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The OLCF’s Matt Sieger Selected to Lead OLCF-6
5 days ago

The OLCF’s Matt Sieger Selected to Lead OLCF-6

By  •  5 days ago  •  Featured, People

by Rachel McDowell

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Matt Sieger has been named the project director for the OLCF-6 effort. This next OLCF undertaking will plan …
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Charting the new Frontier
6 months ago

Charting the new Frontier

By  •  6 months ago  •  Featured, OLCF History, Science

The Frontier supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory logged a new benchmark this week that further illustrates its world-changing potential and held onto its top ranking as …
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Weaving wonders
12 months ago

Weaving wonders

By  •  12 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Ounce for ounce, carbon fiber could quickly become the wonder material of the future. The material, already used in a variety of products, boasts densities comparable to plastic, strengths comparable …
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Pushing the new Frontier
12 months ago

Pushing the new Frontier

By  •  12 months ago  •  Featured, OLCF History, Science

The numbers are in, Frontier ranks No. 1, and the researchers of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s National Center for Computational Sciences are finally breathing a few sighs of relief.

Teams …
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Philip Roth Named General Chair for SC24
1 year ago

Philip Roth Named General Chair for SC24

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, People

Philip Roth, a group leader in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the general chair …
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Meet Gina Tourassi, Director of the National Center for Computational Sciences
2 years ago

Meet Gina Tourassi, Director of the National Center for Computational Sciences

By  •  2 years ago  •  Featured, People

This is a continuing profile series on the directors of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facilities. These scientists lead a variety of research institutions that provide …
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Love-hate Relationship of Solvent and Water Leads to Better Biomass Breakup
3 years ago

Love-hate Relationship of Solvent and Water Leads to Better Biomass Breakup

By  •  3 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Media contact: Kimberly Askey, askeyka@ornl.gov, 865.576.2841

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering and supercomputing to better understand how an organic solvent and water work …
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Big Iron Afterlife: How ORNL’s Titan Supercomputer Was Recycled
3 years ago

Big Iron Afterlife: How ORNL’s Titan Supercomputer Was Recycled

By  •  3 years ago  •  OLCF History

When the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer was finally decommissioned on August 1 after 7 years of faithful service, it had successfully executed a total of 2.8 million jobs for scientists …
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The Last User of Titan
3 years ago

The Last User of Titan

By  •  3 years ago  •  People, Science

Titan, the groundbreaking Cray XK7 supercomputer operated by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was officially decommissioned …
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OLCF Supercharges Supercomputer Analytics with Apache Kafka
3 years ago

OLCF Supercharges Supercomputer Analytics with Apache Kafka

By  •  3 years ago  •  Technology

The high-performance computing (HPC) systems at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are about to vault into the “pubsub” era of real-time streaming analytics.

Employing …
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Igniting a New Class of Combustion Research
4 years ago

Igniting a New Class of Combustion Research

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

In a farewell nod to Titan, scheduled to be decommissioned in August 2019, we present a short series of features highlighting some of Titan’s impactful contributions to scientific research.

The …
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Artificial Intelligence Approach Points to Bright Future for Fusion Energy
4 years ago

Artificial Intelligence Approach Points to Bright Future for Fusion Energy

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

For decades, scientists have sought to control nuclear fusion—the energy that powers the sun and other stars—by developing massive fusion reactors to produce and contain plasma, with the goal of …
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Farewell, Titan
4 years ago

Farewell, Titan

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Technology

The Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer operated by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be decommissioned on …
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On the Verge of Exascale, the World’s Fastest Petascale System Points the Way
4 years ago

On the Verge of Exascale, the World’s Fastest Petascale System Points the Way

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Technology

On May 7, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the Frontier exascale supercomputer is slated for delivery in 2021 at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). While researchers who …
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No Scaling Back: DOE, Cray, AMD to Bring Exascale to ORNL
4 years ago

No Scaling Back: DOE, Cray, AMD to Bring Exascale to ORNL

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 7, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a contract with Cray Inc. to build the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which …
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Science at Exascale: Tracing the Origins of Matter in Star Explosions
4 years ago

Science at Exascale: Tracing the Origins of Matter in Star Explosions

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

Frontier is an exascale computer planned for delivery at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in 2021. The system will support a wide range of scientific applications for advanced modeling …
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