Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility

One hundred four Titan users gathered at the Oak Ridge campus last month for the Annual Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) user meeting.

Staff members from the OLCF recently made a trip to the West Coast to both attend and contribute to the world’s leading conference on GPUs.

Prospective Titan users gathered in Knoxville, Tennessee, February 19-21, for the East Coast Titan Users and Developers Workshop and Users Meeting.

The OLCF took high-performance computing training to the user for the first time when experts from ORNL traveled to California for the Titan Users and Developers Workshop.

The OLCF will hit the road in early 2013, taking its three-day Titan Users and Developers Workshop to NVIDIA headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

The OLCF recently wrapped up its eight-week crash course in supercomputing for interns and employees at ORNL.

The OLCF hosted a number of activities to this end this summer, including internships for college students and the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Summer Math-Science-Technology Institute for high school students.

The OLCF offered summer students, interns, and staff members the annual “Crash Course in Supercomputing,” a workshop held on the ORNL campus June 12 and 13.

ORNL is upgrading its Jaguar supercomputer to become Titan, a Cray XK6 that will be capable of 10 to 20 petaflops by early 2013. To prepare users for impending changes to the computer’s architecture, OLCF staff held a series of workshops January 23 through 27.

The Titan Summit workshop held August 15–17, 2011, covered the evolution to the next level of high-performance computational resources, enabling more groundbreaking research in climate, energy creation and storage, biology, chemistry, astrophysics, and materials.