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Vampir Rises to the Occasion at ORNL
Researchers are licking their chops with the potential to speed the execution of parallel applications on the largest supercomputers using Vampir, a performance tool that traces events and identifies...
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Ford Taps ORNL to Boost Vehicle Airflow, Fuel Efficiency
Anybody who drives one of Ford’s recent vehicles spends a little less money on gasoline thanks to HPC work the carmaker undertook with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where more than one million...
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Ice-Repellant Materials One Step Closer
Scientists at GE Global Research are using the multi-petaflop Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study the way that ice forms as water droplets come in contact with cold surfaces....
View ArticleTitan Captures Liquid-Crystal Film Complexity
Liquid-crystal displays (familiar to most as LCDs) rely on the light modulating properties of liquid crystals to bring images to life on a wide variety of screens. From computer monitors to televisions...
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The Surprising Science Behind Everyday Products
One doesn’t normally associate their favorite shampoo or laundry detergent with science, let alone multi-million dollar supercomputers, but in today’s modern world many well-known consumer goods are...
View ArticleHealth Care Catches Data Fever
The United States is arguably in the midst of a health care crisis, but there is hope on the horizon and it involves learning how to make sense of big data. Over at Communications of the ACM, Oak Ridge...
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Summit Puts 13 Code Projects Into Readiness Program
When the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer powers up in 2018, it will provide the Department of Energy (DOE) research community with 150 to 300 peak petaflops of computational...
View ArticleApplication Readiness at the DOE, Part I: Oak Ridge Advances Toward Summit
At the 56th HPC User Forum, hosted by IDC in Norfolk, Va., this week, three panelists from major government labs discussed how they are getting science applications ready for the coming crop of...
View ArticleORNL Demonstrates Road to Supercapacitors from Scrap Tires
Some of the 300 million tires discarded each year in the United States alone could be used in supercapacitors for vehicles and the electric grid using a technology developed at the Department of...
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Jack Dongarra et al. on Numerical Algorithms and Libraries at Exascale
The HPC software research community greeted this summer’s announcement of the President’s National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) with tremendous enthusiasm. This response is easy to understand....
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Researchers Model Birth of Universe in One of largest Cosmological...
Researchers are sifting through an avalanche of data produced by one of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed, led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne...
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ORNL Shows Off Titan on Periscope
If you need a reason to join the Periscope craze, how about getting an inside look at the fastest supercomputer in the United States? Today staff at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF),...
View ArticleHow To Kill A Supercomputer – Tips from An Expert
Think your day is going badly? Let this article on IEEE Spectrum by Al Geist on the many ways that Supercomputers can crash lift your spirits. Geist, chief technologist for the computer science and...
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ORNL Researchers Create Framework for Easier, Effective FPGA Programming
Programmability and portability problems have long inhibited broader use of FPGA technology. FPGAs are already widely and effectively used in many dedicated applications (accelerated packet processing,...
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New Genomics Pipeline Combines AWS, Local HPC, and Supercomputing
Declining DNA sequencing costs and the rush to do whole genome sequencing (WGS) of large cohort populations – think 5000 subjects now, but many more thousands soon – presents a formidable computational...
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ORNL’s Future Technologies Group Tackles Memory and More
“Imagine if you’ve got a Titan-size computer (27 PFlops) and it has main memory that’s partially non-volatile memory and you could just leave your data in that memory between executions then just come...
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ORNL Studies Quantum, HPC, and Neuromorphic Computing for Deep Learning
Deep learning presents many opportunities and challenges. Training is a good example of the latter – it can take months or longer. An Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led team is studying how quantum...
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Doug Kothe on the Race to Build Exascale Applications
Ensuring there are applications ready to churn out useful science when the first U.S. exascale computers arrive in the 2021-2023 timeframe is Doug Kothe’s job. No pressure. He’s not alone, of course....
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Oak Ridge to Cut Up to 350 Jobs in 2017; Will Other Labs Follow Suit?
It’s not yet clear if staff cuts announced yesterday at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are just the first of others at other national labs as the Department of Energy feels pressure from President Trump...
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As Exascale Frontier Opens, Science Application Developers Share Pioneering...
In November 2015, three colleagues representing the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s three major supercomputing facilities struck up a conversation with a science and technology book...
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