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Early Frontier users seize exascale advantage, grapple with grand scientific challenges
4 months ago

Early Frontier users seize exascale advantage, grapple with grand scientific challenges

By  •  4 months ago  •  Featured, Science

With the world’s first exascale supercomputing system now open to full user operations, research teams are harnessing Frontier’s power and speed to tackle some of the most challenging problems in …
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Charting the new Frontier
10 months ago

Charting the new Frontier

By  •  10 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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Pushing the new Frontier
1 year ago

Pushing the new Frontier

By  •  1 year 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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Frontier Supercomputer Debuts as World’s Fastest, Breaking Exascale Barrier
1 year ago

Frontier Supercomputer Debuts as World’s Fastest, Breaking Exascale Barrier

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Science

The Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory earned the top ranking today as the world’s fastest on the 59th TOP500 list, with 1.1 …
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Benchmarking Mixed-Precision Performance
2 years ago

Benchmarking Mixed-Precision Performance

By  •  2 years ago  •  Technology

Today at ISC High Performance 2021, a European virtual conference for high-performance computing (HPC), the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) Summit was ranked as the world’s second-fastest supercomputer in …
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United States Continues To Lead World In Supercomputing
4 years ago

United States Continues To Lead World In Supercomputing

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the world’s TOP500 Supercomputers were unveiled, and once again asserted U.S. supremacy in supercomputing. The Summit machine at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory again ranked first in …
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Two DOE Supercomputers Top List of World’s Fastest
5 years ago

Two DOE Supercomputers Top List of World’s Fastest

By  •  5 years ago  •  Science

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories are now home to the fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the new TOP500 List, a semiannual ranking …
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Faces of Summit: Creating a Green Summit
5 years ago

Faces of Summit: Creating a Green Summit

By  •  5 years ago  •  People

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 IBM AC922 machine launched in …
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ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Named World’s Fastest
5 years ago

ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Named World’s Fastest

By  •  5 years ago  •  Technology

OAK RIDGE, Tenn.  – The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is once again officially home to the fastest supercomputer in the world, according to the TOP500 List, …
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Buddy Bland Named as one of HPCwire’s 2015 People to Watch
9 years ago

Buddy Bland Named as one of HPCwire’s 2015 People to Watch

By  •  9 years ago  •  People

Buddy Bland, project director at the OLCF, has been named one of HPC Wire’s “People to Watch” in 2015. Bland is recognized for his 30-year-career contributions in high-performance computing.
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Titan Completes Acceptance Testing

By  •  10 years ago  •  Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer has completed rigorous acceptance testing to ensure the functionality, performance and stability of the machine, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems for open science.
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ORNL Supercomputer Named World’s Most Powerful

By  •  11 years ago  •  Technology

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is again home to the most powerful computer in the world, according to the Top500 list, a semiannual ranking of computing systems around the world.
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