5 Heavy-Duty Supercomputer Science Projects for 2008
Posted on Feb 5th, 2008
Inspiration is great, but sometimes a researcher needs raw computing power—the digital equivalent of a three-stage rocket engine blasting into the sky—to achieve a scientific breakthrough. But booking time on ...
Wamp Honors Oak Ridge Climate Scientists
Posted on Feb 1st, 2008
U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., said he was awed by the work of Oak Ridge scientists who contributed to the Nobel Prize-winning work on global climate change.
Wamp came to Oak ...
Supercomputer Travels Way Back in Time to Predict Climate Future
Posted on Jan 24th, 2008
To try to assess global warming's impact on the environment and see if the world faces an abrupt climate change, Zhengyu Liu, director of the Center for Climatic Research at ...
Power Processing for All
Posted on Jan 24th, 2008
Clusters open high-performance systems to new users — if you set them up right
UNCLE SAM, as a personification of the United States, first started making the rounds during the War ...
OR’s Supercomputer Makes Way for Baby
Posted on Jan 14th, 2008
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar - already one of the world's fastest computers - is getting a serious upgrade. In the process, Jaguar has given birth to a speedy little ...
State will build twin computer data centers
Posted on Dec 17th, 2007
Tennessee is spending $68 million over the next three years to build and outfit two "data centers" to house hundreds of computers used to run state government.
The buildings, one north ...
Forum to Upgrade MPI Standard
Posted on Dec 4th, 2007
A group of end users and computer scientists from universities, national laboratories, and industry has restarted the MPI Forum to update the decade-old Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for highly ...
Team Led by IU Wins Supercomputing Bandwidth Competition
Posted on Dec 4th, 2007
A team led by Indiana University, with partners from the Technische Universitaet Dresden, Rochester Institute of Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, was awarded first place ...
ORNL Highlights Accomplishments at SC07
Posted on Nov 9th, 2007
ORNL will once again be a major player at Supercomputing 2007 in Reno, Nev. The conference is the premier international symposium for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, and will ...
ORNL Scientist Leads Climate Report
Posted on Oct 19th, 2007
Wilbanks says now is time to figure out how to adapt to changes in energy needs
The first comprehensive look at the impact of climate change on U.S. energy use and ...