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PennyLane on Frontier 2025

PennyLane is a cross-platform Python library for quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry. This training event introduces participants to key concepts and tools, enabling them to explore quantum algorithms and integrate them in an HPC setting. We will explore key PennyLane functionalities using both GPUs and CPUs on…
MacKenzie Boyd
August 19, 2025
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Back to HPC Basics

Building on a successful pilot with students from this summer’s Pathways to Computing Internship Program, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will launch a new training program to develop the next generation of advanced computing professionals: hands-on administration of high-performance computing,…
Coury Turczyn
August 14, 2025

2026 Quantum Computing User Forum

The Quantum Computing User Forum brings together both users of the Quantum Computing User Program (QCUP) and other interested parties in order to discuss common practices in the development of applications, software, and simulations for quantum computing devices and systems. Hosted by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak…
Josh Cunningham
August 11, 2025
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Demystifying the World of High-Performance Computing

A series of hands-on training seminars offered through the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is opening the doors of high-performance computing (HPC) to a wider audience. Usually offered to participants at events…
Betsy Sonewald
February 16, 2022
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Pioneering Frontier: Test-Driving with “User Zero”

The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented ORNL employees behind the construction and operation of the OLCF’s incoming exascale supercomputer, Frontier. The HPE Cray system is scheduled for delivery in 2021, with full user operations in 2022. When Tom Papatheodore logs on, the discoveries begin. Papatheodore, a…
Matt Lakin
August 31, 2021
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Hands-On Supercomputing

On June 21–22, interns and other participants at Oak Ridge National Laboratory had the chance to run challenge problems on the nation’s fastest supercomputer at a summer hands-on training session hosted by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility. This…
Matt Lakin
July 22, 2021
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Teaching and Learning

Tom Papatheodore, an OLCF high-performance computing engineer and member of the User Assistance and Outreach Group, connects users to the resources and training materials they need to do cutting-edge computational science. “A big part of the reason I enjoy my job is because I get to be a part of…
Jonathan Hines
December 3, 2018
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DOE Graduate Fellows Train on Titan for a Future in HPC

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) recently provided introductory training in high-performance computing (HPC) and access to the facility’s Titan supercomputer to some of the nation’s top doctoral students in computational science. As a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, the OLCF and supercomputing centers…
Katie Elyce Jones
August 29, 2018
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OLCF Readies Users for Summit

Now that the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has launched its IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer, staff members in the OLCF’s User Assistance and Outreach (UAO) Group are planning robust training events intended to enhance user experiences on the new system. Unlike the OLCF’s current Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer, which…
Rachel McDowell
June 26, 2018
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OLCF Conference Calls Equip Users with System Knowledge

OLCF staff members led an Introduction to VisIt conference call, which taught users about the open source visualization and animation tool VisIt. Pictured here are (left, front to back) Dave Pugmire, Sherry Ray, and Bill Renaud with (right, front to back) Chris Fuson, Suzanne Parete-Koon, and Ashley Barker. Need support?…
Rachel McDowell
April 18, 2017