ORNL’s Jaguar to get speed upgrade
Posted on Oct 9th, 2007
OAK RIDGE — The Jaguar, second-fastest computer in the world according to a top 500 list released in late June, will get new processors by year’s end — more than ...
ORNL director discusses future challenges
Posted on Oct 9th, 2007
A crowd of Oak Ridge National Laboratory supporters, science buffs and interested citizens visited the American Museum of Science and Energy last Thursday night for ORNL Director Thom Mason's report ...
ORNL Gets New Supercomputer
Posted on Oct 1st, 2007
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has purchased its first IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer, Thomas Zacharia, the lab’s associate director for computing and computational sciences, confirmed to The Oak Ridger.
The low-power, ...
Scientists Unlock Secrets of Protein Folding
Posted on Sep 18th, 2007
A team led by biophysicist Jeremy Smith of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold ...
ORNL Supercomputers Keep Cool During Heat Wave
Posted on Aug 13th, 2007
As Mother Nature continues her experiment in East Tennesseans' heat tolerance, Oak Ridge National Laboratory might be the place to be.
Its computer room is cool as a cucumber.
"The work we ...
Oak Ridge selected for 2nd supercomputer
Posted on Aug 10th, 2007
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee took another quantum leap in the computing universe Wednesday with a decision by the National Science Board to underwrite a ...
UT in line to be among elite in supercomputing
Posted on Aug 9th, 2007
The University of Tennessee will receive one of the world's most powerful computers as part of a five-year, $65 million project to be funded by the National Science Foundation.
The NSF ...
Theoretical Breakthroughs that Have become Commercial Reality in Computer Hard Drives Recognised with Award
Posted on Aug 3rd, 2007
Japan's largest materials research institute presented its inaugural award for breakthroughs in materials science and technology to the director of The University of Alabama's MINT center.
The National Institute ...
ORNL Closes In On Petascale Computing
Posted on Jul 13th, 2007
As a Department of Energy leadership computing facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) employs some of some of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet. Buddy Bland, project director of ...
ORNL Supercomputer Rises to No. 2 Worldwide
Posted on Jun 27th, 2007
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Cray XT4 supercomputer, known as Jaguar, is now the second fastest system in the world, according to a semiannual list of the world's fastest ...