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Summit Installation Sparks a Safety Innovation

Employees at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) who have been around long enough to witness multiple supercomputer installations can tell you that each installation brings with it challenges as unique as the systems themselves. Tasked with providing basic life support like cooling and power for these leadership-class systems,…
Josh Cunningham
March 26, 2018
People

Faces of Summit: Modeling Safety

Paul Abston, the safety and installation manager of the Summit supercomputer, brings more than 20 years of experience as a safety professional to the job. The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s top supercomputer for open science, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit. The…
Jonathan Hines
November 28, 2017
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Campbell to Receive “40 Under 40” Safety Award

John Campbell, CSP, the safety professional assigned to the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility , will be recognized this week by the National Safety Council as one of its Rising Stars of Safety. Campbell is being named to the 2015 “40 Under 40” class.
Jeff Gary
September 29, 2015
Science

Going Nuclear

To increase efficiency and enhance nuclear safety, a team led by Igor Bolotnov of North Carolina State University has turned to Titan to perform state-of-the-art direct numerical simulation (DNS) to characterize such turbulent bubbly flows.
Scott Jones
June 2, 2014