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Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Share 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize

Two US Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories were recently awarded the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Gordon Bell Prize for work done on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Summit supercomputer, the most powerful system in the world. The annual Gordon Bell Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in…
Katie Bethea
November 20, 2018
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Annual OpenACC Meeting Promotes Programming Innovation

Every year, the OpenACC annual meeting brings together representatives from national laboratories, universities, and other research institutions to exchange information and expand the programming model’s uses in various science domains. A directive-based and performance-portable parallel programming model designed to program many types of accelerators, OpenACC is compatible with the C,…
Elizabeth Rosenthal
October 9, 2018
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Uncharted Territory

Ambitious supercomputers attract ambitious users. After debuting as the world’s fastest supercomputer in June, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) 200-petaflop Summit is already demonstrating its utility for solving complex computational challenges with unprecedented speed. A recent announcement by the Association for Computing Machinery lists five Summit users among…
Jonathan Hines
September 17, 2018