3 years ago
Supercomputing Aids Scientists Seeking Therapies for Deadly Bacterial Disease
Francisella tularensis, a bacterium that causes the illness tularemia (also known as “rabbit fever”), is one of the most hostile organisms on the planet. Once the bacterium enters the body …
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3 years ago
Rethinking a Century of Fluid Flows
In 1922, English meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson published Weather Prediction by Numerical Analysis. This influential work included a few pages devoted to a phenomenological model that described the way that …
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3 years ago
Eight Teams Successfully Running on First NVIDIA and Arm Test Bed, Wombat at the OLCF
Alongside the regular high-performance computing (HPC) resources at supercomputing centers are test beds, small computing clusters that offer HPC experts a chance to explore new architectures before they are considered …
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4 years ago
OLCF Staff Elected to APS Division of Computational Physics Executive Committee
This month, the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) elected two Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) staff members to its executive committee. The National Center for …
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5 years ago
Another First for Quantum
The beginnings of quantum computing bring about many firsts. In 2010 a team led by B. P. Lanyon simulated a hydrogen molecule, H2, on a quantum system for the first …
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6 years ago
OLCF Provides Research Opportunities, HPC Experience for Postdocs
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is charged with a broad task: to develop and apply computational …
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