ORNL researchers using past to predict future climate extremes
Posted on Jun 20th, 2007
As viewers tune into Todd Howell for a look at weather through the next week, Oak Ridge National Library scientist Auroop Ganguly is looking for a more forward-looking forecast. ...
DOE Invites Research Proposals for INCITE Program
Posted on May 17th, 2007
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting proposals for innovative, large-scale computational science projects. Researchers will be able to use some of the world's most powerful supercomputers at ...
Alternative Fuel Update
Posted on May 17th, 2007
Automotive technology has seen great advancements recently in the areas of fuel efficiency, clean emissions and the development of light-weight materials. And while car companies and their supplier can take ...
Petascale Chemistry
Posted on May 11th, 2007
Petascale computing is rapidly approaching. The Department of Energy's Office of Science plans to install a computing system with a peak performance of one petaflop at Oak Ridge National ...
ORNL Gears Up for New Leadership Computing Systems
Posted on Apr 13th, 2007
Last week at the High Performance Computing and Communication Conference in Newport, Rhode Island, Doug Kothe gave an overview of leadership computing facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ...
ORNL Cray supercomputer doubles performance
Posted on Apr 11th, 2007
Science is the big winner as Oak Ridge National Laboratory's supercomputer has moved up in location and performance and is now the most powerful open scientific computing system in ...
Weather predictor: ORNL’s Climate Modeling May Reveal Future
Posted on Apr 9th, 2007
Most major scientific organizations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agree global warming is here.
They now face the next problem: predicting what will happen.
Current predictions are based on ...
ORNL’s ‘Jaguar’ Purring Perfectly
Posted on Apr 5th, 2007
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's revved-up "Jaguar" passed its 72-hour acceptance test with high marks, and the supercomputer now has a peak capability of 119 trillion calculations per second - or ...
Supercomputing Keys Fusion Research
Posted on Feb 16th, 2007
--A Conversation with Zhihong Lin by Leo Williams, ORNL for HPCwire
University of California, Irvine, physicist Zhihong Lin is at the forefront of fusion simulation, using Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) ...
INCITE Program Targets American Competitiveness
Posted on Feb 9th, 2007
In this exclusive HPCwire interview, Dr. Raymond Orbach, director of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science and the nation's first Under Secretary for Science, and ...