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Spock and HIP Seminars Look Forward to Supercomputing’s Near Future
2 years ago

Spock and HIP Seminars Look Forward to Supercomputing’s Near Future

By  •  2 years ago  •  Events, Technology

As the world of high-performance computing (HPC) marches ever closer to entering the exascale era of supercomputers exceeding a billion billion, or 1018, floating point operations per second, anticipation among …
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OLCF Workshop Introduces HPC Concepts
5 years ago

OLCF Workshop Introduces HPC Concepts

By  •  5 years ago  •  People

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) held an Introduction to High-Performance Computing (HPC) workshop June 26–28 at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Using …
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The Future of Computing and Data Integration

By  •  10 years ago  •  People

Supercomputing experts from around the world used a recent meeting in the Tennessee Smokies to grapple with the challenges of “big data.”
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OLCF Continues Education Leadership with Summer Students
10 years ago

OLCF Continues Education Leadership with Summer Students

By  •  10 years ago  •  People

Nearly 25 student interns from middle school to graduate school got the opportunity this summer to work with OLCF staff and boost their computing skills.
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OpenACC Headlines OLCF Summer Workshops

By  •  10 years ago  •  People

The OLCF offers multiple workshops this summer to educate current, future HPC leaders.
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Lattice QCD Community Visits ORNL to Discuss Challenges in the Field

By  •  10 years ago  •  People

Members of the USQCD converged on ORNL April 29–30 to discuss their exploration of the strong nuclear force and the computing resources that will keep that exploration moving forward.
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OLCF Heads West

By  •  11 years ago  •  People

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.
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Accelerators Workshop Informs Attendees about Innovative Hardware and Methods

By  •  12 years ago  •  Technology

ORNL and the University of Tennessee’s Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) hosted a workshop, Electronic Structure Calculation Methods on Accelerators, at ORNL February 5-8 to bring together researchers, computational scientists, and industry developers.
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Workshop Prepares HPC Users for Titan

By  •  12 years ago  •  People

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.
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ORNL Maintains Major Presence at Annual Supercomputing Conference

By  •  12 years ago  •  Technology

ORNL was once again a major player at high-performance computing’s (HPC’s) premier conference, SC11, which took place in Seattle, WA from November 12-18.
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Conference-Goers Examine Energy Challenges via Petascale Computing

By  •  12 years ago  •  People

More than 100 participants from government, industry, and academia attended the 2011 Computational Sciences and Engineering conference to discuss strategies for optimizing high- performance computing resources used in advanced modeling and simulation of grand challenges in energy.
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Titan Summit Shares OLCF and User Expectations

By  •  12 years ago  •  People

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.
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Workshop Introduces Chemists to High-Performance Computing

By  •  12 years ago  •  People

The OLCF’s Rebecca Hartman-Baker and Adam Simpson added their expertise recently to a weeklong workshop designed to bring more chemistry faculty and students into the world of high-performance computing.
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Webinar Introduces TITAN to User Community

By  •  12 years ago  •  People

Overview prepares Jaguar users for coming upgrades

Users got a first glimpse of ORNL’s next-generation leadership-class supercomputer at a July 26 webinar.

In a significant step toward exascale computing, the …
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Webinar Introduces TITAN to User Community

By  •  12 years ago  •  People

OLCF users got a first glimpse of ORNL’s next-generation leadership-class supercomputer at a July 26 webinar.
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Crash Course at OLCF Trains Next Generation of Supercomputing Researchers

By  •  12 years ago  •  People

The OLCF recently held a “Crash Course in Supercomputing” for approximately 60 summer interns to provide an overview of concepts and techniques in high-performance computing.
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