Oak Ridge National Laboratory Wins insideHPC’s Inaugural Community Leadership Award
Publication’s readers vote lab top organization for high-performance computing advancement
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been hand-picked by insideHPC readers to receive the publication’s first-ever HPC Community Leadership Award. A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory, ORNL has routinely contributed to scientific computing in numerous fields including astrophysics, fusion energy, materials science, and biophysics. The world’s most powerful computing complex, ORNL houses Jaguar, the fastest supercomputer for unclassified research and the first petascale machine available for open science.
“ORNL has blazed a trail at the very high end of supercomputing in recent years,” said John West, editor of insideHPC (http://www.insidehpc.com). “Bringing together the expertise, funding, and organizational resources to build a record of sustained accomplishment at this level is a truly remarkable achievement.” West presented the award to Jeff Nichols, ORNL’s associate laboratory director for computing and computational sciences, Nov. 16 at the 2009 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC09) in Portland, Ore. “insideHPC’s readers have highlighted the confidence that the supercomputing community has not only in what ORNL has already accomplished, but in the leadership they will provide in the future,” West said.
—by Wes Wade
