.
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