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Two Finalists Nominated for Gordon Bell Special Prize for COVID-19 Work on Summit

Every year at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), one deserving team is awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize to recognize an outstanding achievement in high-performance computing (HPC). Winners are chosen based on the demonstrated innovativeness of their algorithm development…
Rachel McDowell
November 18, 2020
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Four Teams Using ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Named Finalists in 2020 Gordon Bell Prize

Since 1987, the Association for Computing Machinery has awarded the annual Gordon Bell Prize to recognize outstanding achievements in high-performance computing (HPC). Presented each year at the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), the prizes not only reward innovative projects that employ HPC for applications in…
Coury Turczyn
November 10, 2020
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NASA Team Releases Mars Landing Simulation Data to Encourage New Research into Spacecraft Descent Technologies

Scientists at NASA aim to one day land giant payloads on Mars, but safely descending passengers, flight crew, and other equipment in an atmosphere much thinner than Earth’s poses a significant challenge. Scientists studying potential Mars landing technologies need large-scale computational resources to model such scenarios, and to accurately model…
Rachel McDowell
September 23, 2020
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Powering Frontier

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is poised to deliver Frontier, its first exascale supercomputer, next year. Exascale systems are capable of operating at 1 quintillion calculations per second, requiring a significant amount of power and generating substantial amounts of heat. Before the engineers working…
Rachel McDowell
September 23, 2020
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Reaching New Heights in Weather Forecasting’s Exascale Future

Using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) IBM AC922 Summit—the nation’s most powerful supercomputer devoted to open science, located at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)—a team of researchers from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and ORNL achieved a computational first:…
Coury Turczyn
August 28, 2020
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Realizing the Dream of Rotating Detonation Engines through an OLCF, NETL, GE, and University of Michigan Collaboration

Revisiting an engine concept first proposed in the 1950s, researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) are conducting trailblazing research that may finally unlock its potential for ultra-high-efficiency propulsion and power generation. UM professor of aerospace engineering Venkat Raman has tapped the nation’s most powerful supercomputer for open science, Summit,…
Coury Turczyn
August 26, 2020
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ALCC Program Awards Nearly 6 Million Summit Node Hours across 31 Projects

Each year, researchers are awarded computing hours at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)—a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)—through the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research’s (ASCR’s) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC). The ALCC program grants…
Will Wells
August 5, 2020
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Summit Helps Predict Molecular Breakups

Designing materials with certain properties is the first step to making computer chips that can store more information, superconductors that could help to solve the world’s energy problems, and drugs that work more efficiently in the human body. The transition metals in the periodic table of elements are crucial to…
Rachel McDowell
June 24, 2020
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Knocking Out Drug Side Effects with Supercomputing

Psychedelic drugs could be effective in treating psychiatric disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, but medical use of these drugs is limited by the hallucinations they cause. “What if we could redesign drugs to keep their benefits while eliminating their unwanted side effects?” asked Ron Dror, an associate…
Rachel McDowell
June 4, 2020
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Mining for COVID-19 Connections

Scientists have tapped the immense power of the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to comb through millions of medical journal articles to identify potential vaccines, drugs and effective measures that could suppress or stop the spread of COVID-19. A team comprising researchers from ORNL and Georgia Tech are…
Katie Bethea
May 18, 2020
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OLCF Staff and Researchers Make a Smooth Transition to Working Remotely

When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) committed its IBM Power System AC922 Summit supercomputer to conducting open research in the fight against COVID-19, it initiated an unprecedented all-hands effort. Summit is currently running simulations for at least ten individual research projects by other national…
Coury Turczyn
April 29, 2020